A Writer's Desk on Haitus

Greetings faithful readers,

I hope things are going well and you're enjoying your summer. I'm going to put this blog on haitus until I fashion a new website for myself and my writing.

In the meantime, I'm not going anywhere, really.

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Thanks for reading and see you all soon!

Iconic Book Covers That Changed Over Time

Enjoy.

FIrst Printed Book in English Sells at Auction

It's 540 years old and was sold for this much.

Brigham Young's Short-Lived Mormon Aphabet

Interesting story from Slate, here.

Chasing Orwell's Ghost

A writer travels to the Scottish island of Jura where Orwell spent some time with tubercular fever.

Enjoy.

What Did Virginia Woolf's Last Photograph Look Like, Anyway?

This.

What Did Jane Austen Look Like, Anyway?

This.

The Art of Bookstore Shelving

The Atlantic takes a look at the intricacies involved, here.

How NYC Inspired Madeline

The Daily Beast has the story, here.

The Secrets of a Creative Brain

The Atlantic looks deep.

The Little Engine That Could...

...feminist hero?

A Cross-Country Traveling Bookstore and Publisher

Thoreau on Skunk Cabbage...

...and what it can teach us about the meaning of life. Enjoy!

The Lost Beauty of Book Endpapers

Enjoy!

Nabakov

30 Vintage Photos of People in Libraries

Enjoy!

Vintage World Cup Posters

Enjoy!

Where to Start with Jack Kirby

The 18th Century Art of Fireworks

Kaboom!

Books Written from the Villian's Point of View

A list, care of the Huffington Post.

The Literature of Soccer

In honor of the World Cup, a reading list.

66 Facts about the English Language You Might Not Know

Enjoy!

Getting to Know Mindy Kaling

The Best (Female) Novelists Working Today

The list, care of the Guardian.

A New York Rare Book Dealer

A New York Rare Book Dealer from Louise Dewast on Vimeo.

The Disney Channel's Lost Short Live Action Hansel and Gretel from 1983 and Directed by Tim Burton

Books with Skulls on Them

Bone up on them, here.

The World Cup if the World Cup was Full of Writers

Philip Roth - goalkeeper.

Enjoy.

Michelle Obama on Maya Angelou

Literature Inspired Sneakers

Thanks to New Balance.

Shepard Fairey

Shepard Fairey: Obey This Film from Brett Novak on Vimeo.

The Report Cards of Famous Writers

Enjoy!

Top 10 Feminist Books

The list, care of the Guardian.

The Only Known Recordings of C.S. Lewis

Enjoy.

When Walker Evans Visited the New York Public Library

Enjoy!

Times New Roman

10 Books to Read Before the Summer Movie Comes Out

The list, care of the Huffington Post.

John Cheever Reads "The Swimmer"

Stephen King vs. Edgar Allan Poe - Rap Battle

37 Deeply Satisfying Palindromes

The list, care of BuzzFeed.

James Joyce - the Syphilitic?

Indeed.

Gisèle Freund’s Photographs of Modernist Heroes

 

Enjoy.

The Bible of Barbecue

6 American Sites that Inspired Great Books

The list, care of Airship Daily.

9 Geniuses Who Were Coffee Addicts

The list, care of Huffington Post.

Does Handwriting Matter Anymore?

Short answer: Yes.

Book Benches in London

They're coming.

9 Muses Who Inspired Great Literature

The list, care of the Huffington Post.

47 Charming Facts about Children's Books

100 Best Pieces of Journalism in 2013

The list, care of the Atlantic. Happy reading.

Anais Nin Reads From Her Diary

19th Century French Book Advertisements

Enjoy, mon ami.

10 Best Time Travel Books

The list, care of the Guardian.

Geoff Dyer Got a Bottle of Beer

He wrote about it.

Eight Great Books about Comic Books

The list, care of Publisher's Weekly.

Happy 75th Birthday, Madeline

Enjoy it with cake if you so choose
Eat ice cream and blow some balloons.

More on Madeline, here.

Toni Morrison Writing Coming Soon on a Chipotle Cup.

Wait...what?!

The 100 Best Comic Book Characters of All Time

The list, care of Paste.

A Tour of Chained Libraries

That is libraries with books chained to the walls.

Enjoy!

Mars in Pulp Fiction

Famed Sarajevo Library Opens...

...22 years after its destruction.

27 Bizarre Books That Exist

Enjoy.

The Last 13 Feminist Bookstores in North America Are...

...these ones.

The World's Smallest Comic

Happy Mother's Day

The 10 Best Memoirs about the Worst Mothers.

The Weidest, Most WTF Images Found in College Textbooks

Enjoy!