A Writer's Desk

Well here's quite an odd collection from A Journey Round My Skull .

Fernando Perez, outfielder for the Tampa Bay Rays, writes a short piece about poetry and baseball for the Poetry Foundation. From the piece....

Praise the Heavens - Weekly World News is now on Google Books. Scan and read your favorite issues from days gone by... I Married Bigfoot Fac...

Enjoy these odd titles, care of Asylum .

The medicine chest of the soul. - Inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes

The University of Washington has a groovy collection of advertising dated from 1867 to 1918.

Book Patrol has an interesting post about Hemingway, 1920s Paris, and heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey. From the story... In 1922, Heavywe...

Ishmael Reed's "Army Nurse," read by the author:

New York Times Magazine has an extensive article about bringing Maurice Sendak's brilliant children's book to the silver screen. Fr...

It's easy to take iconic characters for granted. We just assume that the moment a Batman or a Rambo were dreamed up, the writer knew he ...

The list, and a mighty fine one what with Jose Saramago and Margaret Atwood in the mix, care of Brainz .

Clive Thompson, in WIRED , talks about the new ways of literacy in the world due to all of the latest technologies. From the piece... As the...

The Telegraph tells of another exciting archeological find - a fragment from the world's oldest Bible. From the story... The discovery ...

You could do worse in this recession than by making money selling off your old comic books. So says the National Post . From the story... Pe...

A little about slang from the 1930s , care of the University of Virginia... The early 1930s were chaotic years in the United States. The Wal...

Do you have an interest? UC-Davis has your back . From their website... The British Women Romantic Poet's Project is producing an online...

There's a new blog, The Art of American Book Covers, that I'll probably be frequenting more and more. One of their latest posts was...

This is the question the Oxford American asked literate minded judges. The results can be found here .

Facts are fun, though it is not obvious why this should be so. Every day, the newspaper brings new unhappy facts to the door: Tap water in G...

I must say - it's pretty damn depressing when the nation's most literate city has to close its libraries for a week because of budg...