World’s Most Stunning Libraries

from Fodor’s Travel BIBLIOTHEQUE NATIONALE DE FRANCE, SITE RICHELIEU Where: Paris Originally built in the 18th century, French architect Henri Labrouste renovated the Bibliothèque Nationale’s Richelieu site from 1854 to 1875, after he completed the Bibliothèque...

Killing Monster Frost

from The New York Times The Road Back: Frost’s Letters Could Soften a Battered Image By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER Few figures in American literature have suffered as strangely divided an afterlife as Robert Frost. Even before his death in 1963, he was canonized as a rural...

The Author Chaplin

from AFP via Yahoo! News Charlie Chaplin’s only novel to be released Rome (AFP) – A virtually unknown novel by Charlie Chaplin — the only book the silent film comic ever wrote — is being made public for the first time. “Footlights”,...

Let’s Read Physical

from The Telegraph ‘Wearable’ book allows reader to feel emotions of characters Students have created a “wearable” book that enables you to feel the characters’ feelings as you read the story By Lucy Kinder Researchers at Massachusetts...

He didn’t show an ounce of self-doubt

from Psychology Today You Remember James Frey? Is he an example of a writer who completely outgrew his addiction? by Stanton Peele in Addiction in Society Recovery manual, or what? It’s hard to summarize the James Frey story. He wrote a wildly best-selling...