I ran across these photos and story of the Detroit Public Schools Book Depository on a few blogs last week. The photos have gotten every comment from “how beautiful” to “I can’t believe some @#$%&! would let this happen”.
Basically it’s a huge building of books that have just been left to rot. It’s all really kind of depressing. All the photos are here while the post explaining why and who forgot about all these books is here. How sad.
Chip Kidd’s new book The Lerners hits stores on the 19th. This sophmore effort follows 2001’s The Cheesemonkeys.
If you’re wondering if you’d like to pick this one up you can check out the serialized version before buying.
Birmingham’s southside is home to a new used bookstore. Greencup Books is holding its official “grand opening” this Friday night. The doors open at 2pm with a reading/signing by Tony Crunk and artist Peter Wilm. They will be signing their joint publishing project Stories from Real Life.
Greencup Books sells mainly used books culled from collections and sales all over the South East. But there are a few new titles on hand too. Some from their own small-press imprint Absnth Inc. So that’s pretty cool too.
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This weekend is the Vestavia Hills Library’s Super Duper Book Sale. It goes all the way till Tuesday, but they started carting out books by the box-full tonight.
Happy hunting! If you’re in town it’s well worth the trip (even on a lunch break next week)!
