Artist who recreated classic books for the gallery dies
Last week, we wrote about the contemporary craze for visual art made from the pages of old books. While we didn’t mention the work of artist Steve Wolfe, whose death last month was… Read more »
Major literary holidays other than Read an eBook Day
Americans take their holidays seriously. Just look at the orgy of barbecuing that occurs on Labor Day, the orgy of turkey consumption that occurs on Thanksgiving, or the orgy of… Read more »
“Nothing but tea”: eating one’s way through literature
When fictional characters sit down to eat, what does it look like? One dedicated graphic designer set out to cook, bake, scrounge, and otherwise recreate fifty fictional meals, and the… Read more »
This week in 1913: Swann’s Way is published, Georg Trakl gives a bad reading of a fantastic work
Just before one of its darkest moments came the twentieth century’s most exciting year . . . It was the year Henry Ford first put a conveyer belt in his car factory, and the… Read more »
Ode to IMPAC Dublin and Translations
Five out of ten of this year’s shortlist nominees for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, often billed as “the world’s richest literary award,” but more precisely the world’s richest… Read more »