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Category Archives: Books
Coming to a bookstore near you
These days most of us are all to familiar with autonomous robots. Whether it’s the helpful little vacuum cleaner scurrying underfoot or the creepy robotic towers wandering and beeping around the supermarket doing what nobody seems to know, robots are … Continue reading
Summarizing Literature
Posted in Books, Writing
Tagged Magic realism, Modernism, Post Modernism, Surrealism
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At home the bookshelves connected heaven and earth
Curriculum Vitae Lisel Mueller 1924-2020 1) I was born in a Free City, near the North Sea. 2) In the year of my birth, money was shredded into confetti. A loaf of bread cost a million marks. Of course I … Continue reading
The East Village is not dead (just different)
Book Club is a new bookstore and wine bar in the infamous Alphabet City neighborhood of Lower Manhattan’s East Village. While I will grant that the East Village is not the bizzaro-crazy place of my feckless youth, its demise is … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Bookstore Tourism, USA
Tagged Alphabet City, East Village, East Village Manhattan, New York City
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Happy Birthday George
Happy birthday, George Washington! To celebrate the actual anniversary, check out this Atlas created in 1932 by the United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission. It is a collection of 85 maps that are associated with Washington including many maps he … Continue reading
Mail Them Packages of Rats
THE PEOPLE OF THE OTHER VILLAGE Thomas Lux hate the people of this village and would nail our hats to our heads for refusing in their presence to remove them or staple our hands to our foreheads for refusing to … Continue reading
Ode to Oodi
Helsinki’s Oodi Central Library has reinvented the idea of the traditional municipal library to create a new kind of community space. With the range of resources and specialist equipment available at Oodi Central Library, Helsinki residents and visitors can learn … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Books, ebooks, Europe, Libraries
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Celebrate with Patience and Fortitude
The New York Public Library is celebrating its 125th anniversary this year. An elite group of librarians from NYPL have created a list of 125 books from the last 125 years that inspire a lifelong love of reading. Even Patience … Continue reading
Posted in Books, History, Libraries, USA, Writing
Tagged Beloved, Bryant Park, New York City, New York Public Library, The Great Gatsby
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