New Lit Blog

Abbeville Press, an NYC independent publisher of art and illustrated books, has a cool blog they launched back in February: The Abbeville Manual of Style.

I like that although this is a company blog, it has no qualms with promoting other books and authors that relate to their own mission and has a great voice to it as well. The blog covers the intersection of the art and publishing worlds by blogging on stylish books, authors, events, web sites, and even includes style points like:

Etiquette

1.1. When meeting a famous photographer at a publicity event, it’s considered a faux pas to ask him to take a picture of you and your friends. He’s “off-duty,” as they say, and besides, you think he’s going to create his next masterpiece with that pink Casio digital you picked up at Circuit City? You wouldn’t hand a famous calligrapher a ballpoint pen and ask him for an autograph, would you? Sigh… you probably would.

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