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Gabriel García Márquez’s republic of letters

December 1, 2016 - Amy Brown

Rapi Diego's "El sapo hechizado" (1997). Photos by Pete Smith.

I have always loved to catalog presentation copies of books—those given as a gift from one person to another, usually with a signature or inscription. They represent a tiny piece of the people involved, and allow me to feel a connection to some of my favorite authors. Gabriel García Márquez’s library was no exception. [Read more…] about Gabriel García Márquez’s republic of letters

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Cataloging Tagged With: Alvaro Mutis, Amy Brown, Authors, Carlos Fuentes, catalog, El Sapo Hechizado, Eliseo Diego, Evidence, Fidel Castro, Gabo, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriel García Márquez presentation library, La Historia Me Absolverá, Latin America, literature, Orhan Pamuk, presentation book, presentation copy, presentation library, Richard Avedon, The Museum of Innocence

Taking note of the Kazuo Ishiguro archive

June 15, 2016 - Stephen Enniss

Ishiguro as singer-songwriter in his early twenties, Broadoak, Kent, 1977. Ishiguro still plays guitar-and a number of other instruments-and composed lyrics for jazz singer Stacey Kent in 2007.

As Kazuo Ishiguro was preparing his archive for transfer to the Harry Ransom Center, he spent weeks sifting through the papers, making notes about the manuscripts and other documents he found in it. [Read more…] about Taking note of the Kazuo Ishiguro archive

Filed Under: Authors Tagged With: An Artist of the Floating World, Authors, Kazuo Ishiguro, novelist, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The Unconsoled

African American artists and writers in the Limited Editions Club

March 16, 2016 - Peter Mears

Dean Mitchell (b. 1957). Illustration for Maya Angelou's "Music, Deep Rivers in my Soul" (2003). Copyright Dean Mitchell.

The stories I selected span three decades and show (Zora Neal) Hurston’s diversity in writing styles and subject matter. I created my illustrations from fragments of fabric, paper and faded photos. The layering of images, patterns and textures evoke the feeling of memory and old tales retold. So they become, like the stories, “Bookmarks in the Pages of Life.”—Betye Saar, artist’s afterword to Bookmarks in the Pages of Life [Read more…] about African American artists and writers in the Limited Editions Club

Filed Under: Art, Authors, Books + Manuscripts Tagged With: African-American, artists, Authors, Benny Andrews, Betye Saar, Dean Mitchell, Flannery O’Connor, George Macy, illustrators, Jacob Lawrence, Jazz, Limited Editions Club, literature, Maya Angelou, poetry, Richard Wright, Romare Bearden, serigraph, Sid Shiff, silkscreen

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