Sunday, September 28, 2025
David Levine on writers: William Burroughs
David Levine (1926-2009) was one of America’s most prominent illustrators during a career that spanned decades. No less an authority than Jules Feiffer described him as "the greatest caricaturist of the last half of the 20th century,” although Levine continued to work in the early years of this century as well. Levine’s subjects included himself (above) and people from many walks of life. Authors, scribes and scribblers were a big part of the mix, as these caricatures make clear.
Saturday, September 27, 2025
The Biblio File: images of bookmarks, for bibliophiles
And you read your Emily Dickinson
And I my Robert Frost
And we note our place with book markers
That measure what we've lost
And I my Robert Frost
And we note our place with book markers
That measure what we've lost
David Levine on writers: Joseph Heller
David Levine (1926-2009) was one of America’s most prominent illustrators during a career that spanned decades. No less an authority than Jules Feiffer described him as "the greatest caricaturist of the last half of the 20th century,” although Levine continued to work in the early years of this century as well. Levine’s subjects included himself (above) and people from many walks of life. Authors, scribes and scribblers were a big part of the mix, as these caricatures make clear.
First Lines: Erskine Caldwell
Lov Bensey trudged homeward through the deep white sand of the gully-washed tobacco road with a sack of winter turnips on his back.
Tobacco Road
Erskine Caldwell
"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on September 27
Louis Auchincloss (1917)
Grazia Deledda (1871)
William Empson (1906)
Joyce Johnson (1935)
Irvine Welsh (1958)
Kay Ryan (1945)
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