For only the second time since 1967, Hugo Pratt’s celebrated graphic novel is being published in English. The story centers around a treasure hunter named Corto Maltese who while being adrift at sea is picked up by a Russian pirate named Rasputin. I’m about halfway into it, and can summarize things by saying that “adventure ensues.”

Available in March through Universe

4 limited edition notebooks—2 ruled and 2 plain—will be hitting stores in March. Build.

Pre-order here

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Nice idea. Available here

“The portable telephone Pablo was using when police traced calls to his family in the hours before his death on 2 December 1993.”

Featured in James Mollison’s book The Memory of Pablo Escobar

We are pleased to present our 127th installment of Sound Advice featuring Ewen Spencer. Ewen is a British photographer who has a new book out featuring photographs he took with the White Stripes early in their career, called Three’s A Crowd.

Sound Advice 127

01. Hercules by Aaron Neville
02. Walk on Gilded Splinters by Dr John
03. Old Friend Blues by The Kingsbury Manx
04. New Partner by Palace
05. If Could Only Be Sure by Nolan Porter
06. Lonely For You Baby by Sam Dees
07. I Was Born to Love You by Timeless Legend
08. The Hardest Part by Curtis Anderson
09. Move Me No Mountain by Dionne Warwick
10. It’s Alright with Me by Patti Labelle
11. That Time by Regina Spektor
12. Lights Out by Santigold
13. It;s All Over Now Baby Blue by The Byrds
14. In the City by The Who
15. Anenome by The Brian Jonestown Massacre

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Aerosol Art. Looking forward to this book coming out Spring 2012.

The owners of Type bookstore in Toronto got creative after-hours.

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You can get them here in this collectible book.

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Picked this book up at the Reed Space over the weekend. If you’re not near NYC, you can cop it online for $16

5.5″ x 8.5″ – 224 pages
2-color offset on newsprint.
Perfect-bound with dustcover.
Edition of 1000

Tate Shots: Maurice Sendak

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The Atlantic has excerpted part of an excellent story by Joshuah Bearman about “the only authentic bar and restaurant in Baghdad’s Green Zone.” The accompanying video (after the jump) is great too.

Iraqis have a word, barra, which means “out there,” and for those lucky enough to be inside the Green Zone came to mean the rest of Baghdad, the bedlam beyond the T-walls. As the insurgency reached fever pitch in 2006, Iraqis and Americans alike were terrified that barra would not stay out there but come in here, that the war would breach the perimeter, that the place would collapse and there would be a mad scramble to evacuate, like Saigon in ’75.

The Baghdad Country Club, the only authentic bar and restaurant in Baghdad’s Green Zone, was one place where people could forget about barra for a moment. Anyone — mercenaries and diplomats, contractors and peacekeepers, aid workers and Iraqis — could walk in, get dinner, open a decent bottle of Bordeaux, and light a cigar from the humidor to go with it. Patrons would check their weapons in a safe, like coats in a coatroom, and leave the war behind as they wandered past a sign that read:

BAGHDAD COUNTRY CLUB
NO GUNS, NO AMMUNITION, NO GRENADES, NO FLASH BANGS, NO KNIVES–
NO EXCEPTIONS!

 Read more at the Atlantic and order a copy for yourself here

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David Wondrich created a recipe which is as faithful to that of Dickens’ time as possible.

1. Using a swivel-bladed vegetable peeler, peel four lemons, avoiding as much as possible cutting into the white pith. Reserve the lemons and put the peels into a large, nonreactive bowl.

2. Add one cup of sugar, preferably demerara or turbinado (such as “Sugar in the Raw”). Using a muddler, mash the peels into the sugar until the sugar is thoroughly wet with the lemon oil.

3. Pour one pint of boiling water into the bowl with the oleo-saccharum (the lemon oilinfused sugar). Press the solids in the strainer to extract whatever can be extracted and discard them. Stir the sugar in the hot water until it has dissolved.

4. Squeeze the reserved lemons and enough others to get eight ounces of juice.

5. Add the lemon juice, stir and then remove the lemon peels with a slotted spoon and discard them.

6. Add one liter of dark, full-bodied rum, such as Meyers’s or Gosling’s. Stir, taste, and adjust for sweetness.

7. Pour this into a large (3-quart or bigger) earthenware or metal jug.

8. Immediately before serving, add a quart of boiling water, stirring to dissolve the sugar.

9. Grate about a quarter of a nutmeg on top.

To keep this hot, you will need to set it by a fireplace or heating-stove, if you want
to do it the old-fashioned way, or on a hotplate set on low if you’re determined to be
modern about it.

Not too long ago TWBE took a field trip to MB Port in Manhattan Beach, where we stuffed our faces with bacon cheddar buttermilk biscuits and downed La Chouffe beer. The waiter brought the check in this Chefs I Met and Liked notebook, which I thought about stealing, but decided against it because I wanted to go back sometime for more biscuits.

—Zio

Tonight (12/20). Not Garbage.

Until the Friday before Christmas, we’ll be posting one product a day to help make the holiday the most gifted one yet

If someone you know and like swears by a kindle, you can send them e-books that will appear on their device Christmas morning.