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Category Archives: Writing
Museum of Innocence
Turkey’s most celebrated living novelist, Orhan Pamuk, is turning his fictional Museum of Innocence into a real tourist attraction in Istambul. The winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature is transforming an old building in central istambul into a … Continue reading
Covering Lolita
Many thanks to author and jounalist Dieter Zimmer for this post: Vladimir Nabokov’s modern classic, Lolita, has been banned many time since its first publication in the U.S. . Author Dieter Zimmer has put together an impressive collection of 150 book covers … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, Freedom of Speech, History, USA, Writing
Tagged Banned Books, censorship, Lolita, Nabokov
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BANNED ! … Books Week
September 25−October 2, 2010 Banned Books Week (BBW) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment. Held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of free and open access to information … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Freedom of Speech, History, Libraries, USA, Writing
Tagged Banned Books, censorship
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What’s So Scary About These Books ?
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Tagged Banned Books, censorship
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From Here to There
The Hand Drawn Map Association is an ongoing website project to archive user submitted hand-drawn maps and other interesting diagrams. The association was created by Philadelphia based artist Kris Harzinski who has collected his favorite maps from the collection to … Continue reading
More Burroughs, Aleister Crowley & Jimmy Page
With William Burroughs in the literary news again these days, a mind-bending article from the June 1975 issue of Crawdaddy magazine has surfaced: When I was first asked to write an article on the Led Zeppelin group, to be based … Continue reading
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Tagged Aleister Crowley, Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin, Trance, United Kingdom
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Do Bad Books Make Great Satire ?
Washington Post “Book World” fiction critic Ron Charles has outdone himself in his third video book review, this time for Ape House, the follow up to Sara Gruen’s blockbuster, Water for Elephants. While he rather delightfully trashes Gruen’s “literary” twaddle , saying it … Continue reading
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And So It Goes…
Many thanks to Perry Hall for this post: Good News For Vonnegut Fans: The Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library is a public benefit, nonprofit organization championing the literary, artistic, and cultural contributions of the late writer, artist and Indiana native Kurt … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Freedom of Speech, Libraries, Museums, USA, Writing
Tagged Kurt Vonnegut
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If You Want To Help An Author…
Thanks to reader Ret Marut for this post. If you have friends or family members who have written a book: 1. Buy your friend’s book. Encourage other friends to buy the book. Go to your local library or bookstore … Continue reading
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Visions of the Apocalypse
After a summer of reading Justin Cronin’s The Passage, Margaret Atwood’s After the Flood ,Marcel Theroux’s Far North and re-reading A Canticle for Leibowitz, I was well and truly psyched for next month’s Scientific American “ Apocalit” features. All things … Continue reading
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Travel Between The Pages 