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In the shack with Robert Caro
He bought the prefab shack, he says, from a place in Riverhead for $2,300, after a contractor quoted him a comically overstuffed Hamptons price to build one. “Thirty years, and it’s never leaked,” he says. This particular shed was a floor sample, bought because he wanted it delivered right away. The business’s owner demurred. “So I said the following thing, which is always the magic words with people who work: ‘I can’t lose the days.’ She gets up, sort of pads back around the corner, and I hear her calling someone … and she comes back and she says, ‘You can have it tomorrow.’”
Caro first composes in longhand, then types up everything triple-spaced, with a carbon copy, in the old newspaper manner. He insists on cotton rather than synthetic typewriter ribbons, because the letters come out inkier and darker, but they’re no longer in regular production. “Ina found somebody out in either Pittsburgh or Cleveland who said that he’d make the cotton ribbons for me if I ordered, I think, a dozen gross, which — I have enough typewriter ribbons to support the entire …” He laughs, breaking off the thought.
That Caro’s work is still done on paper, with no digital backup to speak of, marks him as one of the last of his kind. (He had never seen a Google doc until I offered to show him one. He was mildly startled to discover that, in a shared document, the person on the other end can be seen typing in real time: “That’s amazing. What’s it called? A doc?”)
In Working, Caro writes:
I can’t start writing a book until I’ve thought it through and can see it whole in my mind. So before I start writing, I boil the book down to three paragraphs, or two, or one—that’s when it comes into view. That process might take weeks. And then I turn those paragraphs into an outline of the whole book. That’s what you see up here on my wall now—twenty-seven typewritten pages. That’s the fifth volume. Then, with the whole book in mind, I go chapter by chapter. I sit down at the typewriter and type an outline of that chapter, let’s say if it’s a long chapter, seven pages—it’s really the chapter in brief, without any of the supporting evidence. Then, each chapter gets a notebook, which I fill with all the materials I want to use—quotations and facts pulled from all of the research I’ve done.
See also: Robert Caro's corkboard
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Description: JON O. BRUBAKER (1875-?) BOOK WEEK. 1925. 21 1/4x13 1/4 inches, 54x33 3/4 cm. Condition B+: minor creases and restoration in margins and image; sharp crease in central image; minor repaired tears at edges; repaired pin holes in corners. "In 1919, at the urging of Franklin K. Mathiews, librarian of the Boy Scouts of America, Book Week was introduced to focus attention on the need for quality children's books and the importance of childhood literacy" (http://www.cbcbooks.org/about/history.html). The poster for the first year, designed by Jessie Wilcox Smith, was reused through 1924, when the artist designed a second image. In 1925, Brubaker designed this image, which was also used in 1926. Brubaker also did work for the New York Central Lines. He was awarded the Art Directors Club gold medal for poster design for this image. Modern American 33, Book Week p. 5.
I have a new book out! The Art and Life of Charles M. Schulz in 100 Objects
I have a new book out! The Art and Life of Charles M. Schulz in 100 Objects
Charles M. Schulz: The Art and Life of the Peanuts Creator in 100 Objects It’s hard to believe, but I had a book come out on November 1st! You can get it anywhere good books are sold, but if you buy it from the Charles M. Schulz Museum, it will be signed by none other than Jean Schulz! Working with Jeannie on the book was a very special experience. I get to work with her quite a bit developing…
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Book Review: -- The Pigeon Tunnel by John Le Carre
Great Openings by James Crumley
The burning of the Los Angeles Public Library in 1986 was a much more complicated story than I had expected ....
A Postage Stamp for Jason Polan (Click through to see more proposed desings)
19 Antique Mechanical Pencil Sharpeners
1) Stile Craft, St. Louis. Electro-Pointer, c. 1930, bakelite, early electric model, with container. - 2) Unmarked, book-shaped, electric. - 3) Japan. 2 x Eagle, c. 1960, in coffee-grinder form, with containers. - 4) Eberhard Faber, New York. Lakeside, c. 1910, without container. - 5) Chicago. Dandy, c. 1920, with container. - 6) Dietzgen, c. 1930, cast metal, with container. - 7) Boston. Graffco, c. 1930, without container. - 8) Chicago. Dexter No. 2, c. 1925, with container. - 9) Reading, USA. Star Lead Pencil Sharpener, c. 1905, with case. - 10) Woollens. J.B. Ellison & Son, c. 1910, cast metal. - 11) Hunt Pen Co., USA. Ever Handy, c. 1920, complete. - 12) Japan. Elm F, c. 1950. - 13) New York. US Automatic Pencil Sharpener, c. 1915, with container. - 14) New York. One Handy Pencil Sharpener, cast metal, c. 1905, with box. - 15) Boston. Eagle Turquoise 17, c. 1960. - 16) Japan. Empress, c. 1925. - 17) New York. Koh-I-Noor, c. 1918. - And: 18) USA. Perfect Pencil Pointer, c. 1895, wood. - In addition: Evalast Pencil Pointer, c. 1950, complete display card containing a dozen metal pencil sharpeners, framed.
Travis Typewriter, 1905
Serial no. 4! Extremely rare American typewheel machine, 1896 patented by William H. Travis, produced for a short time only - approx. 6 months - by the Philadelphia Typewriter Co. - Literature: P. Lippman, "American Typewriters", p. 207. - A great rarity!
