Feb

18

Things You Can Do With Books

February 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment

Things You Can Do With Books, and other tales…

Jan

11

Visual Literacy

January 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment

I found this piece particularly interesting in light of how graphically driven content is these days – with iPads and eReaders providing so much of our reading material does it mean that we will become more visually literate as we gobble up the images in rapid succession? Visual Literacy of Our Images By Rachel Beth Egenhoefer (Furtherfield) [...]

Dec

28

A Bookish Mystery of Beauty

December 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment

It started with a wonderful creation, left anonymously on a table in a library…

Dec

14

My Cameo at The Rumpus: True Story

December 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Hearthrobs and comic books.

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 [...]

Jul

20

All My Friends Have Gone The F*ck To Sleep.

July 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment

In the snarky vein of Go The F*ck To Sleep, the book marketing sensation of recent internet meme fame, comes a new one: All My Friends Are Dead. It is zapping over the electron highway to a social network near you – and soon, very soon, probably to the bookshelves of at least half the [...]

Jun

9

Two Smallish (But Enormous) Things

June 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment

First, a comic about writing and drawing for a living… Small Potatoes by Paul Madonna (Click here to read The Rumpus interview with Paul Madonna. Read more Small Potatoes at angrylittlepotatoes.com) Now, a poem – Rita Mae Reese’s first book, The Alphabet Conspiracy, includes a short poem called “Waiting for Lightning”: Who I am begins [...]

May

25

Your Canvas Can Be Anything.

May 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment

There are more ways than one to skin a cat. Documentaries can be hidden inside illustrated mini-comics (Wendy MacNaughton’s Meanwhile), magazines can be enacted live on stage via the folks at Pop-Up Magazine: Stories, documentary films, interviews, photography, facts, and radio all presented on stage by well known artists (also, you can get drinks at [...]

Dec

23

The Millionth Word, and Other Amazing Spectacles

December 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment

It’s momentous and spectacular when our ideas of what is readable, watchable, seeable, speakable, or writable are pushed to their outer limits – but perhaps it should just be normal?

Aug

26

Comics. We Want to Read More of Them.

August 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Comics. Have they been demoted to coffee break Facebook ephemera, or are they alive and kicking butt out in the Darwinian thunderdome of the litsphere? Regardless, some of the comic fodder found online right now is goddamn brilliant. For example, check out The Oatmeal. Here’s a teaser (click the banner). More serious comic book fare [...]

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