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Gayle’s Top 5 Type Designers (before 1950)
Gayle Hendricks is the art director at Parisian Phoenix Publishing. So here we go, chronologically… My Five Favorite Typeface Designers, Before 1950. These are the old white European men that made me fall in love with typography. Trigger warning: Listing Eric Gill in 2026 is problematic. A 1989 biography published by Fiona MacCarthy…
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28 days unplugged
After a stressful term and a very busy book designing season I unplugged. Mostly. Last summer I decided I needed to get away from my regular life. … 28 days unplugged The entry shared here is a creative energy recap of our art director’s cruise to Iceland.
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Vampire Bridge (more on the history of Fashion and Fiends)
Last year, we released cosmic horror, Lovecraftian-with-hope novel Deadlights by Hugo Yelagin. He was in middle school when he started that novel. He published it at age 17. I was 16 the summer I wrote “Vampire Bridge.” And they say you should burn your first novel because it’s awful. I think, in many ways, I did…
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The Caper of the Missing Books
Last week, I ordered two new books: the latest edition of Jane Friedman’s The Business of Being a Writer and The Shell Game: Writers Play with Borrowed Forms edited by Kim Adrian. I could have gotten them four dollars cheaper from Amazon, and qualified for free shipping since it’s almost $50 in books, but I opted instead…
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Bookstore Review: Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, Pa.
Voted the Publisher Weekly’s Bookstore of the Year Today Eva and I visited Midtown Scholar Bookstore in Harrisburg, Pa, the state capital. I am headed to Washington D.C. to meet my friend M with whom I will travel to Dublin later this week. Eva is technically delivering me to D.C.…
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Meanwhile in South Bethlehem…
Some of the Parisian Phoenix authors attended the Southside Arts District’s Chili Fest in South Bethlehem, Pa. on October 18. Angel Ackerman, McKenna Graf, Dawn O’Harra, Larry Sceurman and Dianna Sinovic joined the chili trail at various locations to talk with people as they hopped from tasting to tasting. One of interns, Emily, came up from Eastern…
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Seventh Annual Easton Book Fest
The seventh annual Easton (Pa.) Book Festival (October 13-19) had delightful weather (and some crisp temperatures) and incorporated a variety of wonderful locations and interesting talks, panels and workshops. The people who organize the festival do a wonderful job of improving it every year and they have a keen sense…