Happy birthday to Dr Seuss!
(His real name was Theodor),
Today he’d turn one-hundred-and-six,
being born in nineteen-ought-four.
If you think he was only nonsense rhymes,
then boy are you in for a treat -
war-time posters, original art,
Dr. Seuss was really neat!
If you’ve a Seuss fan in your life,
impress the silly goose
by getting them a priceless gift,
unique and signed by Dr. Seuss!
Canadian poet P.K. Page has died at the age of 93, here in Victoria, BC. One of the biggest literary names in this literary town, she was was the winner of the Governor General’s Award for Poetry and author of more than 40 books.
Fans of classic 20th century American literature should check out our collectible Saul Bellow feature.
William J. Lederer, the former naval officer who co-wrote, The Ugly American – a novel blasted America’s foreign policy in Southeast Asia, ,died last month, reports the NY Times. He was 97
Ed Ruscha, famous for his pop art photography and photobooks such as Twenty-six Gasoline Stations and Every Building on the Sunset Strip, is back with a new book – this time he’s taken Jack Kerouac’s On The Road and added black and white images (his own and other people’s) to the original text.
The images “refer closely to the details and impressions that the author describes, from car parts to jazz instruments, from sandwich stacks to tire burns on a desert road.”
I can’t see anyone putting this version in their backpack and hitchhiking Route 66. This special version of On The Road is published by Gagosian Gallery and Steidl. It’s leather-bound with 228 pages, and the copies are signed and numbered by the artist in an edition of 350 and presented in a slip-case. If you have ask how much it costs then you can’t afford it. If you are a banker in Manhattan about to get your bonus, then you can afford it.
