Category Archives: Booklore

Entries and posts that relate to the creation or consumption of books

from Image to Story

Posted on April 11, 2008 by Francois Lachance

images “not surrounded by columns of type but framed on a blank wall or as here in a book” writes Richard Boston in the foreward to The Guardian Country Diary Drawings by Clifford Harper (2003, Agraphia Press) acquire a “narrative … Continue reading →

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Insight, typographic and otherwise

Posted on April 8, 2008 by Francois Lachance

Robert Bringhurst The slash, like the dash, is more various in real life than it is on the typewriter keyboard. The Elements of Typographic Style And so for day 482 08.04.2008

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Times

Posted on March 31, 2008 by Francois Lachance

Susan Stewart from On Longing The simultaneity of the printed word lends the book its material aura; as an object it has a life of its own, a life outside human time, the time of the body and its voice. … Continue reading →

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Of Time and Space and Art

Posted on January 17, 2008 by Francois Lachance

Robert Wilson’s CIVIL warS : Drawings, Models, and Documentation “Selected Storyboard Drawings and Descriptive Texts for the CIVIL warS” Act IIC Knee Play 6 Doors open very slowly to reveal two large cliffs. Between cliffs, a small boat carrying a … Continue reading →

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From Blackboard to Book and Beyond

Posted on January 10, 2008 by Francois Lachance

D.F. McKenzie. in text first published in 1984 and collected in Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts proposes: Only as its memory systems have grown has the computer changed its nature from blackboard to book. It has at long last … Continue reading →

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Key as poem

Posted on January 9, 2008 by Francois Lachance

From The Observer’s Book of Furniture by John Woodforde, a bit of found poetry. It’s the key to the wood grains illustrated on the endpapers. And so for day 392 09.01.2008

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Image Machine Book

Posted on December 26, 2007 by Francois Lachance

No pagination. No one expects a graphic novel to be quoted. Pagination would ruin the layout and design. Coach House Books is reissuing The Cage by Martin Vaughn-James. The disposition of the pages is important not only to the images … Continue reading →

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Cross-Referencing the Competition

Posted on December 17, 2007 by Francois Lachance

David Trinidad has a section near the end of “Essay with Moveable Parts” (collected in Plasticville) which converts the author into a doll which in a piece devoted to commenting on collections of Barbies and Troll Dolls is not surprising … Continue reading →

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Gathering Flowers

Posted on December 8, 2007 by Francois Lachance

Its etymology partakes of the botanical. Its practice, of specimen gathering. Who cares why? Michael McFee in “Anthologizing” (Epoch, Volume 62, Number 1 – 2013) does. One of Robert Pinsky’s excellent pieces of advice for young writers is: “Make your … Continue reading →

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Micro-Pangs

Posted on November 27, 2007 by Francois Lachance

The one side of the layout is a micro-narrative. On the other side is a brief sartorial description and a note about what the spotted person is reading. At times the micro-narraitve offers a pastiche of what the spotted person … Continue reading →

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