The Penguin Classics influenced art of Harland Miller.

• Not totally what we would have picked for the ten best indie bookstores in New York.  (No BookCourt???)

• “I like being on assignment. There’s something exciting about having a mission to go out into the world and report on what I see. Of course it’s a memoir and it’s personal, but I’m also interested in conveying what’s actually going on out there. I see the relationship as concrete, which is why I became  an illustrator as opposed to an artist. I wanted the connection to be grounded in the real world.” – Maira Kalman

• Benjamin Hale talks to L Magazine.

• The Smithsonian has sent a curator to Madison, Wisconsin to collect protest signs, stories and other artifacts from the protests over Gov. Scott Walker’s (possibly illegal?) legislation that would restrict public employee collective bargaining.