Hey there, Lookout lookin’ good in UNCW’s Arts and Sciences magazine!
- Posted by John Mortara, via Sally Johnson.
I know a behind-the-scenes look at Lookout should be, well, just that. You know, a sneaky behind-the-curtain glance. But for this post, we’ve found the spotlight! It’s not our fault: look at all these beautiful books!
The Publishing Laboratory is an enormous part of how Lookout Books ticks. It is home to bookbuilding and design courses, to computers with InDesign and Photoshop, to printers and scanners, to our glue binder and guillotine trimmer, and, of course, our ever-helpful Pub Lab TAs. We make so many things and spend so much time in the Pub Lab it’s easy to take it for granted.
But UNCW’s Boseman Gallery decided to highlight the work of students in the Pub Lab by displaying their work through July 30. There are chapbooks, artist’s books, Lookout books. We could make a whole Dr. Seuss-like rhyme out of all the pretty things in there.
We’re proud to house such a great lab that inspires and creates beautiful pieces of literature and art.
-Sally J Johnson, Lookout Intern
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I spy some Lookout stickers and a hot-off-the-press poster for a really awesome reading! We’re getting so excited for Edith Pearlman and John Rybicki to get into town, we can hardly stand it. I thought this was a great opportunity to document some of the Lookout love I saw on the table during our meeting.
- Sally Johnson, Lookout Intern
Last week we were busy bees here in the Pub Lab! Edith Pearlman is coming to North Carolina for her tour soon (mid-April! Who’s ready?), and so we were getting together her press kits. They are so very beautiful, filled with reading guides, stickers, posters, Binocular Vision, and much more! All right, all right, enough ogling, it’s back to work for us!
- Sally J. Johnson, Lookout Intern
Lookout Books was in Chicago for AWP last week! We were so excited to be part of such a great experience.
First, we flew in and were welcomed to cold, cold Chicago. Turns out the Windy City is aptly named. But no fear, we were cozy in the book fair at tables N5/N6 with UNCW’s MFA program, Ecotone and Chautauqua! So many great people came by to see us and buy books, and Edith Pearlman was there signing copies of Binocular Vision!
Thursday night we shared drinks and laughs with Orion, Milkweed, and Ecotone at Bar Louie. Our very own Vodka Pearlmans stole the show!
After a couple more days in the book fair, we flew home happy and with ten fewer boxes of books! We were glad to see all those Lookout Books, stickers, and notebooks find happy homes.
See y’all next year,
Sally, Lookout Intern
P.S. Were you in Chicago? Did you see us there? Do you have pictures? Share with us! Our photos were taken by Lookout Interns Sally Johnson and Meg Reid.
We just finished hand-making these wonderful little journals for AWP.
Get them at tables N5/N6 when you buy a Lookout book — Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman, God Bless America by Steve Almond, or the not-yet-released poetry collection When All the World is Old by John Rybicki (April 10).
- John Mortara, Lookout Intern
