by | Mar 17, 2014 | Literary News
from VISUAL NEWS A Very Rare Book Opens 6 Different Ways, Reveals 6 Different Books POSTED BY BENJAMIN STARR Book binding has seen many variations, from the iconic Penguin paperbacks to highly unusual examples like this from late 16th century Germany. It’s a variation...
by | Mar 15, 2014 | Literary News
from paste magazine Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards is Writing a Book for Kids By Chelsea Conte It looks like Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards is back to writing, but not lyrics to songs. He’s penning a children’s book called Gus & Me: The Story of My Granddad...
by | Mar 14, 2014 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
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...
by | Feb 5, 2014 | Literary News
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...
by | Feb 4, 2014 | Literary News
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”,...
by | Jan 29, 2014 | Literary News, Weirdness
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...