The Carlos Museum Bookshop: Books About Books
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The Carlos Museum Bookshop: Books about Books HOW TO ORDER NEW THIS WEEK NEW THIS WEEK Please email your request and/or general ques- 100 Books That Classic Paperbacks tions with your shipping address and phone Changed the World notecards number to Bookshop Manager Mark Burell at [email protected], and you will receive a call to process your order. Most orders for books in stock will be shipped within five business days. If a book is temporarily sold out, it may take longer to fulfill orders due to current shipping delays, but orders will be processed as quickly as possible. Free curbside pickup options are now avail- able three days a week by appointment. If you are unable to come by for pickup, we Beautifully illustrated in can sometimes deliver for free to local ad- full color, this sweeping Every book lover’s col- dresses within a four mile radius of the museum. chronological survey lection includes a few highlights the most treasured favorites with important books from frayed edges and covers Click HERE for lists of great books for coping around the globe from soft from wear. Rich- with crisis, books of world folktales and my- the earliest illuminated ard Baker’s remarkable thology, and books for adults and kids. manuscripts all the way paintings of vintage to the digital age. Includ- paperback books capture Remember, all purchases support the Carlos ed are such well-known these intimate details. He Museum, so stock up today! classics as the Odyssey, started painting dog- the Torah, Shakespeare’s eared copies of vintage First Folio, Moby Dick, paperbacks several years and Darwin’s On the ago and prowled used Support the museum with the Origins of Species, but bookstores in search of an array of other works, appropriately careworn purchase of a Bookshop gift card some well-known and paperbacks to immor- others less so, are fea- talize in his gouache Let your friends know you’re thinking tured as well, including portraits: “No precious of them with a gift card to one of Atlanta’s those by Sun Tzu, Co- first editions, no rare pernicus, Mary Woll- things—just your com- most inventively curated bookstores, stonecraft, Thoreau, Karl mon companions.” The or purchase one for yourself in support Marx, Sigmund Freud, “book portraits” in this Proust, and Kafka as well set feature titles by some of the Carlos Museum and in anticipa- as more recent works by of the most iconic writers tion of leisurely browsing. J.K. Rowling, Art Spiegel- of the modern era, from man, and Naomi Klein. Emily Dickinson and Mark $29.95, hardcover. Twain to George Or- Available in denominations of $25 well and Susan Sontag. and $50. $16.95, boxed notecards. NEW THIS WEEK NEW THIS WEEK Rereadings: Seven- Ex Libris: Confessions Breaking Bread with Penguin Science Fiction teen Writers Revisit of a Common Reader the Dead: A Reader’s Postcards: 100 Book Books They Love Guide to a More Covers in One Box Tranquil Mind Anne Fadiman is (by her own admission) the sort Is a book the same of person who learned book—or a reader the about sex from her Exploring the weird, won- same reader—the sec- New this fall! The title father’s copy of Fanny derful world of science ond time around? The comes from Auden, who Hill, whose husband buys fiction cover art, this 17 authors in this witty wrote that “art is our her 19 pounds of dusty huge set includes clas- and poignant collection chief means of breaking books for her birthday, sic images from books of essays all agree on the bread with the dead.” As and who once found by the likes of H.G. answer: never. Reread- we battle too much infor- herself poring over her Wells, Aldous Huxley, ings reveals at least as mation today, with algo- roommate’s 1974 Toyota J.G. Ballard, Philip K. much about the reader as rithms aimed at shaping Corolla manual because Dick, Kurt Vonnegut, about the book: each es- our every thought and it was the only written and Ray Bradbury as well say is a miniature memoir a tendancy to surround material in the apartment as celebrating images that focuses on that most ourselves only with what that she had not read at from delightfully pulpy interesting of topics, the we know and what brings least twice. This witty col- cult classics. Inspired protean nature of love. us instant comfort, author lection of essays recounts by surrealism and pop And as every bibliophile Alan Jacobs suggests a lifelong love affair with art, the postcards in this knows, no love is more the opposite: to be in books and language. For collection will appeal to life-changing than the conversation with, and Fadiman, as for many legions of sci-fi devotees love of a book. $15, pa- challenged by, voices passionate readers, the and design fans alike. perback. from the past. What can books she loves have $25, boxed postcards. Homer teach us about become chapters in her force? How does Fred- own life story. $14, pa- erick Douglass deal with perback. the massive blind spots of America’s Founding Fathers? How can Ursula K. Le Guin show us truths about Virgil’s female characters that Virgil himself could never have seen? Other touchstones include Ibsen, Rhys, Wharton, Ghosh, Calvi- no, and many more. $25, hardcover. The Book: A Cover-To- The Letter & the Browse: Love Letters Remarkable Books: Cover Exploration of Cosmos: How the to Bookshops Around The World’s Most the Most Powerful Alphabet Has Shaped the World Historic and Significant Object of Our Time the Western View of Works the World This unique encyclopedia spanning the history of A cabinet of curiosi- the written word, from ties, a time machine, a Houston reveals that the 3,000 BC to the modern treasure trove—we love paper, ink, thread, glue, day, shows the evolution From our first ABCs to bookshops because they and board from which a of human knowledge the Bible’s statement possess a unique kind of book is made tell as rich and the changing ways in that Jesus is “the Alpha magic. UK literary critic a story as the words on which books are made. and Omega,” we see Henry Hitchings asks its pages—of civilizations, Discover some of the the world through our 15 writers from around empires, human ingenu- most influential books in- letters. Here the author the world to reveal their ity, and madness. In an cluding the Mahabharata, probes the alphabet’s favorite bookshops. Each invitingly tactile history Shakespeare’s First Folio, influence in Western conjuring a specific time of this 2,000-year-old Darwin’s groundbreaking history, showing how it and place, these inquis- medium, Houston fol- On the Origin of Spe- has served as a lens for itive, enchanting pieces lows the development cies, The Diary of Anne conceptualizing the cos- are a collective celebra- of writing, printing, the Frank, and Penguin’s mos and how the cosmos tion of bookshops for art of illustrations, and first ever paperbacks. has been perceived as anyone who has ever fall- binding to show how we This lavishly illustrated, a kind of alphabet itself. en under their spell. Con- have moved from cunei- coffee table-worthy book The Letter & the Cosmos tributors include Michael form tablets and papyrus is wrapped in a textured is a sharp and entertain- Dirda, Daniel Kehlmann, scrolls to the hardcovers jacket with gold foil, ing examination of how Yiyun Li, Pankaj Mish- and paperbacks of today. making it a great gift for languages, letterforms, ra, Yvonne Adhiambo $29.95, hardcover. those with an interest in orthography, and writing Owuor, Elif Shafak, Iain literature, art, and de- tools have reflected our Sinclair, Ali Smith, and sign. $30, hardcover. hidden obsession with Juan Gabriel Vásquez. the alphabet. $27.95, $16.95, paperback. paperback. Meetings with Every Word Is a Bird How to Read a Book Proust and the Squid: Remarkable We Teach to Sing: The Story and Science Manuscripts: Twelve Encounters with the of the Reading Brain Journeys into the Mysteries and Medieval World Meanings of Language FIRST, FIND A TREE—A BLACK TUPELO OR DAWN REDWOOD WILL DO—AND PLANT YOUR- SELF. IT’S OKAY IF YOU PREFER A STOOP. LIKE Human beings were nev- LANSTON HUGHES. er born to read, writes With these words, an ad- Tufts University cognitive Is vocabulary destiny? From the earliest book in venture begins into the neuroscientist and child Why do clocks “talk” medieval England to the world of reading. New- development expert to the Nahua people of incomparable Book of bery Medalist Kwame Maryanne Wolf. Reading Mexico? Will A.I. re- Kells to the oldest manu- Alexander’s evocative is a human invention that searchers ever produce script of the Canterbury poetry and Caldecott reflects how the brain true human-machine Tales, these encounters Honoree Melissa Sweet’s rearranges itself to learn dialogue? In this mes- tell a narrative of intellec- lush artwork come to- something new. In this merizing collection of tual culture and art over gether to take you on a ambitious, provocative essays, bestselling author the course of a millenni- sensory journey between book, Wolf chronicles Daniel Tammet answers um. The author introduc- the pages of a book. For the remarkable journey these and many other es us to kings, queens, ages 4-8. $17.99, hard- of the reading brain not questions about the saints, scribes, artists, li- cover. only over the past 5,000 intricacy and profound brarians, thieves, and col- years since writing began power of language.