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Category Archives: Writing
Five Oceans in a Teaspoon
Five Oceans in a Teaspoon is a collaboration between artist/writer Warren Lehrer and poet/investigative journalist Dennis J Bernstein (Paper Crown Press, 2019) that reunites the oral and pictorial traditions of storytelling with the printed page.
Is This The Prequel You’ve Been Waiting For?
Suzanne Collins, author of the blockbuster best-selling, major-motion-picture-adapted Hunger Games trilogy, has done what most writers of runaway best-selling, major-motion-picture-adapted book series eventually do, and has gone and written a prequel. The prequel, titled The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, is … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Film, movies, Writing
Tagged Hunger Games, Publishing, Suzanne Collins, YA novels
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Not Available in Paperback
The Louisiana State University Special Collections Library has recently announced an exciting new acquisition. This is a rare copy of Hartmann Schedel’s The Nuremberg Chronicle, printed in 1493 in Germany, in the city that gives the work its name. This incunabula represents one of … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Libraries, Maps, Writing
Tagged Germany, Incunabula, Publishing and Printing
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Gandalf has a blog
Starting in 1999 with his casting as Gandalf and continuing through 2003, Ian McKellan wrote a blog called The Grey Book about his experiences starring in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movie trilogy. If you are a fan, you’ll find … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Film, movies, Writing
Tagged J. R. R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, New Zealand, the Hobbit
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Dracula 2020
To hype the new version of Bram Stoker’s Dracula on BBC and Netflix , the team at BBC Creative has designed some impressive billboards. The ads, which are currently up in London and Birmingham, use a brilliant combination of stakes … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Europe, Film, Writing
Tagged BBC, Bram Stoker, Gothic Novels, Netflix
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The Life You Can Save
In 2009, philosopher Peter Singer wrote the first edition of The Life You Can Save to demonstrate why we should care about and help those living in global extreme poverty, and how easy it is to improve and even save lives … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Asia, Books, ebooks, South America, Writing
Tagged hunger, poverty
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Older Than the Moon
“Before the moon I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman’s power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the roots of islands, older than the Making, older than the moon.” – Ursula K. Le Guin, from Tehanu: … Continue reading
Joy Ride
Richard Brautigan
Posted in USA, Writing
Tagged In Watermelon Sugar, Poetry, Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing
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The end is silence
h/t Grant Snider
What You Need To Keep Warm
Neil Gaiman has composed his newest written work: a freeform poem to launch UNHCR’s Winter Emergency Appeal for refugees across the Middle East. What You Need to be Warm by Neil Gaiman A baked potato of a winter’s night to wrap … Continue reading
Travel Between The Pages 