Want your own little piece of Japanese architecture on your bookshelf?
We love crafty things and crafty people. Maybe that’s just an extension of being a book lover, but by golly, does it bring us joy. So when we heard about… Read more »
The intersection of poetry and science is more likely than you think
If you remember, we talked a few posts back about the healing powers of poetry, but here’s another instance where poetry and science unexpectedly connects. In a recent Bioscience paper… Read more »
The newest combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell is Pizza Hut and NFL
If you were a student in the mid-eighties to nineties, you might remember the oft-sought coupon reward your elementary school teachers would bribe you with to encourage reading. The feeling… Read more »
Translated literature gets its due at the National Book Awards
In case you weren’t following along for the National Book Awards, here’s the skinny on the winners: 2018 Winner of Fiction: The Friend by Sigrid Nunez 2018 Winner of Nonfiction:… Read more »
The typewriter that kept coming back
Reportedly, Mark Twain claimed to be the first author to use the typewriter, and his entire manuscript for Life on the Mississippi was submitted to the publisher in typeface. But, despite his… Read more »
Gone fishing: the Hemingway edition
A recently concluded auction at Nate D. Sanders Auctions saw the sale of 1935 letter penned by Ernest Hemingway describing the vicious battle for a blue marlin at sea that… Read more »
The resurgence of the censoring asterisk
Depending on your level of presence on Twitter, you might be familiar with the current linguistic practice of replacing some letters—typically vowels—with asterisks, ie. obf*scation, for emphasis in tweets. Here’s an… Read more »
Fantasy or reality: does bookselling live up to the hype?
Listen. We all have it. Just one small fantasy lurks in the back of our minds. As complete giant book nerds who wish deeply to spend the rest of our… Read more »
The South African apartheid and the burning of books
It’s been twenty-four years since the apartheid reign in South Africa had been put to rest, and since today is a spooky day, we’re going to talk about another chilling… Read more »
On wielding the full stop to its full potential
According to English professor Joe Moran of Liverpool John Moores University in BBC, the most powerful tool in our writing repertoire is knowing how to use the period properly. Mastering… Read more »