Are you searching for a book for that hard-to-please person on your holiday gift list? To help you narrow down your choices here are a few recommendations of recent books by a number of writers who visited the Writers Institute in 2013. The list represents different genres and subject matter that should appeal to a wide range of tastes and interests. And while you are looking for that special gift for someone else, you just may find something for yourself....
More: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/wiholidaylist13.html
Showing posts with label holidays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label holidays. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Writers Institute Holiday Book List
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Books as Art Objects
The New York Times has an article about how, in an age of e-books, publishers are attempting to sell physical books as giftable, displayable art objects, much as they were a century ago.
"If e-books are about ease and expedience, the publishers reason, then print books need to be about physical beauty and the pleasures of owning, not just reading." More.
The article also makes mention of the "deep red endpapers" of Dava Sobel's new book on Copernicus, A More Perfect Heaven.
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