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Category Archives: USA
August, you’re just an erotic hallucination
“Here in the electric dusk your naked lover tips the glass high and the ice cubes fall against her teeth. It’s beautiful Susan, her hair sticky with gin, Our Lady of Wet Glass-Rings on the Album Cover, streaming with hatred … Continue reading
RIP Toni Morrison
You think dark is just one color, but it ain’t. There’re five or six kinds of black. Some silky, some woolly. Some just empty. Some like fingers. And it don’t stay still, it moves and changes from one kind of … Continue reading
Read and Return
When I travel, I usually pack way too much reading material. However, that never stops me from buying a book (or two) from an airport bookshop or newstand. Now there’s a program for compulsive book buyers like me that allows … Continue reading
Posted in Air Travel, Books, Bookstore Tourism, Canada, USA
Tagged Airport terminal, Bookselling
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The summer night is like a perfection of thought
The House Was Quiet and The World Was Calm BY WALLACE STEVENS The house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became the book; and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book. The house was quiet … Continue reading
A festival for us (bibliophiles)
Now that it’s officially August, I was checking to see when the National Book Festival was happening in Washington D.C. and I found the wonderful poster for this year’s event. If you can make it to DC, it’s always worth … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Tourism, USA, Writing
Tagged Book Festivals, Library of Congress, Washington D.C
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Philadelphia: Word on the Street
Philly-based street artist Marisa Velázquez-Rivas has launched a series of wheatpaste street art work around town titled Smash the Fash , which depicts Nazi and white supremacist symbols being crushed by a hand with some impressive nails. In a Facebook … Continue reading
Bookstore Tourism : Chicago
Chicago’s newest bookstore has recently opened in West Town. And while the launch of an independent bookstore is always cause for celebration, Semicolon Bookstore & Gallery is giving us even more reasons to cheer; it’s the only bookstore owned by … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Bookstore Tourism, USA
Tagged Bookselling, Chicago, indie bookstores
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Travel Between The Pages 