SHAUN SMITH'S SUNDAY SUNDRIES
A WEEKLY ROUNDUP OF INTERNET CURIOSITIES FROM THE BOOK WORLD
Annotations 1
This very cool interactive tool lets you look at annotations authors have made in their own books.
Annotations 2
And here are some classic books annotated by famous authors
Mine
The apostrophe: own it, please.
Covers
Book designers discuss covers they've scrapped and revised.
Types
The curious evolution of the typewriter in pictures.
Advice
Parenting books c/o Portlandia. What could possibly go wrong?
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SHAUN SMITH is a novelist and award-winning journalist in Toronto, Canada. His young-adult novel Snakes & Ladders was published in 2009 by the Dundurn Group. His book Magical Narcissism: Selected Writings on Books, Writers, Food, and Chefs is available on Kindle and is forthcoming in paperback from Tightrope Books in spring 2013. shaunsmith.ca