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Category Archives: Writing
Alice in Wonderland
It’s been a while since I shared another example from the seemingly endless versions of Lewis Carroll’s classic Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland. This version from the 1920s features 48 full-color illustrations by Margaret W. Tarrant. The illustrator: Margaret Winifred Tarrant (1888 – … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Europe, Libraries, Writing
Tagged Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, book illustration, Lewis Carroll
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We shall by morning Inherit the earth
MUSHROOMS by Sylvia Plath Overnight, very Whitely, discreetly, Very quietly Our toes, our noses Take hold on the loam, Acquire the air. Nobody sees us, Stops us, betrays us; The small grains make room. Soft fists insist on Heaving the … Continue reading
Just a postcard from Kafka
I recently stumbled on this postcard from the German National Library that is dated 1918 from Franz Kafka to his publisher Kurt Wolff. Personally, I never sent postcards to my publisher, but then again he was a terrible person. And … Continue reading
The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip
I was today years old when I discovered that America’s greatest living short story writer George Saunders published a children’s book more than 20 years ago. Issued in 2000 by Villard Books, an imprint of Random House, The Very Persistent … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, USA, Writing
Tagged book illustration, Children's literature, George Saunders, goats
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What’s the Word
Merriam-Webster dictionary reports that its word of the year is the manipulative, misdirecting term that causes the target to question the surety of their own sanity, is taken from the title of the George Cukor 1944 classic film Gaslight. Although in … Continue reading
Posted in USA, Writing
Tagged codify, dictionary, English language, gaslight, oligarch
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Everybody Loves a Travel Guidebook Parody
Here in North America the travel guidebook author and travel show host Rick Steves is almost universally loved, but is also the target of good natured satire as well. While I’ve met Rick, and even spent an afternoon hanging with … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Tourism, Travel Writing, USA, Writing
Tagged McSweeney, Rick Steves, Satire, Travel Guidebooks
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Still Autumn
Autumn – Jane Hirshfield Again the wind flakes gold-leaf from the trees and the painting darkens— as if a thousand penitents kissed an icon till it thinned back to bare wood, without diminishment.
Bizarre Books
Brian Lake who manages Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers in Bloomsbury, London has compiled a volume of truly odd and eccentric book covers in his new book Librorum Ridiculorum A Compendium of Bizarre Books. The books in the collection range from fairly … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Bookstore Tourism, Europe, Writing
Tagged Antiquarian Books, Bloomsbury, bookcovers, Bookstores, London
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It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
George Orwell’s seminal dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four became a powerful symbol of resistance to totalitarianism. Last month an impressive reproduction of the novel’s original manuscript was released by SP Books. The only surviving Orwell manuscript of any of his works … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, History, Libraries, Writing
Tagged 1984, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Travel Between The Pages 