Oct
26
Thinking Outside The Book
October 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment
These are books. These are also books. …and so is this. What else? Enjoy this TED Talk on next generation digital books: “Software developer Mike Matas demos the first full-length interactive book for the iPad — with clever, swipeable video and graphics and some very cool data visualizations to play with. The book is “Our [...]
Oct
24
The Revolution will Be Novelized
October 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment
We’ve all seen how literature is a tool of protest and revolution: Publishing your views sure beats throwing molotov cocktails, and it also seems to be much more effective. We’ve blogged on this in the past, here. (I am looking forward to the first books about the Occupy Wall Street movement.) In this vein, friends [...]
Oct
17
“Commonplace Books” For The Modern Age
October 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment
I am not sure where or how the rather dusty term “commonplace book” came up recently, but it strikes me that by definition a “commonplace book” could easily translate to the modern day blog. A commonplace book is “any manuscript that collects material along a common theme by an individual”, and they were a common [...]
Oct
7
Tomas Tranströmer has won the Noble Prize in Literature. Here‘s a bit about it from the LA Times: Nobel Prize winner Tomas Transtromer, in translation Poet Tomas Tranströmer is well known in Sweden, but here in the U.S. he hasn’t become the household name of, say, your average Kardashian. Winning the Nobel Prize in literature [...]