Book City Jackets

Last week at the Clinton Hill Flea Market I stumbled upon a vendor selling these truly unique and beautiful book covers. Book City Jackets was founded just last year by Emma Gaines- Ross and Jeremy Schwartz offering "updated versions of the classic paper bag book cover". It was a fortuitous encounter for me since I had used my copy of Benjamin Kunkel's Indecision as a cutting board during our road trip. They are totally affordable and the perfect blend of utilitarian and art. They are there every Saturday and on Sunday they set up shop at the Dumbo flea market.

www.bookcityjackets.com

BSAT World

If you, like us, have a natural aversion to standardized tests and feel that they provide no real validity in gauging a persons intellectual capacity (I don't mean to sound angry, I'm just venting here) then you should seriously check out this site: bsatworld.com. The concept is really ingenious. Its a compilation of college application essays, sat-formatted questions, and admissions stories (my favorite being about a guy who decided to pull a prank and turn the tables on his Dartmouth interviewer), all of which provide an honest discourse amongst students as well as being utterly hilarious.