- If Only Every Book Could Finish Like This I do. I really do want every book to leave you wondering why every book isn’t as special as The Fault in Our Stars. Hot damn, people!! Sometimes books best-sell for a reason. It is futile to add more noise to the Internet’s democratic blessing of this work. Observe this, from Amazon: That is over […]
- What’s the Deal With Garp? Readers, working my way through my post baby book queue, I finally finished a book I started and stopped many times over the last year: THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP, by John Irving. And I hated it. Absolutely hated it. Like threw it to the floor and considered stomping on it I hated it so […]
- The Sisters Brothers: Hilarious, Murderous, Loveable Psychopaths Had to DVR the World Cup game to finish this one. A hilarious picaresque novel about Eli and Charlie Sisters, two brothers who fumble down the Oregon Coast to California, where they’ve been hired to kill a man named Herman Kermit Warm. If you’ve ever enjoyed a Cohen Brothers’ movie, or ever enjoyed the darkly […]
- Art to Make a Bookworm Glow For your Literary Hump Day, some book art from Kaspen, who created this lovely sculpture for Anagram Bookshop in Prague. Lovely.
- If Libraries Could Get Any Sexier… There’s this: The shot before the kiss… Woody Allen, Romy Schneider, two ladders, and an open book.
- Hemingway Talks of Children, Baseball, and Death It’s crunch time for baseball, and we couldn’t help but smile as we read this letter from Hemingway to Peter Viertel, the director of the film adaptation of The Old Man and the Sea in which he talks of his children, betting on baseball at the ball park, and death. Thanks to Bauman Rare Books for sharing:
- 30 Literary Works to Read Before You Turn 30 I have always been a voracious reader. Even as a toddler, I would insist on my parents reading practically every book on the shelf before bedtime. I loved “reading” THE BERENSTAIN BEARS and LITTLE MISS CHATTERBOX to my dolls and stuffed animals. Books transformed me to a new place, introduced me to new ideas and experiences, […]
- Are Drunken Pirates Literary Men? Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day! To celebrate pirate literary figures such as Captain Hook from PETER PAN, Long John Silver from TREASURE ISLAND, and Ragnar from ATLAS SHRUGGED, we hereby submit to you the official Drunken Sailor: First Annual International Talk Like a Pirate Day Drunken Sailor Sing-Along a Go Go video: Yarrr!! Get […]
- A Literary Map of Manhattan The New York Times Book Review has created A Literary Map of Manhattan: an interactive site where you can roam freely to discover where characters from your favorite New York City novels “lived, worked, played, drank, walked, and looked at ducks.” Once you’ve discovered where exactly, from the northern tip of the island to the […]
- Models Can be Literary Ladies, too Imagine our excitement when we stumbled across this article showing photos of beautiful female and male models from New York’s Fashion Week reading literary books! They were photographed reading books by Evelyn Waugh, William Golding, and F. Scott Fitzgerald to name a few. Just a bit of proof that there’s a lot more to models than […]
