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Category Archives: USA
Get On Board The Holiday Train
The Chicago Transit Authority is getting into the holiday spirit again this year with the wildly popular Holiday Train!. Santa and his elves ride the train passing out candy canes and season’s greetings. The spectacular train is an amazing sight – during … Continue reading
Holiday Book Guide
Are you having trouble choosing last minute book gifts ? Well the New York Public Library has created a Holiday Book List Generator to help you out. The app covers a wide range of subjects: Architecture, Cooking, Dance, Gardening, Music, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Libraries, Music, Photography, Theater, Travel Writing, USA, Writing
Tagged Book Lists, Gifts, NYC, NYPL
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Still Life With Books
I recently ran across a blog that was “offering’ a download of this painting (see above) to be used as a screen saver. It looked very familiar and after a little research I realized that it was by the 19th … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Uncategorized, USA
Tagged Painting, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, William M. Harnett
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Take a kid to a bookstore (please)
Tomorrow is the Fifth Annual Take Your Child to a Bookstore Day. More than 750 bookshops in all of the 50 U.S. States, plus bookstores in 7 Canadian Provinces, Germany, the UK and Australia, will be hosting special events to … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Bookstore Tourism, Canada, Europe, USA, Writing
Tagged Children's literature, Independent bookstore, indie bookstores
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The Heartland
Prints of this gorgeous typographic map of the American Heartland by artist/designer/photographer Nancy McCabe can be purchased on her Etsy shop along with other examples of her extraordinary work.
Posted in Art, Maps, USA
Tagged Chicago, Great Lakes, Minnesota, North Dakota, St Paul
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Fame Is Relative
Posted in Books, USA, Writing
Tagged Ernest Hemingway, Harper Lee, Ken Kesey, Pearl S Buck
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Indies First
For the second year, Indies First—the campaign in support of independent bookstores—is celebrating Small Business Saturday by turning authors into volunteer booksellers at bookshops across the United States. The now annual event brings together writers, readers and booksellers to support … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Bookstore Tourism, USA, Writing
Tagged Coral Gables, Homer, Independent bookstore, Small Business Saturday
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The Last Bookstore
Arizona-based photographer Bryan David Griffith spent the better part of the last year traveling around the United States in an old camper documenting the surviving and thriving American independent bookstore. Using a large format camera, Griffith created a project called “The Last … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Bookstore Tourism, Photography, USA
Tagged American Booksellers Association, Bookstores, indie bookstores
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Travel Between The Pages 