gabrielle zevin writes

monday obsessions no. 4: The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman is just plain wonderful. 

monday obsessions no. 3: Another Earth. Loved the writing and the performances in this 2011 Sundance winner, which you can now see on DVD, etc. 

Monday Nostalgia #2: In high school, my friend Sam used to do all the moves to West Side Story at the same time we would watch it. Wonder what she’s up to these days? 

In other news, the bookplates went in the mail yesterday.

nevver:

“Easy, Action” - 50th Anniversary of West Side Story

Monday Nostalgia: Books used to be prettier. 

book-aesthete:

The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
C.S. Lewis. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1950.

First American edition, Custom designer leather binding. A fine copy.

Stated “First Printing” of the First American edition of this classic story for children. A custom designed binding, finely bound in full leather by Green Dragon Bindery. With marbled endpapers and portions of the original dust jacket bound in. Pages bright and clean with edges gold gilded. Titles to spine gilt. A beautiful production, with custom illustration engraved in cognac-brown leather, intended to evoke the image of the wardrobe in an early wood cabinet motif - with the witch and lion on the doors. Design plate included.

Two quotes I like from Emily Eakin’s New Yorker article about the Tacita Dean film/installation at the Tate Modern:

“All the things I’m attracted to are about to disappear,” she likes to say.

“For a long while almost everyone will continue to say ‘film’ when they are actually referring to something else,” Alexander Horwath, the director of the Austrian Film Museum, noted.

Photo Credit: Sarah Lee for the Guardian

I’ve been meaning to put this up for a while. I think this rejected jacket for THE IMPERFECTIONISTS is perfection and totally stet-worthy.

(via the NY Times super fun gallery of Book Covers That Got Away )

marinaesque:

Jim Henson

Burt, I believe. I love this photo. It reminds me of my dad and also of the Roger Scruton quote that ”The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation.”

electrickelp:

Tilda Swinton as Marchesa Casati

The best actresses understand that there are things in life to be other than pretty.

Love Tilda Swinton. Love this photo. My favorite movie I saw this year is I Am Love.

(via firsttimeuser)

hanscanosa:

RIP Lincoln Square B&N