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1905 - Albert Einstein publishes the article “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies“, where he introduces special relativity.

1936 – Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell published.

birthday boys
• 1685 - John Gay, English writer (d. 1732)
• 1908 – Winston Graham, English writer (d. 2003)
• 1911 – Czeslaw Milosz, Polish-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)

worth reading • from the WSJ opinion page “The Battle of the Books” Steinbeck, Joyce, Milne, King: Who owns the legacy of cultural giants?

naughty, nutty • Illinois officials have charged children’s author Charlotte Towner Graeber with providing “squalid and inhumane conditions” for more than two dozen pets. Guys – this is a mental disorder – it has little to do with anything ele.

mitzvah • Jacksonville, FL State University’s Books for Baghdad program will be shipping more than 19,000 books to Iraq today.

cookies • Author & Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist James B. Stewart, is the recipient of a Loeb award, the highest honor in business journalism.

site worth seeing • the Bond Market, cool website that focuses on collecting James Bond books. The first Cape edition of each book is shown and described in detail.

banktoaster • I kid you not, a periodic table of poetry with a poem for each element.

Specifications: About 160sf, 20’ x 10’ x 14’

The Concord plan has a porch, board-and-batten siding, a cathedral ceiling, stainless steel counter, refrigerator, and sink, a toilet retractile vanity and table, a cast-iron stove, a six gallon water heater, vented loft for two, a desk, more than 230 cubic feet of storage, a little daybed, a four burner range, and a tub.

In the Mulfinger plan the large kitchen has been shrunk to make space for a full-sized sleeping nook downstairs. With the nook, frequent trips to the loft become unnecessary.

Two other floor plans (not pictured here) incorporate a desk where the booth is.

1613 – The Globe Theatre in London, England burns to the ground.

full o’info • cool tools blog has a nifty post on digital library cards and cheap access to the digital librarys.

birthday boy • 1900 - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French pilot and writer (d. 1944)

essay • NPR’s James Marcus gives us a review of Ainadamar an opera about the death of Spanish writer Federico Garcia Lorca by Osvaldo Golijov

naughty • Baytown Texas woman arrested for one overdue library book. ouch!

neo-biblio • the NJ Star Ledger reports on hip-hop literature is also known as gangsta-lit. it don’t mean a thing if you ain’t got the bling, baby.

event • The 16th annual Twin Cities Bookfair — showcasing used books, especially rare and hard-to-find editions — will be held July 7 and 8 at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds.

event • the 2nd annual Harlem Book Fair Buffalo taking place on Saturday, July 8th from 11 am to 7 pm in downtown Buffalo, NY.

end of the road • Santa Ana, CA library puts its book mobile up on blocks.

banktoaster • Stan Zielinski over at Children’s Picture Book Price Guide has created a web page of the eighty-one Newbery award winning books with cover art or pictures from one of the illustrators. Glad to see someone ELSE is an inveterate list maker.

everything but the squeal • the pig who appears on Harper Collins reprint of Charlotte’s Web as Wilbur gets reprieved. “Wilbur may never know when he becomes a star,” farmer John L. Batey told a reporter after the pictures were taken. “Within a year, he’ll head to market.” Bet he regrets ever saying THAT.

22nd Rocky Mountain Book & Paper Fair

As co-coordinator of the Rocky Mountain Book and Paper Fair- August 4 & 5, 2006, I would like to invite the book community to attend our fair in Denver!

We have a great line-up of events, great exhibitors and quality items. Georgia Barnhill, Curator for the American Antiquarian Society and associated with the Ephemera Society of America will be our main speaker, addressing “Civil War Broadsides.” Exhibitors Rob Rulon-Miller and Jeffrey Marks will share stories of adventure and intrigue in the book world. Denver Bookbinding will be sponsoring a make-and-take event, and David Ashley Studio will sponsor the Book Arts League in providing demonstrations of a working letter press.

Please visit www.rmaba.org for more information.

If you would like a comp ticket, please contact me.

Hope to see you at the fair!
Pam

i bought my first moleskine today – i am not really a journal person, i can do pretty good with a spiral bound notebook, but something about stitched leaves that intimidates me. writing in a book is just so wrong – it’s against my nature. i spent a few hours on the net the other day studying the moleskine cult, which has grown by leaps and bounds in just a couple of years. i think the internet has a greenhouse effect on cults, fads and fetishes. indeed a viral effect as in ‘viral marketing’ and ‘viral video’ the number of sites with images of the insides of moleskines grows everyday. I can’t draw and almost never doodle. if i write something it’s usually a phase i hear that i want to steal- if i write prose i use the computer. i never could be productive with anything slower, i used to jam the keys on all my typewriters and my writing is now illegible. but i am going to try to fill the damn thing up – just to see if i can. watch me loose it.