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Typographic Wonderland 5

I married into this book, just one of many. A brief excerpt: What became of the gallants all? What became of the feats and deeds that were done by them? The jousts and the tournaments, the trappings, and the broideries, and the plumes, were they vanity alone, no more than springtime leaves Of the gardens? … What became of that singing, and the burden the music bore? What... Read More

The Green Corn Rebellion: Initial Impressions

Thus we find ourselves at the second Trefoil Book Review, for which I have selected The Green Corn Rebellion by William Cunningham, a fellow native of the 46th state. The book was published in 1935, though it describes a fictionalized account of events that took place in August 1917 in Seminole County, Oklahoma. Whipped up by a mixture of class injustice and Socialist politics,... Read More

Typographic Wonderland 4

Saturday Night. “Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.” -Ogden Nash  Read More →

Typographic Wonderland 3

Saturday Morning. “Between an optimist and pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut, the pessimist the hole!” - Oscar Wilde  Read More →

Studio Detail

My special Ora et Labora et Zombies paper stock (Strathmore 24lb writing wove, complete with custom watermark).  Read More →

In the Suicide’s Library: Conclusions

Tim Bowling’s bibliophilic journey both begins and ends on the Golden Gate Bridge, and many of the actions and ruminations of the opening chapters (talk of volcanoes, fish, finding the book, and games afoot) are repeated in the closing chapters, like echoes. This strange symmetry lead me briefly to suspect that Bowling wrote the book as a kind of thematic palindrome.... Read More

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