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“Eleanor Stokes, a self-taught animator from Eugene, Oregon has won the Douglas Adams Animation Competition. She will receive an iPad supplied by Launchpad and a Don’t Panic Towel.”
The international competition, which saw entries from the UK, the US, Australia and Finland, invited creatives to produce an animation to illustrate a rare and prophetic audio recording of Douglas Adams talking in 1993 about the Evolution of the Book.
(Source: theliteraryplatform.com)
Christopher Brosius creates “In the Library.”
Brosius, well known for his avant garde take on traditional perfumery, makes scents like “Soaked Earth” that smells like wet dirt and mushrooms in a forest after a long rain.
What’s behind the scent?
The main note in this scent was copied from one of my favorite novels originally published in 1927. I happened to find a signed first edition in pristine condition many years ago in London. I was more than a little excited because there were only ever a hundred of these in the first place. It had a marvelous warm woody slightly sweet smell and I set about immediately to bottle it.
Read the full story behind the scent. If anyone out there has tried it, reblog and let us know.
(Source: madperfumista.com)
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You asked if I thought my fiction had changed anything in the culture and the answer is no. Sure, there’s been some scandal, but people are scandalized all the time; it’s a way of life for them. It doesn’t mean a thing. If you ask if I want my fiction to change anything in the culture, the answer is still no. What I want is to possess my readers while they are reading my book—if I can, to possess them in ways that other writers don’t. Then let them return, just as they were, to a world where everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt, and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise, to have set loose in them the consciousness that’s otherwise conditioned and hemmed in by all that isn’t fiction. This is something that every child, smitten by books, understands immediately, though it’s not at all a childish idea about the importance of reading.
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Philip Roth, The Paris Review (via lexi-gold)
This interview was published in 1984 - feels about right to point to it on this week of thinking about children and how they consume books.
(via nathanenglander)
Could this be the answer physical-book readers want?
(Source: idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com)
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Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.
- Henry Miller (from Henry Miller on Writing)
(Source: scottiehughes)
Some unique bookplates from the John Starr Stewart Collection at the University of Illinois. See more.
“The Denver, Colorado nonprofit literacy group Burning Through Pages has gone viral with a gorgeous black and white poster encouraging parents to share books with their kids.”
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Can literary fiction survive the ebook age?
“Some claim that literary fiction has ‘lost the next generation’ of readers – but brilliant writing remains as important as ever.”
Literary fiction can be about anything, so long as it’s beautifully, intriguingly, surprisingly, gorgeously written, so long as it’s brilliantly constructed – from the word, to the sentence, the paragraph, the chapter, the novel and beyond.
First Book wants to give away 1 MILLION BOOKS TO KIDS IN NEED OVER THE NEXT 10 DAYS. Here’s the catch: We want the world to know about the issue of illiteracy and how they can help us fight it. In support of our effort, we will give away a book for every “re-blog”, “retweet”, and “share” we get of this message on the twitter, tumblr and facebook. Get to sharing.
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Throughout my 20s and early 30s — my two-books-per-week years — I did most of my reading at the International House of Pancakes.
- David Sedaris, the author of Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk, on his reading habits
(Source: The New York Times)
