Works of art (in this widest sense) are ways of building a meaningful community.
John-Paul Flintoff, How to Change the World
Because really, what else would you do with a broken fridge?
(Image stolen from Lawrence Public Library.)
“It felt like waking up and finding myself in one of my novels. It’s beyond surreal.”
Author James Renner discusses the recent rescue of three kidnapped Cleveland women and their startling role in his mystery novel The Man from Primrose Lane.
Pete Fromm’s As Cool As I Am is now a major motion picture starring Claire Danes, James Mardsen, and Sarah Bolger!
4. You will buy another copy of a book you already own if you encounter a particularly beautiful edition. Fancy endpapers! Genuine leather binding! It’s a collector’s item, really. You’d be foolish NOT to buy it.
“The Hanging Garden is a novel for our time—a story about parentless children, mistreated by a world that, by its lights, intends no harm but nonetheless does enduring damage. … David Marr, White’s biographer, and others dedicated to White’s memory, decided to give us The Hanging Garden. They were right to do so, and we should thank them for it.”—John Sutherland, The New York Times Book Review
Ireland’s newest stamp features an entire short story written by a Dublin teenager.
On this day in 1536, Anne Boleyn was led to the Tower Green and beheaded. Read more in BRING UP THE BODIES.
Bookmarked: Pages Being Shared in the Picador Office
Elizabeth gives you literary Legos! (Spoiler alert: They are super awesome times the biggest number ever.)
While enjoying her staycation, Gabrielle came across a mashup of Daft Punk’s new single, “Get Lucky,” and Soul Train. It speaks for itself.
Daniel enjoyed Bret Easton Ellis’ AMA on Reddit, and finally got around to Steven Soderbergh’s takedown of the current state of filmmaking in his keynote at the San Francisco International Film Festival.
Sold!
(For more vintage school library posters from the 1960’s courtesy of BuzzFeed, click here.)
“I am a storyteller, so before I propose a toast I will tell you a story.
Once upon a time, there was a boy who learned to read at the age of five. This changed his life…”
To read Mario Vargas Llosa’s 2010 Nobel Prize speech, click here.
![For a larger image of Pop Chart Lab’s creation, click here.[via: Laughing Squid]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/34879e37c1e00285847562890b1a2f3d/tumblr_mmy81967Kj1rruvf1o1_r1_500.jpg)
For a larger image of Pop Chart Lab’s creation, click here.
[via: Laughing Squid]
“I’d like to be at home, in my apartment by the sea in Devon, just a few yards from the waves, sitting in the sunshine by a window, smiling, and picking up some vast immersive novel.”
—Hilary Mantel on her ideal reading experience in her fantastic New York Times By the Book interview.
![Has your to-be-read pile grown out of control? There is a Japanese word for that![via: GalleyCat]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/c3eb805abc44821d5ab20d0a221d866f/tumblr_mmweotTucX1rruvf1o1_500.jpg)
It is better not to try people, not to force them to desperation…Full bellies breed gentle manners.
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