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text 2015-07-09 17:12
Authors Doing Dumb Shit

There are a lot of stupid people out there. A LOT. And yet, because authors have voices and platforms that allow their stupidity to reach further than many an everyday moron, we have things like this: Male Author Poses as Pregnant Feminist Threatening Abortion to Promote Book. (from Flavorwire)

 

Who wakes up one morning and thinks this is OK??

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text 2015-06-11 22:43
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell Miniseries Makes Its US Debut Saturday, June 13 on BBC America

I'm both excited and nervous, as JS&MN is one of my favorite books of all time. I have faith in BBC adaptations, but I wonder how much film can do with such unusual source material (part of the fun of the book was the copious footnotes). The reviews so far, like this one, are good. The look of the Man with the Thistledown Hair gives me pause- it looks too "costumey," but I'm going to try my best to reserve judgement until I've actually watched it. Anyone else plan on tuning in?

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text 2014-08-14 20:24
Gateway Reading

The "read anything as long as you're reading" philosophy, explored:

 

Tim Parks says he doubts people move on from reading "trash" to reading "real literature" in his NYRB article Reading Upward .

 

Emily Temple over at Flavorwire respectfully disagrees in It's Okay to Read Harry Potter, mostly because the divide is spurious to begin with.

 

First off, I take offense with Parks assertion that it is some sort of positive ascendency that takes you from Hermione Granger to Clarissa Dalloway. Despite your feelings for magic vs. Modernism, Ms. Granger is just fine on her own, thank-you-very-much.  Besides, Modernism definitely isn't for everyone, even those who read "literary" works. Bad, bad, bad. And the comparison of junk food vs. a gourmet meal is also problematic, since not all people who enjoy M&Ms get hopelessly addicted, just like not every person who likes a fancy meal from time to time will dedicate their lives to some sort of gourmand gluttony. Some will, in both cases, but to say it is the same for everyone is condescending. The fact that people are still able to draw a line in the sand between genre and literary these days shows a profound lack of diversity in their own reading lives. Those very ill-defined categories cross over and into each other more than people like Parks seem to believe, and this whole low-middle-highbrow thing is just fodder for argument and not a legitimate way to discuss culture in any meaningful way. In other words, I'm on board with Temple's refutation.

 

 

What do you think?

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text 2013-10-22 18:46
Beautiful Library Chairs

 

Do you have furniture like this in your library? Some of these look like lots of fun and some just look down right uncomfortable. Check out more on this Flavorwire article Beautiful Library Chairs for Literary Abodes by Alison Nastasi (10/20/13)

 

Bookinist - movable reading chair

 Bookinist - moveable reading chair designed by Nils Holger Moormann

 

 

library chair

OpenBook - upholstered chair by TILT

 

 

Source: flavorwire.com/421091/beautiful-library-chairs-for-literary-abodes/view-all
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text 2013-10-14 02:55
Flavorwire's 50 Scariest Books of All Time

This is, of course, completely arbitrary. But I love lists, and I love Halloween, so it's all in good fun.

 

http://flavorwire.com/419194/the-50-scariest-books-of-all-time/

 

Source: flavorwire.com/419194/the-50-scariest-books-of-all-time
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