I first met Simms at the Blue Apple offices about six years ago. I discovered his artwork for the first time when I was a student at the High School of Music and Art when I saw the first edition of WHERE'S MY HOUSE? I then tried to find as much of...
Im always looking for voices; its an editor-thing.
I had some peripheral involvement in the development of the late Simms Tabacks most recent books for Blue Apple--List-o-mania and Dinosaurs. But I never worked directly with him, developing a...
It’s hard to be a mensch. It’s not easy to be modest. Nor it is easy to be generous in appreciating the work of others. Simms Taback was all three.
Welcome to our new website, a work in progress.
upside down and off the beaten oven rack
It was a New York fantasy come true sipping cocktails on the terrace of a Central Park West penthouse, overlooking the sweep of Central Park and the glorious New York skyline in the company of both entertainment and publishing luminaries. It...
Of grass skirts and dancing plants
So this is my first time blogging-- so please be gentle. Met this week with Tom Slaughter. He called to say he was on his way to the office and would be here in 15 minutes. When I told him that we had just received advance copies of his new book,...
Blue Apple Books was just named the Nicest Company in the World.
