I greatly enjoyed Ross King’s recent books of art history, including The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism, Brunelleschi’s Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture, and Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling. So I am looking forward to reading his […]
From More Intelligent Life: “[Geoff] Sawers’s Literary Map of the United States of America includes more than 200 novelists, poets and cartoonists, and the selection process, as in all literary contests, had an element of the arbitrary. First, Sawers and his co-artist, Bridget Hannigan, drew […]
Technology of composition can inspire. Is it the same with e-readers? From MIT Technology Review: “At a time when new media are proliferating, it is tempting to imagine that authors, thinking about how their writing will appear on devices such as electronic readers, tablet computers, […]
From Flavorwire, 10 Awesome Bookstores Repurposed from Unused Structures. My favorite is LibrerÃa El Ateneo Grand Splendid, a converted 1920s movie palace in Argentina:
Today Amazon released its new Kindle ereaders. Among the new models is the Kindle Paperwhite. I think this finally looks like an ereader that I might like. In particular the screen is brighter, the resolution of the type is better, and it comes with a […]
What kind of reader are you? A book abandoner? The bookophile? The Atlantic has a diagnostic guide. Blogger Jen Doll quotes New Yorker writer Mark O’Connell, who confesses to his own reading habits. “’ll be reading a novel and thoroughly enjoying it. Then I’ll be […]
In conjunction with its Celebration of the Book, the Library of Congress has opened an exhibit of the most influential books in American history. They aren’t the best, per se, but they are those that made a lasting impact on our culture. From their press […]
Bibliophiles will love this film: Epilogue: The Futue of Print. As part of an undergraduate thesis, Hanah Ryu Chung interviewed independent book sellers and print publishers and artists in the Toronto book community about the future of print. The end result was this delightful documentary. […]
At some levels this looks like one of those commercial parodies you might see on Saturday Night Live. But no, it looks to be true. It’s disappearing ink. In an urge to create a sense of urgency for readers to actually read the book they […]