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Category Archives: Books
March Elegy
March Elegy by Anna Akhmatova
Story Typology
The Two Types of Stories: Expanded Edition For the NY Times Book Review. For more comics on all things literary, check out Grant Snider’s book I WILL JUDGE YOU BY YOUR BOOKSHELF.
Monday, Monday, can’t trust that day
Film studio “Animācijas Brigāde” is a stop motion puppet animation film studio, producing puppet films and commercials. Working in classic stop motion technique, the Riga-based studio was founded in 1966 by a puppet film and theater director Arnolds Burovs and since … Continue reading
Posted in Animation, Art, Books, Europe, Film, Maps, USA, Writing
Tagged Latvia, Mappa Mundi, Neil Gaiman, Philip Roth, stop motion animation
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“Mourir auprès de toi”
Directed by the inimitable Spike Jonze the short film “Mourir auprès de toi” (“To Die by Your Side”), which takes its title from one of the emotionally wrenching Smiths’ song, is a love story for booklovers, set in Paris’ beloved … Continue reading
Posted in Animation, Art, Books, Bookstore Tourism, Europe, Film
Tagged Paris, Shakespeare and Company, Spike Jonze, stop motion animation
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Fat-Headed Censors
You would have to have been living under a basket to avoid the recent brouhaha over the re-editing of classic books by so-called sensitivity readers and editors. Here in the Colonies we’ve been through this with the books of Dr. … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Europe, Freedom of Speech, Libraries, USA, Writing
Tagged censorship, Dr. Seuss, McSweeney's, Roald Dahl
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Still Life
The mesmerizing video below was made with more than 1400 engravings from the 19th century, Still Life is a meditation on subject/object dualism. The film explores the idea that we live in a world of objects and a world of … Continue reading
Your Brain on Reading
How humans process and learn from written words. 1 Located in the parietal lobe, the angular gyrus facilitates communication between different parts of the brain, permitting humans to simultaneously recognize, understand, and remember words on a page. 2 The fusiform gyrus is important in … Continue reading
The good news is that you are alive
“The Good News” by Thich Nhat Hanh They don’t publish the good news. The good news is published by us. We have a special edition every moment, and we need you to read it. The good news is that you … Continue reading