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Category Archives: Writing
Monday with Murakami
Regular visitors to TBTP are well aware of my admiration for the Japanese author Haruki Murakami. I recently discovered this list of his five favorite books. Unsurprisingly, they are on my favorites list as well. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Books, Writing
Tagged Fiction, Haruki Murakami, J.D. Salinger, novels, Richard Brautigan
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Censorship is as American as apple pie
Although there is much ballyhoo and bluster in the United States about free speech, in reality censorship and book banning have been endemic since first European colonists arrived. The act of censorship, while theoretically limited by the First Amendment to … Continue reading
Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.
I recently stumbled upon an interesting take on the “rules for writers” list from the great British author Zadie Smith. Her list offers an excellent balance of the practical, the philosophical, and the emotional. When still a child, make sure … Continue reading
Follow That Author
Bookfeed.io is a simple new way of following your favorite authors. You provide a list of writers you like, and Bookfeed generates an RSS feed with their new books. The website is a tool that allows you to specify a … Continue reading
The Enemies of Books
The Enemies of Books is a book on biblioclasts and book preservation by the 19th-century bibliophile and book collector William Blades. The book was first published in 1880 and has been republished in different editions many times since. In the book, Blades, a well-known collector, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, History, Libraries, Writing
Tagged Bibliophiles, book banning, book preservation
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This is the feeling I get before I take a plane
HOW TO WRITE Anne Waldman Perhaps I’m kidding myself about the life I lead Sometimes I feel I’m dying like a lot of things I see around me Then I turn on the TV and understand that everything must still … Continue reading
Literacy and Justice
It seems that every day brings another story of book banning or book burning in the United States. Anyone who believes in protecting freedom of the press should be terrified by the assaults on liberty from the Christo-Fascist rightwing mobs … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Bookstore Tourism, USA, Writing
Tagged Banned Books, book burning, Maus, Toni Morrison
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Down and Out in Paris
In 1928, a former Colonial police officer and aspiring author named Eric Arthur Blair moved from his London home to Paris in order to buckle down and launch his writing career. The move didn’t work out so well, but it … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, History, Maps, Tourism, Writing
Tagged Eric Arthur Blair, George Orwell, London, Paris
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The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men
John Steinbeck took the title of his 1937 novel “Of Mice and Men” from a line contained in the penultimate stanza of ” To a Mouse”, On Turning her up in her Nest, with the Plough, November 1785. by Robert … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, USA, Writing
Tagged John Steinbeck, Poetry, Robert Burns, Scotland
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Travel Between The Pages 