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Category Archives: Writing
Reading Roadtrip
Celebrating its 120th anniversary this year, Vroman’s in Pasadena is Southern California’s oldest and largest independent bookstore. The popular bookshop recently installed a clever display called “Read your way across the USA”. The shelf display presents books that are set in … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Bookstore Tourism, Travel Writing, USA, Writing
Tagged Bookstores, indie bookstores
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Out In The Cold
As the Winter Olympics finally get underway, Pen International has launched the “Out in the Cold” campaign to protest the draconian antigay laws that Russia has enacted. As a piece of the campaign, hundreds of writers, including Paul Auster, Orhan Pamuk, Margaret … Continue reading
This Is Not A Map
Poetry Wanted is a tiny Paris-based publisher with a somewhat incongruous focus on photography. Last year the company founder, photographer Rémi Noël launched a project called “This Is Not A Map”, which produces a publication that looks like a map … Continue reading
The Allure of Old Books ( & maps )
The Peculiar Underworld of Rare-Book Thieves The Allure of the Map What is the oldest book in the world? The Library of Congress by the numbers. What happens when Oxford’s Bodleian Library and the Biblioteca Vaticana collude?
Posted in Art, Books, Europe, History, Libraries, Maps, Museums, USA, Writing
Tagged Bodleian Library, Library of Congress, Rare Books, Vatican Library
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Books I Love
Books I Love is a new social networking app for book lovers that allows readers to share their reading suggestions and critiques digitally with social contacts . The free iOS app lets users both send and receive book recommendations individually … Continue reading
Wellcome Images
On Monday, London’s famed Wellcome Library released a dizzying collection of digitized images from its vast archive. The free, downloadable high resolution images are available to copy, distribute, manipulate or edit. The rich and unique collection is wide-ranging, from social … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Europe, History, Libraries, Museums, Photography, Writing
Tagged Creative Commons, Digital Images, London, Wellcome Library
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Creepy, Crawly Indeed
London-based book cover designer Jamie Keenan has created a terrific cover for a new paperback edition of Franz Kafka’s 1915 novella Metamorphosis. This version, based on a completely new translation by Susan Berofsky, has just been released by W W … Continue reading
On Such a Full Sea
My copy of author Chang-rae Lee’s new dystopian novel On Such a Full Sea came with the quaint, antiquated book jacket that you see above. Now I’m coveting the very cool limited edition 3D printed cover version (see below). Lee’s … Continue reading
The Burroughs Century
William S. Burroughs was an American author, painter, actor, Beat icon, and one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. To celebrate the anniversary of his 100th birthday ( February 5, 2014 ), his birthplace, Bloomington Indiana is … Continue reading
Posted in Books, History, movies, Music, Tourism, USA, Writing
Tagged Beat Generation, William S. Burroughs
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Adventures Underground
“Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, History, Libraries, Museums, Writing
Tagged Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, British Library, Lewis Carroll
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Travel Between The Pages 