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Form Line of Battle! by Alexander Kent and Fail-Safe by Eugene Burdick top this piece.
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Form Line of Battle! by Alexander Kent and Fail-Safe by Eugene Burdick top this piece.
The title of this piece plays with the title of the book at its crown, The Surgeon by W. C. Heinz.
The flavor of revolution at the Tahrir Book Fair in Egypt; the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Nevada is under fire from politicians; a book you can sleep inside; China's "most severe crackdown on freedom of expression in years"; and other news.
A movie scheduled to be released in the fall presents the theory that the 17th Earl of Oxford wrote all of Shakespeare's plays and poems. This trailer for Anonymous, starring Rys Ifans as Oxford and Vanessa Redgrave as Elizabeth I, features music by Radiohead.
Titles used in this piece include A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt and The Utmost Island by Henry Myers.
Capping this sculpture is the novel The Methuselah Enzyme, Fred Mustard Stewart's novel of eternal youth-seeking, with Decade by Stephen Longstreet and Proud Destiny by Lion Feuchtwanger also integrated.
Roughly five thousand books were used to create this piece and its companion, Reminiscent.
Stilkey often selects books based on the color and texture of their covers.