Ekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. The flat of Eugenie Kasimov, poet. Verblessly yours, Michael Swanwick

This Hermetic Legislature, published today in Bucharest, photos by Dan Ghetu

This Hermetic Legislature, Homage to Bruno Schulz, on Mantuleasa Street, Bucharest

noted on the street (file under: usage?) cc: @kissane

dark archipelago : the view from the hammock 21:00 20 May 2012 (looking for the bats)

the view from the hammock (occasional series) : 20 May 2012

Atget au Musée Carnavalet http://carnavalet.paris.fr/fr/expositions/eugene-atget-paris

Atget, Papeterie Griffon, exposition au Musée Carnavalet, Paris

the most mysterious site in Paris, what do they do at the Society of Ashes ?

(mail bag) : WTF ! Who reads these books ? Who writes these books ? Why send them to me ?

a parcel from Romania ! Secret Europe

Mark Valentine & John Howard. Secret Europe (2012) : detail of dust jacket

portrait of a great reader : El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha (Madrid, 1780)

getting ready for the New York book fair : the Stokes Phelps colossus (26 vols.)

just received: Brian Aldiss, An Exile on Planet Earth (Bodleian Library, 2012)

the daffodils bloomed today

original edition: Fred Schwed, Jr. Where Are the Customers’ Yachts? New York, 1940.

secret button in the command center of large online bookseller

other side of a book fair: unpacking the trunks afterwards

Matt Ruff. The Mirage. Harper, [2012]. Published book (left); advance proof (right) [inscribed copies in todays mail]