Jun
21
Ode to those Summer family trips – twelve hours in the wood panel station wagon, too many thousand bottles of beer on the wall, and “Mom, he’s touching me!” screams from the back seat – all for the sake of 5.3 days in the quasi hallucinogenic splendor of Disney World. Those were the days…But these [...]
Jun
13
The Best Novels You Never Read
June 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Stranger Things Happen, by Kelly Link is one of my all time favorite books. I am not alone, it made New York Magazine’s Best Novels You Never Read feature. They’ve got some additional picks like The Darling by Richard Banks that I find highly suspect, but overall it’s a good list worth visiting.
Jun
8
Book Jackets
June 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Sometimes a book jacket can make you remember a book more then the story itself. I found an amazing website that’s called Fwis which hosts many of yesterday and today’s best book jackets. Check out the website to see more jackets and attributed designers covers.fwis.com.
Jun
5
I Like That Font and I Cannot Lie (Sung to The Tune of I Like Big Butts)
June 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Slate, a place I always can rely upon for literary fetishism, has a great piece about fonts. I do have an emotional relationship to fonts — When I feel tired and lazy I use Courier, need to be professional Times Roman, and poetic Palentino. Now there’s a font I had never heard of, but, well, [...]