The Picador Book Room

Bookmarked: Pages Being Shared in the Picador Office

Elizabeth gives you literary Legos! (Spoiler alert: They are super awesome times the biggest number ever.) 

While enjoying her staycation, Gabrielle came across a mashup of Daft Punk’s new single, “Get Lucky,” and Soul Train. It speaks for itself. 

Daniel enjoyed Bret Easton Ellis’ AMA on Reddit, and finally got around to Steven Soderbergh’s takedown of the current state of filmmaking in his keynote at the San Francisco International Film Festival.

We hope your weekend reading is a little lighter than these book bricks!

[via: Changing Hands Bookstore]

Michael Chabon on his ideal book shelf:

“Your style is still going to be constructed out of the material that you have inherited, but it’s going to be put together in some way that has, hopefully, never quite been heard before.”

For more portraits of famous creators through the spines of their favorite books, click here.

[Photo courtesy of Brain Pickings.]

Oh, we can see our office!

Follow Brooklyn-based illustrator James Gulliver Hancock as he attempts to draw all the buildings in New York.

THIS American bookshelf.

Bookmarked: Pages Being Shared in the Picador Office

Angela is spellbound by NYC-based illustrator Jensine Eckwall’s etchings of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar. She is, she is, she is.

“The first time I was ever published in a book was 1997. It was because I’d found Roger Ebert’s email and asked him a question.” Peter is reading the surprisingly affecting elegy to Roger Ebert by a film critic who had had a very unique and complicated relationship with him when he was coming up.

Photographer Nick Laham shot locker room bathroom Instagram portraits of the New York Yankees players with his iPhone. Yes, Henry is a bit jealous. 

Gabrielle came across the photo series “Blocks,” by photographer Fabien Nissels on Laughing Squid, and thought it was just the right amount of absurd for a Friday afternoon. 

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“The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.”—Susan Sontag