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Category Archives: Writing
Enough with the GOATs
It’s that time of the year when the faculty of Lake Superior State University releases an annual list of words that they say deserve to be “banished” from our vocabularies over “misuse, overuse and uselessness.” “Our nominators insisted, and our … Continue reading
In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love.
On this day in 1960, Albert Camus, French author, philospopher and journalist, died in an automobile accident at age 46. In his coat pocket lay an unused train ticket. Camus had intense Motorphobia (fear of automobiles), and thus avoided riding … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, Public Transport, Writing
Tagged Albert Camus, Algeria, existentialism, France, Philosophy
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A Library Is A Spaceship
I have been a fan of the wildly imaginative writing of Isaac Asimov since I was a child. Recently I ran across a charming story about the iconic sci-fi author and a letter that he wrote in 1971. He sent … Continue reading
Running Into A New Year
Running Into A New Year I am running into a new year and the old years blow back like a wind that I catch in my hair like strong fingers like all my old promises and it will be hard … Continue reading
“The Best Things In Life Are Free”
Today copyrighted works from 1927 will enter the US public domain. They will be free for all to copy, share, and build upon. These include Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse and the final Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Film, History, Music, Photography, Theater, USA, Writing
Tagged Ernest Hemingway, Literature, Public Domain, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner
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Hymn to Time
HYMN TO TIME by Ursula K. Le Guin Time says “Let there be” every moment and instantly there is space and the radiance of each bright galaxy. And eyes beholding radiance. And the gnats’ flickering dance. And the seas’ expanse. … Continue reading
Breaking the Dickens Code
An international campaign to decipher the complex code that Charles Dickens used to write his notes has won a Times Higher Education Award, one of the most prestigious prizes in UK Higher Education. The University of Leicester, in collaboration with … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, History, Libraries, Writing
Tagged Charles Dickens, code breaking, English Literature
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Very, very bad reviews
I am a staunch adherent to the notion that all art and literature is subjective. The works that I enjoy, you might hate and vice versa. So, I am generally hesitant to comment negatively or post bad reviews. However, I … Continue reading
Keep Books Alive In Ukraine
A group of writers and booksellers (Carolyn Forche, Mitchell Kaplan, Christopher Merrill, Askold Melnyczuk, and Jane Unrue) have partnered with the Coral Gables Foundation to raise funds for direct support to booksellers, editors, printers, warehouse workers, libraries and librarians, and … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, Libraries, Museums, Writing
Tagged Bookselling, Russia, Ukraine
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a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read
“The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been around a really old-fashioned secondhand bookshop, one that looks as though they were designed by M. Escher on … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Bookstore Tourism, Writing
Tagged Paris, secondhand bookshops, Shakespeare and Company, Terry Pratchett
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Travel Between The Pages 