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Category Archives: Books
All Guns Are Loaded
I was tickled by this list of book titles that the great noir writer Raymond Chandler created but never used. The Islands in the Sky was eventually a title by Arthur C. Clarke and The Black-Eyed Blonde was used by both Erle Stanley Gardner … Continue reading
Posted in Books, USA, Writing
Tagged Mystery, Noir, Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler
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Hooked on Books
Bibliomania was animated and directed by Rosalie Osman
Brideshead Unvisited
H/t Tom Gauld
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
As some readers know, much of my time is generally occupied finding and selling antiquarian travel books. Although I focus mostly on 19th and early 20th century travel guidebooks, I am interested in other travel literature and unrelated genres, as … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Asia, Books, Tourism, Travel Writing, Writing
Tagged Haiku, Japan, Matsuo Basho, Poetry
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Bookshop Noir
When I stumbled upon the film noir gif below it reminded me what a pivotal role the bookshop Geiger’s Rare Books played in the noir classic. It’s been years since I’ve actually viewed the film, but I got a little … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Film, movies, USA, Writing
Tagged Film Noir, Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
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Not in the Nick of time
I recently read that there is a prequel to The Great Gatsby scheduled for publication in January 2021 when the copyright expires on F.Scott Fitzgerald’s great American novel. On January 1, 2021, the iconic book enters the public domain in … Continue reading
Posted in Books, USA, Writing
Tagged F. Scott Fitzgerald, fan fiction, Fiction, Publishing
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Fantastic Fonts
As an antiquarian book collector, I’ve always been fascinated by the astonishing variations in fonts and typefaces. These days we are so overwhelmed by the variety of fonts that we see both in print and online that we often … Continue reading
The Bookshop Sketch
Posted in Books, Bookstore Tourism, Europe, Film
Tagged BBC, John Cleese, Television
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If you want to understand a poem
h/t Grant Snider
