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Category Archives: Books
Bookstore Tourism: Rome
I don’t remember if I found the Open Door Bookshop on my first or second visit to Rome, but I do recall meeting the store’s founder the writer and journalist Charles Nopar. Secluded on a lovely street in the picture-postcard … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Bookstore Tourism, Europe, Tourism, Writing
Tagged Bookselling, Italy, Rome, Trastevere
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Americain En France
A French “reading and conversation book” for American soldiers prepared upon the entry of the United States into the First World War. This volume belonged to David S. Blondheim, at that time an associate professor of French and later a professor … Continue reading
Get Thee To A Bookshop
Today is Independent Bookstore Day across the United States. It’s an annual party to celebrate independent bookstores, authors, readers, and literacy. If you are in the U.S., you can find one of the 500+ participating indies right here. All of … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Bookstore Tourism, ebooks, USA, Writing
Tagged Bookshops, indie bookstores
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Literary Road Trip
You might not agree with all of the choices that Mike Nudelman made for this literary map of the U.S. —I certainly didn’t—but it’s a good effort.
Posted in Books, Maps, Tourism, USA, Writing
Tagged Cormac McCarthy, John Grisham, Mark Twain, Sinclair Lewis, Stephen King
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Book Power
BOOK POWER by Gwendolyn Brooks BOOKS FEED AND CURE AND CHORTLE AND COLLIDE In all this willful world of thud and thump and thunder man’s relevance to books continues to declare. Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Libraries, USA, Writing
Tagged Children's literature, Gwendolyn Brooks, Poetry
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Long Walk To A Dark Place
A big h/t to Cameron Booth for the link to this marvelous Middle Earth “transit” map. Commissioned by Empire magazine,the brilliant map which plots the journeys of the key characters through the Peter Jackson film adaptations of The Hobbit and Lord of the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Europe, Film, Maps, movies, Public Transport
Tagged J. R. R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson, the Hobbit
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How the dead communicate with us
Last year, British cartoonist, artist, and children’s book writer Chris Riddell published this wonderful series of sketches that illustrate comments by the great Neil Gaiman on a variety of book related topics.
Posted in Art, Books, Libraries, Writing
Tagged Cartoons, Illustration, Neil Gaiman, Reading
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The Dutch Are Religious About Libraries
A few years ago, a disused 15th century church in Zwolle, Netherlands was transformed into a modern library. Now, a 19th century church in ‘s- Hertogenbosch has been turned into a stunning 21st century combined library/museum/community center. What a great … Continue reading
Tales of Good and Evil
I have long been aware that Edward Gorey designed and illustrated his own books, but I was surprised to discover that he worked as a book designer for Doubleday Publishing throughout the 1950s. While employed by Doubleday, Gorey created more … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, USA, Writing
Tagged book cover design, book covers, Doubleday, Edward Gorey, Franz Kafka, Pushkin
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