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Category Archives: Books
Anne Frank, A Graphic Biography
Many thanks to Nina Dijkstra for this timely post during Banned Books Week: Following the publication of Anne Frank – the graphic biography in the Netherlands at the beginning of July, publications in other countries will follow this autumn. The … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, Freedom of Speech, History, Museums, Writing
Tagged Amsterdam, Anne Frank, Netherlands
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Campaign For Real Books
Many thanks to contributor Evan Smythe for this post: Over the past year, the media has reported over-the-top claims for e-book readers sales and the escalating sales of e-books. Clearly, e-books have a place in the book reading world but … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Bookstore Tourism, Canada, Europe, Freedom of Speech, Libraries, USA, Writing
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Museum of Innocence
Turkey’s most celebrated living novelist, Orhan Pamuk, is turning his fictional Museum of Innocence into a real tourist attraction in Istambul. The winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature is transforming an old building in central istambul into a … Continue reading
Covering Lolita
Many thanks to author and jounalist Dieter Zimmer for this post: Vladimir Nabokov’s modern classic, Lolita, has been banned many time since its first publication in the U.S. . Author Dieter Zimmer has put together an impressive collection of 150 book covers … Continue reading
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Tagged Banned Books, censorship, Lolita, Nabokov
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BANNED ! … Books Week
September 25−October 2, 2010 Banned Books Week (BBW) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment. Held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of free and open access to information … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Freedom of Speech, History, Libraries, USA, Writing
Tagged Banned Books, censorship
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What’s So Scary About These Books ?
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Tagged Banned Books, censorship
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From Here to There
The Hand Drawn Map Association is an ongoing website project to archive user submitted hand-drawn maps and other interesting diagrams. The association was created by Philadelphia based artist Kris Harzinski who has collected his favorite maps from the collection to … Continue reading
More Burroughs, Aleister Crowley & Jimmy Page
With William Burroughs in the literary news again these days, a mind-bending article from the June 1975 issue of Crawdaddy magazine has surfaced: When I was first asked to write an article on the Led Zeppelin group, to be based … Continue reading
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Tagged Aleister Crowley, Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin, Trance, United Kingdom
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Great Idea, But What About The Fines ?
Having spent many hours waiting for flights at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, I was pleased to hear about the recent launch of the brilliant airport library on the Holland Boulevard. Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands officially opened the Airport Library … Continue reading
Does the Pope Need a Library Card ?
The magnificent Vatican Apostolic Library is set to reopen next Monday following a three-year $11.5 million renovation, with 21st century technology added to safeguard priceless incunabula, manuscripts and books dating back as far as the 1st century. Each one of … Continue reading
Travel Between The Pages 