As perhaps only the women in this class may be aware, the women’s bathroom on the third floor of the Cathedral of Learning has a stall filled with Harry Potter graffiti, and/or (I’ll argue later) marginalia — so, mixed genre … Continue reading →

…their traces struck me not as desecration but as potential sources of evidence. —William Sherman (Books & Readers in Early Modern England 123) 1 For this first story, I have nothing to show you.  This is a memory, brought round … Continue reading →

I’m not a marginalia person.  I don’t do it myself, and I don’t like seeing it by other people in my books.  So when I buy used books I flip through them first to make sure they’re clean.  Sometimes I … Continue reading →

This is belated, but here’s a guy who’s turning his facial hair into his own font: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/feb/23/man-turned-beard-alphabet-alphabeard

So, in anticipating all the very interesting marginalia next week, I thought I’d share a site that I’m rather in love with. http://readingmarksonreading.tumblr.com/ If you’re not familiar with him, David Markson (died at 82 in summer of 2010) was a … Continue reading →

Speaking of writers using materials in compelling ways, it just occurred to me that the Shelley Jackson currently making headlines (“Story in the Snow“) for her gorgeous snow project short story is the same woman responsible for the skin project! I remember yearning … Continue reading →

Testing…    

So…. At this point, I’ve spend about 4-6 hours on this. But I don’t have a finished product. My original idea for this signment was to create a variation on a “Dr. Seuss” font. When I was in high school, … Continue reading →

Worth a read   http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-comic-sans-asshole