Category Archives: Book Obsession

September 19

Beautiful Books for Kids (and Adults, Too!)

I’m currently completing an MFA in Book Arts, so you can bet that I judge a book by its cover.  And binding.  And paper.  And overarching design.  I won’t refuse to read an aesthetically displeasing book (I have spent many hours over the course of my life with a Norton edition in my lap, after […]

Book-y Things

Like two other of my fellow Lettered Ladies, my research and teaching interests involve many aspects of Book Studies and Book Arts – publication history and medium, issues of authorship and readership, even variant book covers and title pages.  My students know me as the professor interested in “book-y things” (my own sophisticated, academic term). […]