Jan
18
Please Don’t Burn Our Digital “Books”
January 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment
In protest of digital book “burning”.
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) [...]
Jan
4
Shhhh. The Silence Is Coming.
January 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Turn off and unplug why don’t you?
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
21
It Is Impossible For Me to Do This Very Long List of Things…
December 21, 2011 | Comments Off
Lists of note…
Dec
14
My Cameo at The Rumpus: True Story
December 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Hearthrobs and comic books.
Dec
7
Stopping Traffic with Haiku
December 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment
If it’s been a while since you’ve checked out our parent site LiveWriters, here’s a great sample of what’s over there – (Livewriters curates a wonderful sampling of booknerdy, and free, videos every day.) And now for something completely different. Haiku Traffic Signs Bring Poetry To NYC Streets by NPR STAFF If you’re walking or biking [...]
Dec
2
Literary Round Up
December 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Here is something I’ve had on my list to share with you for a while – better late than never. Enjoy this transcript of a brilliant speech by the late David Foster Wallace. DAVID FOSTER WALLACE, IN HIS OWN WORDS IN MEMORIAM The world of letters has lost a giant. We have felt nourished by [...]
Nov
17
Imagination: We Are Its Shadow On The Earth
November 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment
“Our imagination flies; we are its shadow on the earth.” – Vladimir Nabokov My dear friend over at the O! Lightening blog did a delightful post on some music she loves (specifically Gillian Welch’s impossibly gorgeous new album) and she introduced that post with a poem of equal beauty by Czesław Miłosz (found also here on Whiskey River - [...]
Nov
12
Humiliation, Eternally Documented
November 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment
When we’re writing, it’s inevitable that we will draw from our own experience. Whether in terms of story or character, there will almost always be shades of the self, flitting like ghosts in the margins. With the rise of blogging, social networks, and reality television, the lines of privacy are blurred to practically nothing. I’ve [...]