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Category Archives: Books
Anywhere, Anytime
This is a comic series about all those weird things we readers do. Script by The Wild Detectives Illustrations by Laura Pacheco
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen”
I was recently surprised and intrigued to read that the estate of George Orwell has approved a feminist retelling of Nineteen Eighty-Four, which reimagines the story from the perspective of Winston Smith’s lover Julia. In the iconic dystopian novel, Smith … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, Writing
Tagged Airstrip-one, Big Brother, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
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It’s only in my dreams that I am so sinister
(Friday, June 11, 1920) It’s only in my dreams that I am so sinister. Recently I had another dream about you, it was a big dream, but I hardly remember a thing. I was in Vienna, I don’t recall anything … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, Writing
Tagged Austria, Franz Kafka, letters, Milena Jesenski, Prague, Vienna
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Oddest Book of the Year
Is Superman Circumcised? faced some stiff competion but it won the 2021 Diagram Prize for Oddest Book of the Year after garnering a 51% share of the public vote. The book—an academic study on the Jewish origins of the iconic DC … Continue reading
The house was quiet and the world was calm.
If you are looking for a holiday gift for the bibliophiles in your life the Everyman’s Library recently published a splendid new volume in its Pocket Poets series, Books and Libraries: Poems. The 272-page anthology, with gorgeous jacket art, includes … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Libraries, Writing
Tagged Emily Dickinson, Poetry, Reading, Wallace Stevens
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beneath the stains of time
There is often a very real chain linking American literature and music. Sometimes it can be heavyhanded and intrusive, at other times it is truly organic and compelling. I was recently reading Louise Erdrich’s new novel The Sentence which, among other things, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Music, USA, Writing
Tagged Addiction, Johnny Cash, Louise Erdrich, Nine Inch Nails, Trent Reznor
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The History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents
English author and naturalist Edward Topsell (1572-1625) first published his book The History of Four-footed Beasts in 1607, followed by The History of Serpents in 1608. Topsell borrowed extensively from Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner’s Historia animalium (“History of Animals”), a five-volume set … Continue reading
Questions of Travel
There are too many waterfalls here; the crowded streams hurry too rapidly down to the sea, and the pressure of so many clouds on the mountaintops makes them spill over the sides in soft slow-motion, turning to waterfalls under our … Continue reading
Better than the real thing
Regular visitors to Travel Between The Pages know that here at TBTP World HQ we are inordinately fond of silly re-imagined book cover art. There’s something about old pulp fiction paperbacks that calls for satirical reworking. Surprisingly, these clever fake … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, USA, Writing
Tagged book cover art, book cover design, paperbacks, Pulp Fiction
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Travel Between The Pages 