Lower East Side Librarian

The Lower East Side Librarian Reading Log is also coming soon to a mailbox near you. The reading log is part of the Winter Solstice Shout Out and also a standalone publication that mostly goes to family members instead of the Shout Out, and when I'm especially neurotic, to friends, as well.

It's reviews/descriptions of all the books I've read between December 2006 and December 2007. ...

The Christian Science Monitor has a nice article about the endurance of print zines that quotes zine friends, librarian friends, friend friends, zine acquaintances, and me. "Wanted: pen, plain old paper, imagination," by Danielle Dreilinger. ...

Basically I already wrote up the whole thing on Zine Librarians, but just in case you don't happen to already have that blog in your feed reader...Zine Reviews are coming to Library Journal! In March! Yay!!!!!!!! ...

Here's another book recommendation. Stephanie McMillan, a cartoon artist whose work I admire, has illustrated a graphic novel called As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial by Derrick Jensen that I bet will be kinda yummy. ...

Katie Haegele, whose zine I quoted in an earlier post, wrote an article in The Philadelphia Inquirer about using LibraryThing to catalog zines. She also gets a little bit into the social networking attributes of the project. ...

Part of the Multiple Interpretations: Contemporary Prints in Portfolio at The New York Public Library is a series of doctored mug shots of GWB and some of his cronies. Here's a gallery of the "controversial photos" from the NY Daily News....