Working in secret, behind an unmarked door in a former bread bakery, they rushed to build a device that might capture the imagination of readers and maybe even save the book industry.
Julie Bosman - New York Times
The only technology you need to read a print book is the eyes you were born with, and print continues, for the moment, to be the leading format for books. If you start giving away downloads with print copies, you shake things up in a pretty big way.
Nicholas Carr - Rough Type
What if all that junk in your head came out? You don’t have to have “mental issues” to know that there are rules in conversation, things that can be said and things that should remain hidden or reserved. I always seem to have Edgar’s caveat at the end of King Lear in my head: “speak what you feel, not what you ought to say,” that next-to-impossible ideal that is supposed to keep tragedy at bay.
Jeffrey Donaldson via Poetry Daily
If art has value at all, it does so because it speaks to us about those aspects of our lives that have nothing to do with money — our joy in the visible world, our longing for order wrought from chaos, our desire for transcendence of the merely material. Things of that nature which music, dance, painting and language offer us to help articulate our common humanity.
We read alternately, having chosen work which used the same material — fire, building our house, pine-bark beetle damage in the Interior of B.C. — so that the audience got the sense of how two very different writers respond to similar themes.
There was an ineffably disarming and safe quality about her designs. Like their self-effacing creator — who still makes a point of surfing in the ocean several mornings a week — they radiated good vibes. To creative innovators in the ’80s who didn’t see themselves as computer geeks, Kare’s icons said: Stop stressing out about technology. Go ahead, dive in!
Steve Silberman/Neurotribes
So, as many of us know, this time of year is sometimes referred to as book award season due to the number of major book prizes that are given out. For the bookish amongst us, it can be something that is difficult to stay on top of, despite a desire to do so.
via The Halifax Reader
Bookends is a vibrant and dynamic conversation about contemporary books and the world of literary genre. Justine Lewkowicz interviews authors, bookstore owners, and in- the- know literary geeks to find out what’s happening in the literary world.
