Westerfield-Bonte

02/28/2022

In these recent works, Black innovations and labor receive the prominence they deserve in popular narratives.

02/25/2022

This week's of printing jobs is the perfect read for history buffs and locals alike! Who remembers the great flood of 1937?!

02/23/2022

For us, printing is a trade that has been passed down throughout the family tree. 🌳 We've been serving the Louisville area for 112 years and as each generation takes the torch, there is an immense pride to be found in our work. While there are many options when it comes to printing, we guarantee a level of customer service that is unmatched. At Westerfield-Bonte, your book is in good hands!

02/22/2022

Join our friends at 89.3 WFPL News Louisville tomorrow night, Tuesday, Feb. 22 at 7pm, for a special celebrating bell hooks. Friends and admirers, including Crystal Wilkinson, will share stories about bell hooks and discuss her work.

02/21/2022

Have you ever wondered how a book becomes a book? This article walks you through the printing process.

Have you ever wondered how a book becomes a book? Join us as we follow Marlon James’s “Moon Witch, Spider King” through the printing process.

02/17/2022

Looking for a novel written by a local author? Check out this week's 📖

02/15/2022

Sharing some more favorite Black writers from our booksellers today. Johanna, an avid poetry reader, wanted to highlight some of her most beloved poetry collections by Black poets.

* The Tradition by Jericho Brown
* Horsepower by Joy Priest
* Perfect Black by Crystal Wilkinson
* Appalachian Elegy by bell hooks
* Be Holding by Ross Gay

02/14/2022

In case you in need a little love today! ❤

From warring TV co-hosts and rivaling K-Drama actresses to the up-and-coming chefs, book editors, king crab fishermen and every rom-com character in between, we’ve rounded up the best romance novels of 2022, sure to make you laugh, cry and turn pages into the night.Most Anticipated Romance Novels ...

02/11/2022

In honor of Valentine's Day coming up, we're sharing a book from one of our past printing jobs that has a whole lotta heart. ❤

02/10/2022

Ask us about our program! Get a perfect, printed & bound replica of your book on your chosen stock, finished and trimmed to it's actual size, all for only $50!

Specialty Book Printer in Louisville, Kentucky Since 1910.

Over a century of printing knowledge and experience makes Westerfield-Bonte an easy choice for small-batch digital book printing.

02/09/2022

Memory believes before knowing remembers." ~ William Faulkner

In a 96-year-old writer recounted in fine detail the Day of Enfamy: a priest at St. Martin of Tours church delivered the words "We are in war" to the parishioners which included this then twenty-something teacher with her first grade class, squirming in the pews. The children had no idea the implication, but this young woman felt the dead weight of the situation.
It was bleak.
She recalled "breathtaking statements" delivered in the vacuum of the beautiful cathedral. She recounted exactly how many casualties, how many ships destroyed or damaged, the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor...how within hours the U.S. went to war with Japan, and then, in turn, how Germany and Italy went to war with the U.S. "It was a bleak time," she wrote.
Days changed from happy to dark. All steel was gathered up and reprocessed for war equipment. Houses grew dim and curtained at night. Curfews. Rations. "There was much," she said, "I can't recall." But in the same breath, everyone waited for the precious news to be delivered in the newspapers.
When asked how she was able to recount all the exact numbers, figures, specifics of the battle. She looked over, smiling, "Well I looked it up on the computer." 😉

We have incredible gifts of and much we have to learn from our friends. They are the stoic, brave ones, really.

My my my. ❤️

02/07/2022

“I love to read, so it’s kind of frustrating to see the bans, especially because a lot of adults are banning it, but they’re not asking teenagers our opinion on these books.”

Conservatives are pushing to ban books from school libraries. At a time of crisis, a group of Pennsylvania teenagers are fighting back