"There's nothing quite so lovely as a brightly burning book." The Badger
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Fahrenheit 451 Cake
The good folk at the Library of the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) have recently hosted their third annual Edible Book Festival. Unheralded among the prize-winners (further proof that literary prizes are unreliable, in my opinion) was this entry by Klara Kim. I particularly like the two pocket-books of matches on the back of the truck.
I am a bookseller with Hordern House Rare Books in Sydney, Australia, where I first became interested in the culture of book burning while researching a catalogue of utopias and imaginary voyages. My first book, Burning Books, has been published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2008.
Together with Mark Tewfik, I am currently working on a picture book investigating the graffiti written on bombs during the Second World War.
1 comment:
Thanks! Coming across this post is far more rewarding than winning any of the prizes, heh.
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