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Text Classics admire the first cherry blossom of the season
Text Classics find a trip to the A-bomb Dome in Hiroshima a sobering experience
Text Classics think this giant Buddha would look nice in the backyard next to the gardenias
Text Classics—more powerful than a bullet
Some more cool and unusual bookshelves. (via @GriffithREVIEW)
The Art of Google Books catalogues some of the beautiful and serendipitous things captured when old books are scanned and digitised.
Amazing embroidered book clutches.
Hauntingly pretty pop-up books by Andreas Johansson.
A German club offers a night of book reading and electro music.
The Hanged Man is suspended, upside-down, by his still-incomplete thesis. Lit scene tarot.
Vikki Wakefield with Federal Arts Minister Simon Crean
Vikki Wakefield’s debut novel, All I Ever Wanted, won the Young Adult category of the 2012 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature.
Everyone’s a critic.
A bookmark that follows you as you turn the page: for the forgetful reader.
10 of the most powerful women characters in literature. Twitter consensus is that the absence of Jo March from this list is nothing short of a travesty.
Here’s Sales and Marketing Director Kirsty Wilson posing with a beautiful new Text Classics bag, which just arrived in the office.
A skirt made out of books. There’s a total of 20,000 pages here, each folded by hand. Suffer for fashion, indeed.
The greatest books of all time, quantified and ranked, a process that subjective art really calls out for, right?
Amazing book art by Brian Dettmer.
Favourite books of famous authors.
Hemingway’s childhood home is for sale.
‘You can aspire to be a published author. Or a bestselling author. Or a professional freelance writer.
‘Australian Literature 101 is the university education in Australian literature you never had’, says the Wheeler Centre in promoting their new series of talks on classic Australian works.
Ramona Koval hosts Read more
