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Enchanting Bookworm Inspired Digital Illustrations by Simini Blocker

NYC based illustrator Simini Blocker understands the enchanting world bookworms revel in. From Hogwarts to Neverland or King’s Landing, Blocker captures the spellbinding imaginative realms literature has introduced to us with vibrant colours, gorgeous brushstrokes and fitting quotes from our favourite authors. You can find her gorgeous illustrations on Society6 and Etsy.

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At last, I can finally announce that this little blog, created in 2013 after a particularly life-affirming Junot Díaz reading, is now a book, coming out October 27 from Penguin Books.

Last Night’s Reading: Illustrated Encounters with Extraordinary Authors features my favorite portraits (including a few of the best from the blog) and goes on a visual journey through my nightly round of book readings, literary events, and occasional run-ins with Toni Morrison. I try to answer the question, “Why do we go to book readings?” (Hint: it’s not for the free wine.)

You can pre-order the book here. The first 25 people to send a screenshot of their pre-order receipt to [email protected] will get an original drawing as a thank you.

If you want an early sneak peek, I’ll be at BEA on May 27, signing BLADs (a short sample of the book). Until then, see you at a reading!

This is awesome news for one of our favorite Brooklynites, kategavino. Seeing our visiting authors illustrated for lastnightsreading warms everyone’s bookish librarian hearts here at Brooklyn Public Library. We can’t wait to show her own published work off, right on our shelves!

— From the acknowledgements in Under the Egg by Laura Marx Fitzgerald, p. 246

We were so delighted by this, we had to go find the book on the shelf and see for ourselves. Sure enough, here it is: 

Awww. We’re blushing.