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Photo from INK Illustration.

There’s a wonderful blog called Invisible Library which catalogs books that technically don’t exist: fictional titles mentioned in works of fiction. Like D.B. Caulfield’s book of short stories, The Secret Goldfish, which his brother talks about in The Catcher in the Rye. (In a meta-move, a real-life author published a book entitled The Secret Goldfish.) Or all those books by Benno von Archimbaldi that the characters were obsessed about in Roberto Bolaño’s 2666. And a ton of titles in the novels of Vladimir Nabokov.

Here’s one for the Invisible Library: Under A Loggia by Eleanor Lavish, from A Room With A View by E.M. Forster.

Invisible Library has teamed up with the London-based INK Illustration for an exhibition. Brilliant.

Photo from INK Illustration.

Which brings me to my project: I’m going to produce completely handwritten books for friends. Hard labor, but I like writing anyway.