Green books, stickers, Eco-Libris, and Panels

Eco-libris is partnering with us for the festival and stickers will be available throughout the event to purchase for your own books, books that will one day live in the New Orleans Public Library, and/or books that you purchase while at Pilcrow. Wait, it gets even better! Eco-Libris plants a tree for every stick purchased to offset books. But, during Pilcrow at the NOPL Rebuilt Books fundraiser, Eco-Libris will plant two trees for every sticker people buy on behalf of NOPL.

Stickers? What stickers? Read this. That's right. Yours truly has ordered tons of these stickers for Pilcrow weekend. See what they look like just to your left. Yeah, that green circle with the tree-book. That.

Now, panels. Yes, panels. Due to the incredible turn-out, not only by participants, but by people just coming to listen and hang out, we are securing an additional venue. In fact, it's nearly secured. But, we have to wait for the green light before we can go flapping our traps about it. You understand. So, Monday morning, a list will be up. That's a promise. If it's not up, I surely got conked over the head over the weekend. (I shouldn't joke, I am moving this weekend.)

Rebuilt Books, Soft Skull, Pilcrow

...and again! Soft Soft Press shows Pilcrow's Rebuilt Books some love.

The Rebuilt Book event on Saturday May 24th at The Fixx Coffee Bar on Sheffield is shaping up to be a fabulous event, with so many participants. If you're making artwork for us, make sure you send us your name, title of the book you're destroying and title of your artwork (if any), so we can accurately print up the auction placecards. Thanks!

BookCellar

Excellent news!

BookCellar in Chicago has agreed to serve as the official bookseller for Pilcrow Lit Fest. We couldn't ask for a better bookstore for the job and are really looking forward to hanging with them during the festival.

Rebuilt Books

The fabulous party taking place Saturday May 24th will be a fundraiser to benefit New Orleans Public Libraries damaged during Hurricane Katrina. To help rake in the dough, we're asking authors to take a copy of their own book, destroy it, and rebuild it into a piece of art. Sculpture, on canvass, whatever. Just art. Recruit a team, if you must. Let us know if you're down to destroy your book, magazine, whatever. As long as it's yours in some way.