The Pencil of the Month Club is a go! The first 150 subscribers get a nice KUM sharpener, plus three nice pencils per month for one year starting in May for $24. What’s not to love? I’ve already subscribed and think you should, too.
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Doris Kearns Goodwin wins a $50,000 prize (for her book).
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Drop Everything And Read. (via librarian.net)
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French Ornate Mini notebook (via papersnobbery)
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A new, popular series of children’s books: Warriors. The primary characters are warrior kitties, and the series is written by two cat ladies. (via Publishing Insider, the HarperCollins blog)
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Crime in the Library blog (via librarian.net)
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Booked Solid

Then there is the Georgetown widow who requests anonymity to keep her literary “addiction” secret. She admits she once seriously considered buying and moving into the house next door, leaving her mushrooming book collection at the old address.

(via Father Inch)
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Bookish Ireland Uncovered: The History of the Irish Book is

…the story of our relationship with the book as an artefact and as a literary, historical and information vehicle which has for long been at the heart of Irish society. In particular, it is an exploration of how it was produced and the influences that spawned its growth.

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Three New 1830 First Edition Book of Mormons Available 176 Years Later
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I just learned of the Florida Bibliophile Society. Too bad the photo on their home page is weird and a bit creepy.
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Marist College has a nice online exhibit on the history of fore-edge painting.
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Hand Papermaking magazine has launched their Spring Subscription Drive. A subscription includes two issues of the magazine and four issues of the Hand Papermaking Newsletter per year, plus free copy of Papermaking with Garden Plants & Common Weeds by Helen Hiebert.
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Librix Continuum, a producer of fine limited edition books and objets d’art based in Italy and D.C., introduces TENNESSEE, a limited edition art bookbinding. That’s Tennessee the Williams, not Tennessee the state.
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This is Tennessee the state…

Tennessee presses submit work of ‘Devil or Angel’:

A “printer’s devil” is a Renaissance term that means anything relentlessly troublesome to a printmaker. “Devil or Angel?” is an exhibit of fine art and commercially printed posters, books and art pieces made using Austin Peay State University’s Goldsmith Press and four other Tennessee presses.