Daily Heller Newsletter on Bookjackets of Milton Glaser

Literary critic Kingsley Amis' New Maps of Hell: A Survey of Science Fiction (1960) is an analysis of the use of science fiction to address the issues emerging in modern society from the 18th-20th centuries, including topics as rampant as utopian and dystopian literature.

The jacket, which seems inspired by the wit of Paul Klee and Joan Miro, defies what most people think of Milton Glaser's work as seen in the late '60s until the present. Yet over 50 years ago he was experimenting with various modern and Modernist forms like this, this, this and this, some type-based and others that magical blend that Push Pin Studios did so well. The typeface used even made a return a half decade later in New York Magazine.

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100-year-old theatre converted into bookshop Buenos Aires, Argentina

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In a world where you can order used books for 2p from Amazon and get them to your door the next day, it's a magical thing when people get excited about a bookshop.

Because bookshops bring people together in a shared love of reading. They let you aimlessly browse, bringing you books you may never have otherwise discovered. They're soothing places where book-lovers go to feel restored.

Which is all glorious in itself, and true of even the humblest, tiniest second-hand bookshop around the corner.

But this particular bookshop is something special.

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El Ateneo Grand Splendid Bookstore is a bookshop in Buenos Aires, Argentina (which is home to a total of 734 bookshops, if you needed a reason to visit).

It's super fancy because it used to be a theatre, then a cinema, then in 2000 it was reformed by architect Fernando Manzone, who turned it into a bookshop.

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Fernando kept the ceiling, the stage curtains, and all the other incredible design details of the theatre, and just added cosy reading areas and comfy sofas.

Oh, and books. Lots of books.

Floors and floors filled with shelves and shelves of books, stacked on balconies with views of the stage. It's incredible.

In short, we need to visit this bookshop. We'd quite like to live there forever, actually.

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Take us there.

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Poetry and Souvenirs of the Lost in WW1

 Ruins 

 

As you walk past these quiet ruins, 

Never ruined but fallen into disrepair, 

Tattered flags and Symbols represented there 

There'll be no sound, no indication; 

Of the battle that was fought, 

The echo of the horses hooves, 

The booty that they sought. 

 

Only because its hard to tell 

The shape that these things would take, 

The Time  long past, the battle fast 

And many the years to wait 

 

Till discovery; till Now; 

A poppyfield in full  bloom 

No fallen men, 

No ammunition, 

No trenches to be found; 

 

Evolved and eroded, 

The Past may have exploded 

But now all corners worn down, 

The shapes resume smoothness, 

Just tatters to prove this 

Was ever a country well-won 

Or protected. 

(From "Rice Paper Dreams", copyright Andrea Midas)

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