Articles tagged “today elsewhere”
When Clay walked into Penumbra’s store in those opening pages and marveled at its shelves rising into the dimly lit stratosphere, I knew exactly how he felt and turned the page feeling that old exhilaration well up in me once more.
In 1971, the children’s librarian at the newly opened library of Troy, Michigan, wrote to dozens of actors, authors, artists, musicians, playwrights, librarians, and politicians of the day, asking them to write a letter to the children of Troy about the importance of libraries
Ben Schrank picks music to accompany his new novel, Love is a Canoe.
Most novels don’t rely so heavily on the phrases ‘the meeting has been rescheduled’ and ‘best wishes’, though.
We ask Science: why do we read the books we read?
The book and the movie art separate things and thou would enjoyeth both more if thou could acceptest that: commandments of a righteous readerly life.
With us today is Brandie Perez, 19, wrapped in a skull-print scarf and visiting from Florida to meet her ‘hero.’ I bring up his robust, often poetic Twitter feed, where he affectionately addresses his followers as chupacabras. They’re generous: ‘I get so much stuff: crystals.
A great piece on Patrick White, on the occasion of his 100th birthday.
What’s the difference between an em dash and an en dash? (I’m sure I’ll come up with the perfect punchline as soon as I hit ‘publish’ on this post.
How to care for old or valuable books.
On grammar pedantry, and how it diminishes the work that editors do.
Dirda’s haul had become unwieldy.
Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina shelved in the ‘Emerging Authors’ section at Target. You heard it here first: this young man will go far.
Indie bookseller Ben McNally on how to attend a book launch.
The Atlantic Wire picks the best typos, mistakes and corrections of 2012.
‘Not writing is your alligator’: an open letter to a very young writer from a not-much-older writer.
10 indisputable signs that you’re a writer.
‘Keep at it’, ‘take your time’, and other advice on how to get published.
