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Category Archives: Writing
It’s Not Hoarding If It’s Books
Posted in Books, Bookstore Tourism, USA, Writing
Tagged Bibliophilia, Book collecting
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Summer Reading
President Barack Obama recently posted on Facebook his summer reading list. This year it’s a mix of fiction, memoirs, and instructive non-fiction. If you are searching for a good vacation read, you can never go wrong following the lead of … Continue reading
Posted in Books, USA, Writing
Tagged Colson Whitehead, Haruki Murakami, Hilary Mantel, Ted Chiang, Toni Morrison
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August, you’re just an erotic hallucination
“Here in the electric dusk your naked lover tips the glass high and the ice cubes fall against her teeth. It’s beautiful Susan, her hair sticky with gin, Our Lady of Wet Glass-Rings on the Album Cover, streaming with hatred … Continue reading
RIP Toni Morrison
You think dark is just one color, but it ain’t. There’re five or six kinds of black. Some silky, some woolly. Some just empty. Some like fingers. And it don’t stay still, it moves and changes from one kind of … Continue reading
The summer night is like a perfection of thought
The House Was Quiet and The World Was Calm BY WALLACE STEVENS The house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became the book; and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book. The house was quiet … Continue reading
August is the month…
“August is the month of last chances.” F. Nietzsche
Visit New Byblos in the Springtime
I am an enormous fan of Israeli sci-fi writer Lavie Tidhar, if you haven’t read his work, it’s worth checking-out. So, I was intrigued to discover that he has teamed-up with puzzle writer Jake Olefsky to create an interactive sci-fi … Continue reading
A festival for us (bibliophiles)
Now that it’s officially August, I was checking to see when the National Book Festival was happening in Washington D.C. and I found the wonderful poster for this year’s event. If you can make it to DC, it’s always worth … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Tourism, USA, Writing
Tagged Book Festivals, Library of Congress, Washington D.C
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Travel Between The Pages 