Ep. 259: Buzz Spector and Memorabilia

Bookbinder of the Week:

Buzz Spector

Former Washington University (St Louis MO in the US) professor Señor Spector is less a bookbinder and more of a book sculptor/manipulator/artist who uses books as his medium much like painters use paint and potters use clay. He’s had exhibitions world-wide and has two books you can check out if you find his art alluring: Buzzwords and The Book Maker’s Desire.

Bookbinding

This week I finished my cellphone-size schedule (finally) and shipped it off to the customer. It looks good, I think, and is definitely capable of being put in a suit pocket (the one requirement).

Secondly, I made a sketch book for an artist who wanted a small book he could carry around. This one has a soft cover that is easily folded so he can fold it back and draw (mostly portraits of people he sees in the street). It is 64 pages, A6 (4" x 6") in size, with a portion of a map of the artist’s city as endpapers, and a nifty title:

Book of Thoughts & Memorabilia.

(with a pay phone booth in the background for the memorabilia)

 

 

Fiction

I wrote the final chapter of Growing Slurry. However, the book is not finished. I must get from where I am now, stranded in Chapter 13, to Chapter 15 which is the final chapter. The subtitle has been changed from the very generic ‘A Love Story’ to the more accurate ‘An Accountable Love Story’ as the male main character (Sliven) is a forensic accountant and the female main character brings people to account for their transgressions.

When I eventually finish this novel I promise to make a special edition available to my listeners.