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Category Archives: Writing
How Do You Write ?
George R. R. Martin’s recent revelation that he does all of his writing on an old computer running DOS seems to have inspired this infographic:
Posted in Books, Tech, USA, Writing
Tagged A Song Of Ice And Fire, DOS, Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, WordStar 4.0
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Discovering Literature
Last week the British Library launched Discovering Literature, an online treasury of more than 1,200 items from the Romantic and Victorian periods, including first editions, manuscripts and rare illustrations. A wealth of contextual material – newspapers, photographs, advertisements and maps … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, History, Libraries, Maps, Writing
Tagged British Library, Dickens, English Literature, H.G. Wells, Victorians
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Cultivating Thought
One day the writer Jonathan Safran Foer was sitting in a Chipotle Mexican Grill enjoying a veggie burrito (they’re quite good and GMO-free) when he realized that he had nothing to read. This sparked a clever idea for the author … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, USA, Writing
Tagged Chipotle, George Saunders, Jonathan Safran Foer, Sarah Silverman, Toni Morrison
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So Many Books, So Little Time
Posted in Books, Bookstore Tourism, Libraries, USA, Writing
Tagged Book stores, Books
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It Must be the Flag of My Own Disposition
A while back we posted a story on artist Matt Kalish’s awesome project to illustrate every page of Moby Dick . That challenging enterprise inspired Philadelphia-based illustrator Allen Crawford to hand-letter and illustrate his own version of Walt Whiman’s “Song … Continue reading
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Tagged Book Art, Leaves of Grass, Melville, Poetry, Song of Myself, Whitman
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Books Predict The Future
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Tagged Arthur C. Clarke, George Orwell, H.G. Wells, Jonathan Swift, Jules Verne
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For the Library Geeks
Here in the U.S. there are two main types of library classification systems: Dewey Decimal and Library of Congress. This helpful infographic created by Michael Newhouse is a handy guide for the biblio perplexed.
Reading In The Mobile Era
This week UNESCO released a fascinating report on Reading In The Mobile Era in the developing world. Based on over 4,000 surveys, completed in seven nations—Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Nigeria , Pakistan, Uganda and Zimbabwe—the report provides a detailed snapshot of how … Continue reading
What’s On Your Book Shelf
Mike Hanski from the site Bid4Paper has created this interesting infographic titled, “You Are What You Read,” which looks at the reading lists of a diverse set of influential people—living and dead.
Travel Between The Pages 