My cousin Liisa launched her new book, Encyclopedia Gothica, this month! These pics are from her book signing at our hometown public (Carnegie) library:
The book is gorgeous: illustrated, with ragged edge pages, and may be set in Garamond (I love that font, will have to ask…) More info about the book at http://encyclopediagothica.com.
Here’s the publisher’s description:
Encyclopedia Gothica is a guide through that shadowiest of subcultures: modern Goths. It collects and defines more than 600 words and phrases used by these children of the night so that you too can engage in conversations about deathhawks and rivetheads and who is more übergoth: Bela Lugosi or Robert Smith.
Compiled by acclaimed Goth journalist and poet Liisa Ladouceur, it gives readers insight into the unique vernacular of this fascinating community, describing in detail and with black humour the fashion, music, and lifestyle as well as sharing insider slang such as Baby Bat, Corp Goth and the Gothic Two-Step, and the first ever Goth Band Family Tree. From absinthe to zombies, it’s the Encyclopedia Gothica!
I totally forgot about this! Weren’t we going to go the book signing?
We were, but I missed it because I was working on my website that week :( (and still). I went to the one in my hometown instead, so I still haven’t seen your new sofa!!