May 18, 2018
Matthew Zapruder is a poet, editor, translator, and professor. He earned a BA in Russian literature at Amherst College, an MA in Slavic languages and literature at the University of California, Berkeley, and an MFA in poetry at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
He is the author of several collections of...
May 14, 2018
Anita Engles is the Executive Director of the American Bookbinders Museum based in San Francisco, California. It's the only museum of its kind in North America celebrating and exploring the culture and tools of bookbinders and bookbinding from its earliest forms through the changes and innovations of the industrial...
May 7, 2018
Andrew Hoyem is the creative spirit of the Arion Press. He's a published poet and exhibited artist who occasionally includes his own writings and drawings in Arion books. The concepts for all Arion publications originate with Hoyem, who chooses literary texts, commissions new work from writers and artists he...
May 4, 2018
Kris Arnett is the proprietor of Kona Bay Books which is
located in Kona on the Big Island of Hawaii. She also owns
Hilo Bay
Books in, you guessed it, Hilo, which is located on the other side
of the Big Island of Hawaii.
I met with Kris recently at the Kona location to discuss bookstores. Among other things we talk...
Apr 30, 2018
David Bull is an ukiyo-e woodblock printer and carver who heads the Mokuhankan ukiyo-e studio in Asakusa, Tokyo. Born in Britain, Bull moved to Canada at age 5 and lived there until 1986 when he relocated with his family to Tokyo to pursue ukiyo-e. He first discovered Japanese woodblocks while browsing an art gallery...