November 2013 ~ reviveLaw

Después de la Muerte by Léon Denis or, A Super Brief Introduction to the Opportunity Cost of Rare Book Collecting

Apres la mort, Bay Psalm Book, Después de la Muerte, espiritismo, first book printed in North Americam Breve y mas compendiosa doctrina, Francisco I. Madero, Ignacio Mariscal, Leon Denis, spiritismNo comments

So I hear someone paid 14.165 million bucks (that is not a typo) for the Bay Psalm Book of 1640, the first book printed in North America-- in English, let's be sure to add, because the first book printed in North America was printed in Mexico City, almost 100 years earlier,...

Cyberflanerie: Selections from Gregory Gibson's Bookman's Log

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An especially fine blog has recently started blinking on my radar: Bookman's Log by Gregory Gibson, author (Hubert's Freaks, among others) and rare book dealer with Ten Pound Island Books. A few favorite posts (in no particular order):The House CallPeople Who Have It WorseWiley...

John Tutino's MAKING A NEW WORLD: FOUNDING CAPITALISM IN THE BAJIO AND SPANISH NORTH AMERICA

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Just out in Literal 34, 2013, my double review of:MAKING A NEW WORLD: FOUNDING CAPITALISM IN THE BAJIO AND SPANISH NORTH AMERICABy John TutinoDuke University Press, 2011ISBN 978-0-8223-4989-1MEXICO AND THE MEXICANS IN THE MAKING OF THE UNITED STATESEdited by John TutinoUniversity...

The Animal Communicator

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Watch the whole fascinating and beautifully filmed documentary by Craig Foster, featuring Anna Breytenbach, at Culture Unplugg...

Cyberflanerie: Outré Amusements Edition

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sweethoots on etsy.comSweethoots: hatmaker to the pugs. Yes. Yes!What to do with the selfies? (Don't give one to the Hexen Meisters, however.)Scatological incident over the Bermunda Triangle, no less. (Very amusing).Dig the wrapping paper concept: For when you're feeling...

Cyberflanerie: Kid Lit Edition by Mary Lynn Patton

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Mary Lynn PattonMy Tepoztlan amiga Mary Lynn Patton offers another guest-blog, this one her report on the recent Kid-Lit jamboree in Austin, Texas:The Kid’s Lit Conference was held in Austin, Texas on November 8 & 9, 2013 with keynote speaker Cynthia Leitich Smith of the...

Cyberflanerie: Internet Book Shopping Edition

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The Norton Book SofaOctober and November were intense... no more books for me, Santa, but oh, do I want some of these Brodart book covers... (Why didn't I start buying and using them sooner?!?!)The Norton book sofa: perfect for rare book collectors.So whimsical: KnobCreek...

Cyberflanerie: Miscellaneous Neat Stuff Edition

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Write Your Own Academic SentenceApparently the latest mind-blower is an Interactive Dynamic Shape Display.Those British pod-like self-driving thingies. (Once again, hat tip to Marginal Revolution).Who would have thought? A major Mexico collection in Hawaii.Wordoid a creative...

Self-Publishing for all the Right Reasons (Reporting on The Writer's Center's "Publish Now!" Seminar)

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Last month I gave a talk for the Writer's Center's "Publish Now! digital publishing seminar-- such a hoppin' topic that it sold out before I could even alert my own writer friends and workshop students. Unlike how-to-get-published conferences of yore, which inevitably featured...

Cyberflanerie: John Waters Appreciation Issue

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I just look at him and want to laugh-- with him. He's a sort of Edgar Allen Poe x David Byrne x Ichabod Crane x Andy Warhol x Diane Vreeland (if she ever had anything to do with Baltimore)-- beyond brilliant. Not that I relish the movies (the few I've watched seemed to me wince-worthy,...

Cyberflanerie: Reality Can Be Play-Do Edition

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Terminal Cancer Patients Not.Ninety is the new... wow!Award-winning young adult writer Randall Platt offers her bodacious tips for supersonic creativity.Reality shifter Cynthia Sue Larson's new book is about Quantum Jumping.You thought capitalism originated in English and North America? Uyy, quizá que no.Femme et Fleur goes inside the art inspired...