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Category Archives: Writing
Flowers in the summer, Fires in the fall
Autumn Fires Robert Louis Stevenson In the other gardens And all up in the vale, From the autumn bonfires See the smoke trail! Pleasant summer over, And all the summer flowers, The red fire blazes, The grey smoke towers. Sing … Continue reading
Revenge of the Librarians
Regular visitors to Travel Between The Pages will be well aware of my appreciation for cartoonist Tom Gauld’s hilarious comics. So, I was happy to discover that he has a new book of cartoons that will be released in the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Bookstore Tourism, Libraries, Writing
Tagged Bookselling, Cartoons, Comics
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the impossibility of being human
BEASTS BOUNDING THROUGH TIME Charles Bukowski Van Gogh writing his brother for paints Hemingway testing his shotgun Celine going broke as a doctor of medicine the impossibility of being human Villon expelled from Paris for being a thief Faulkner drunk … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Writing
Tagged American Poets, Poetry, Vincent Van Gogh, William S. Burroughs
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The only lasting truth is change.
When she was nine years old, Octavia Butler saw a sci-fi film called “Devil Girl From Mars” and thought to herself: “I can write a better story than that.” She went on to become the first widely recognized Black female … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Film, movies, USA, Writing
Tagged Octavia Butler, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction and Fantasy
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Summer Island
I haven’t paid much attention to the deluge of content that has been generated lately by AI machines, but something about the Summer Island project captured my attention. Summer Island is a comic, with all the artwork generated by Midjourney AI. To … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Film, Photography, Tech, Writing
Tagged AI, Artificial Intelligence, Comics, Illustration, MidJourney, Wicker Man
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Peripherals
The news that a streaming TV network has announced the upcoming release of a series based on a novel rarely rouses much interest here at Travel Between The Pages World HQ, however the drop of a teaser-trailer for The Peripheral, … Continue reading
Sleeping in the Forest
Sleeping in the Forest I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept as never before, a stone on the riverbed, nothing between me … Continue reading
The Favorite Poem Project
I recently discovered a wonderful series of Youtube videos that were filmed for the Favorite Poem Project. The collection of 50 short video documentaries showcases individual Americans reading and speaking personally about poems they love. During the one-year open call for submissions, … Continue reading
the path to individuality and personal conscience
“Great poets feel into the future with most sensitive antennas, and live out ahead of us, a piece of future development, and yet unrealized potential. Poets and philosophers, if they do not sell out to please, but have the courage … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, Writing
Tagged Hermann Hesse, Philosophy, Poets, The Glass Bead Game
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