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Nerd Porn: Design nerds discuss the form of the book

On January 27, 2012 By Margarita Korol

Sunday Stories: “Baby Girl”

On November 20, 2011 By Margarita Korol

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Nerd Porn: Alvin Lustig’s New Directions design

On September 8, 2011 By Margarita Korol

Posted by Margarita Korol If you are a person of the Nerd Porn persuasion, then you are surely familiar with the work, if not the name of Alvin Lustig. His holistic graphic design graced the titles of New Directions publications in the 50s and supplied the iconic modernist look that sums up the decadence your mind is yet to consume in the pages within. New Directions Publishing, the folks that introduced Delmore Schwartz and brought back The Great Gatsby (among a tremendous array of other calls to fame), have come out with new editions this season that will tickle [...]
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Nerd Porn: Sleeping with Pynchon

On July 12, 2011 By Margarita Korol

Posted by Margarita Korol Consider yourself Pierce Inverarity: Thomas Pynchon’s late real estate tycoon who would jump on this juicy opportunity to own prime digs. According to the LA Times (and trumpeted our way by the official Tumblr for Writers’ Houses), “A Manhattan Beach duplex said to be the former home of author Thomas Pynchon is accepting back-up offers.” Can you imagine the kinds of postmodern nerd porn fantasies you could realize in that pad?
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Nerd Porn: Crime and Punishment on the A train

On June 20, 2011 By Margarita Korol

Posted by Margarita Korol
I watched a girl begin a crisp Crime and Punishment today on the A train. I’m sure she picked it up because the cover matched her post-Memorial Day outfit. I silently wished her luck through the utter suffering she would experience if her attention to aesthetics transferred to the 565 pages of angst she got herself into.
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Literary Trading Cards: Phillip Roth

On May 20, 2011 By Margarita Korol

Posted by Margarita Korol

This one is dedicated to Carmen Callil. She is more than welcome to print this out, sit on it, and shoot us an e-mail letting us know if it makes her feel any better. (If you haven’t been paying attention to the Man Booker “drama,” you probably have to click on “sit on it” for that to make much sense.)

Congrats to Mr. Roth on his big win.

(If you’d like, you can buy this print here)
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Literary Trading Cards #3: Happy Birthday, Mickey Spillane

On March 11, 2011 By Margarita Korol

Posted by Margarita Korol

This week we celebrate the birthday of the man who gave us some of the greatest crime novels ever, Mickey Spillane.

Want to buy an 11×17 print of this week’s card? Go here.
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Literary Trading Cards: Mailer, Royko, Parker and Hunter S. Share a Drink

On March 4, 2011 By Margarita Korol

We liked hearing Gay Talese talk about all the drinking and partying that used to go on at The New York Times, that this week’s literary trading card is dedicated to four of our favorite writers who probably spent as much time with their bartender as they did their editor.

From left to right: Dorothy Parker, Mike Royko, Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer.

Want a copy? Buy it here.

(All art by Margarita Korol)
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