Kurt Vonnegut was well-known worldwide for his novels, such as Slaughterhouse-Five, Hocus Pocus and others. But he also made a contribution to culture that wasn’t as well known. Maya Eilam made this graphic from Vonnegut’s rejected master’s thesis in anthropology on the shape of stories. […]
The beloved Minneapolis mystery bookstore Once Upon a Crime was recently featured on NPR. Gary Schultze and Pat Frovarp met at the store, fell in love, married there, and ran the store for 14 years. Now they are retiring.
Happy New Year! Did you read any great books in 2015? One of my favorites is M Train, Patti Smith’s intellectual memoir that’s so hard to characterize. Is it a memoir? Not really. It is a wonderful account of the books, poems, music and ideas […]
I’ve always wanted to know more about George Armstrong Custer. In the hands of Pulitzer Prize winning author T.J. Stiles, Custer’s life is sure to be a wonderful read. My copy of Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America is already […]
Called the “most ambitious overview of map making ever undertaken,” by Edward Rothstein in the New York Times, The History of Cartography, published by the University of Chicago, is now available free online. The first three volumes can be found here. “People come to know […]
“In his new book, The Court and the World: American Law and the New Global Realities, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer details why American courts no longer have any choice about involving themselves in the law beyond U.S. borders.” Listen to his interview on NPR.
As part of a series they are calling The Paper Trail, NPR looks at the current state of paper, the book and bookstores:
Bill Gates shares his summer reading list with Esquire: “Heavy on nerd, light on non-nerd.”