Sneak Peek at Athenaeum from BoSP

[Stavrogin]

Yep, what mjp said. Hope I grabbed one of the remaining ten. Why can't you small press types around here just print rubbish with shit care? I could afford a finer brand of Scotch. Some people, I swear.

 

[Hosh]

Aren't we supposed to be looking at this thing through a pinhole in a paper plate? It's as beautiful and as rare as a solar eclipse...

 

[Rekrab]

[...] Why can't you small press types around here just print rubbish with shit care? I could afford a finer brand of Scotch. Some people, I swear.

Well, I do, but that's not going to save you any Scotch money. The price doesn't go down just because the quality goes down. That's not how capitalism work. Speaking just for my own crummy publications -- BOSP quality is always sky high.

 

[bospress.net]

David is one of those rare publishers whose every release is well thought out and a work of art. I can't wait to hold and read a copy of "ghost".

Bill

 

[Stavrogin]

Well, I do, but that's not going to save you any Scotch money. The price doesn't go down just because the quality goes down. That's not how capitalism work. Speaking just for my own crummy publications -- BOSP quality is always sky high.

I'm certainly not overlooking the possibility you are full of shit. :D

 

[Rekrab]

David is one of those rare publishers whose every release is well thought out and a work of art. I can't wait to hold and read a copy of "ghost".

Bill, you are too kind. My publications are lucky (or unlucky) accidents. They do age well, though. Digital media makes all analog stuff look/sound/smell better. Another 20 years and me and every other hippie who ever ran a mimeograph will seem like geniuses (genii?)

I'm certainly not overlooking the possibility you are full of shit. :D

Bingo! I may be full of it about how capitalism works, but I'm right about BOSP equals quality.

 

[Black Swan]

Beautiful, Bill!

 

[mjp]

Holy crap noodles - I received the set today and it is a top notch jewel. Really the most crucially crucial thing I've seen in a long time, small press or large.

Tomorrow I will find some white gloves or oven mitts and read them all.

Well done, amigo. A thing - or things - of beauty.

 

[Purple Stickpin]

Has it been five days already?

(end ball-busting)

 

[Ponder]

Well done you artist you.
And thank you.

 

[bospress.net]

Hi,
Many thanks. Those that bought copies will get theirs very shortly. They will go in the mail on Tuesday (I think that Monday is a Federal Holiday).

These took a LOT longer than planned.

Bill

 

[mjp]

These took a LOT longer than planned.

I can see why.

Carol says the bindings smell like love and the clamshell smells like a cool ocean breeze.

 

[Hosh]

It arrived in NM yesterday--I had my gal snap a quick photo right as I opened the thing...

H E R E

 

[Ponder]

I didn't know you're one of the two minutes men, Hosh.

 

[Hosh]

Not sure what that means, but it sounds pretty bad for me...

 

[hoochmonkey9]

man, I can't wait. I'll probably get mine later this week. I hope my binding smells like Brylcreem and 1930 Indian motorcycle handlebar grips. that'd be cool.

 

[mjp]

If I remember correctly, the binding of your particular book smelled like fennel and Indian reservation.

 

[hoochmonkey9]

I'll take it!

 

[Purple Stickpin]

Odiferous witticisms aside, this is a significant work that delivers both in form and in content. Congrats to all involved.

 

[mjp]

That's what I meant to say.

 

[Hosh]

I've read all the books, careful not to mess them up too much, and now it sits on the shelf...looking fucking majestic.

Great stuff by all. Makes for a varied and enjoyable reading experience--what with the bodies washing ashore, the barfights and dead-beat dads, the icebergs, and rusted ships, and mystical karaoke bands...

And the handwritten poems and artwork...man...

And the clamshell itself...no other way to say it: it's just so MONEY!

Bill really outdid himself with this thing. I'm stupefied by the whole unholy production. Bill is like the Picasso of bookmaking!

 

[hoochmonkey9]

got it!

haven't read them yet, but I'm absolutely dumbfounded and humbled by the way they look.

absolutely stunning.

glad I bribed my way into this production.

 

[mjp]

Is that what the kids are calling a blow job/nut tickle these days? A "bribe"?

Not that I'm passing judgment. You know, considering what I had to do.






I am very sorry to sully this dignified thread in such a manner. Perhaps I should be booted from the forum.

 

[Stavrogin]

Picked up mine at the post office and did an Electric Boogaloo Shabba-Doo number right then and there......I'm bedridden now but will have plenty of time to read. Thanks to all involved in this.

 

[bospress.net]

one man's knuckle job is another man's $300 check made out to "cash".

So, everyone who bought one and all contruibutors received their copies? Anyone missing anything?

Thanks,

bill

 

[esart]

bill, you have really out done yerself here. totally amazing!

 

[Rekrab]

I found my copy at the library book sale yesterday. Because all five books were in one clamshell, they only charged me a buck!

Not really, but as I hauled away a box full of 1890s magazines I bought for 20 cents each, a wino asked me for a hand out. I told him, "Sorry, man I spent my last dollar on these books" -- something I've always wanted to say to a wino.

(Maybe I shouldn't type before I've had my coffee, but it's too late now, I'm pushing "Post")

 

[strangegirl]

Those look beautiful Bill.

 

[anais ninja]

The superlatives have already been thrown around (and deservedly) so I'll just say they are all that, and more. I'm pretty certain they are the 4th gift of the magi.

 

[mjp]

I updated this site with all the ink thingies I did for this Athenaeum project. If anyone wants to see them.