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Category Archives: USA
NYC: Underground Arts
All to often we see horror stories in the media about the terrible state of the New York City subway system. As someone who has traveled the MTA all of my life, I have to admit that it can be … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Music, Public Transport, USA
Tagged Bronx, Gil Scott-Heron, Manhattan, MTA, NYC
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In the vast abyss before time
HOW IT SEEMS TO ME by Ursula K. Le Guin In the vast abyss before time, self is not, and soul commingles with mist, and rock, and light. In time, soul brings the misty self to be. Then slow time … Continue reading
There and back again (again)
Last year I posted a story about the Oxford Bodleian Library once-in-a-lifetime exhibition Tolkien: Maker of Middle Earth, which was the most extensive public display of original Tolkien materials ever gathered in one place. This week I was dead chuffed to discover … Continue reading
Posted in Animation, Art, Books, Libraries, Maps, movies, Museums, Photography, USA, Writing
Tagged Frodo, Gandalf, JRR Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, Middle Earth, the Hobbit
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Bookstore Tourism: Austin
Over the years I’ve visit dozens of library book sales and used book outlets, but I think that Austin, Texas has to have the biggest bookstore. Situated in an unappealing stripmall. Recycled Reads is a surprising find. The city of Austin has … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Bookstore Tourism, Libraries, USA
Tagged Austin, recycling, sustainability, Texas
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It’s Always Sunny In South Philadelphia
Tomorrow a new indie bookstore is having its official grand opening in south Philly. A Novel Idea, which has had a gradual soft roll-out over the past few weeks, is owned and managed by writer Christina Rosso-Schneider and her artist husband Alexander … Continue reading
Posted in Books, USA, Bookstore Tourism
Tagged Philadelphia, Bookselling, South Philly
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Yes! We Have No Bananas
Unlike most civilized nations the United States does not deem a work to be in the public domain according to who created it (i.e. established by the death date of its creator), but rather when it was published. As you may know, in … Continue reading
America 2018
The Land of the Living Dead: a Narrative of the Perilous Sojourn therein of George Cowper, Mariner, in the Year 1835. Neal Fyne. London: Henry J. Drane, n.d. [1897]. Illustrations by E. A. Holloway. First edition. Fantastic adventure fiction. Castaways … Continue reading
Intermission
Edward Hopper, Intermission (1963)
