San Francisco Public Library card — Read Design by Wing, 4th Grade (by Far Out City)
San Francisco Public Library card — Read Design by Wing, 4th Grade (by Far Out City)
—R. David Lankes weighs in on the “Libraries Are Obsolete” debate hosted at Harvard (via thelifeguardlibrarian)
(via bookoisseur)
Yes.
Weapon of Mass Instruction
Built from a welded frame atop a 1979 Ford Falcon, Raul Lemesoff drives around the streets of Buenos Aires distributing free books to anybody who wants to be assaulted with some serious learnin’.
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Peter Sellers reads.
Marjane Satrapi reads. Drawing by Marjane Satrapi.
Jimmy Stewart reads.
Comic book artist Guy Delisle spent a year living in Jerusalem, where he observed the heady cocktail of religion, paranoia, and faith that makes the country such a beguiling place. From the summer of 2008 to 2009, Delisle’s wife, Nadège, worked in Palestine as an administrator for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), while Delisle explored his new city.
Like in his three previous graphic novels about Shenzhen, China; Pyongyang, North Korea; and Burma; Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City offers a series of vignettes illustrating the personal frustrations and small victories of daily life in a foreign land: searching for booze in a Muslim supermarket, trying to outsmart Ben Gourion airport’s legendary security screenings, or stumbling upon a quiet and secluded monastery. Foreign Policy has an exclusive excerpt of the book, which comes out in the United States on April 24. In the excerpt below, Delisle loses himself in Jerusalem’s Old City. (via Jerusalem: This Year in a Comic Book - By Guy Delisle | Foreign Policy)
We are so excited to host the launch of Jerusalem with Guy Delisle, Drawn & Quarterly, and Desert Island on Tuesday, April 24.
Roland Barthes reads.