Slog

News & Arts

Line Out

Music & the City
at Night

« End of the News of the World… | "They wonder why more people don't… »

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Books The Week of Book-Making Continues

Posted by Paul Constant on Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:47 PM

Yesterday, Matthew Stadler read from his book Chloe Jarren's La Cucaracha at the Sorrento Hotel. Tonight, he continues his weeklong residency at the Henry Art Gallery by giving a lecture titled “What Good Are Bookstores?” Stadler is the brains behind Portland-based publisher Publication Studio, and he's spent a lot of time thinking and talking about the life cycle of books. His views on bookstores have evolved over the last year or so, and I'm interested in hearing what he has to say about where they've going and what they should be doing. The lecture starts at 7 and it's free.

And! This Sunday, Publication Studio will be hosting a "Rebind Event" at the Henry, in which they will take your crumbling old well-loved paperback books and rebind them "into a sturdy new volume in standard manila folder covers." It'll cost seven bucks a book, and it should be fun to watch.

More information about both these events can be found in our readings calendar.

Comments (1) RSS

Oldest First Unregistered On Registered On Add a comment

FYI, my "week-long residency" is still actually Patricia No's and David Knowles's five-day residency at the Henry Art Gallery (through Sunday, July 10), and I'm still just here for last night's Sorrento event (thank you Michael Hebb, One Pot, and Vladimir Verano, Third Place Press) and tonight's talk at the Henry (thank you Jayme Yen for creating the whole summer of "Shelf Life" that brought me, Patricia, and David to Seattle).

Posted by Matthew Stadler on July 7, 2011 at 1:41 PM