Seriously, someone help me come up with a name for these link dumps. Or else that subject line is going to keep getting worse.

• Prisma books
  A few great modernist book covers. (via ISO50)


• 1950s Latvian "Books By Post" poster
  Sends books and affixed C.O.D. form to all cities and country regions. As long as the title is approved by Stalin (or, in the case of this poster, as long as one of the books is about Stalin). Also: Books for the Masses.


• Time to Buy Stock in X-Acto Knife?
  The Kara Walker effect on books. (via Design Observer)


• Lonely Buds
  I'm really enjoying designer/photographer/blogger Jon Armstrong's photography lately. Someone needs to make a book cover out of this. Or this. UPDATE: THIS ONE! This one. Seriously.


• The Salinger of Indie Rock
  The Husband once met a bearded fella at a party in London and spent most of the night in a corner talking to him. Turns out he was a member of Neutral Milk Hotel. But he's not this guy. The end. (via largehearted boy)


• Depuis Le Jour vs. The Box
  I've been fascinated by Tilda Swinton ever since I first saw the Derek Jarman short "Depuis Le Jour" in college, but somehow I missed realizing that she was the star of this fantastic Orbital video too. (via kottke)


• Magnetic Fields: Stephin Merritt Goes Heavy on the Deadpan
  Looks like I'm not the only freak who loved Ethan Frome. WARNING: Spoilers! As if you'd ever read it anyway... Haters. (via largehearted boy)