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Tag Archives: Ernest Hemingway
Happy Public Domain Day Eve
Way back in 1998 Congress passed the Copyright Term Extension Act extending US copyrights by 20 years to life-plus-70 for human authors and 95 years total for corporate authors. The extension was retrospective, so works in the public domain went … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Film, movies, Music, USA, Writing
Tagged Bessie Smith, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Public Domain, The Great Gatsby
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Help Save a Paris Landmark
I have had the pleasure of visiting Paris many times over the last 40 years. And ever time that I’m in Paris the iconic bookstore Shakespeare and Company is one of my first stops. Even if you have never been … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Bookstore Tourism, Europe, History, Libraries
Tagged Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Paris, Shakespeare and Company
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Writers Not Writing
Posted in Books, History, Photography, Writing
Tagged Albert Camus, Ernest Hemingway, Kurt Vonnegut, William S. Burroughs
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Discovering the Lost Generation in Paris
Decades ago, I made my first biblio-pilgrimage to the iconic Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris. These days it’s not quite the same place now that it has an adjoining café that serves American bagels and brownies. And then there are the … Continue reading
All Good Books Are Alike
“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the … Continue reading
Don’t let the bastards cheer you up
I never tire of London-based artist Harland Miller’s brilliant send-ups of iconic Penguin book covers. His faux vintage covers are always on point.
Posted in Art, Books, Europe
Tagged Ernest Hemingway, Penguin Books, Penguin Classics, posters
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Into The Wild
The South Africa-based design studio Muti has released a killer series of book cover redesigns for group of iconic novels. I love the fresh typography and the great color palette.
Posted in Africa, Art, Books, Writing
Tagged Chinua Achebe, Cormac McCarthy, Ernest Hemingway, Frank Herbert, J. R. R. Tolkien
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Summer Reading
Posted in Art, Books, Writing
Tagged Cartoons, Charles Dickens, Ernest Hemingway, Tom Gauld
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