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10/13/08 // Link:
Literature Map Very cool “map” that clusters authors by some sort of algorithm. Pretty impressive results and I found quite a few authors I’d never heard of that sound like they’d be worth a look. I wish it had some links to …continue reading »
05/09/08 // Link:
YouTube - Speaking Picture Book An antique children’s story book with integrated animal sounds — presumably, the sounds accompany the story. The nine available noises are produced by small air bellows and paper cones. Pretty cool.continue reading »
12/23/07 // Link:
Bookworm Interview with David Foster Wallace (‘96) continue reading »
11/08/07 // Link:
Man Booker Prize Shortlist To Be Free Downloads Frankly I’m surprised they got the publishers to agree to do this, given that industry’s consistent lack of understand of digital media. Of course I’ve never really met a Man Booker novel I actually liked, but hey maybe the shortlist …continue reading »
11/08/07 // Link:
BibliOdyssey: Dagbok East India Trading Company BibliOdyssey has dug up another stellar set of illustrations. And there’s going to be BibliOdyssey book, so the nerdery can live on the coffee table, not just the computer screen. Anyway these great natural history illustrations are from the Swedish …continue reading »
10/15/07 // Link:
Doris Lessing Wins Nobel Prize in Literature Finally. From the New York Times: Ms. Lessing learned of the news from a group of reporters camped on her doorstep as she returned from a visit to the hospital with her son. “I was a bit surprised because I …continue reading »
09/30/07 // Link:
British Library Books Go Digital Good news from the British Library System, finally, some rare books are set to be available in digital form. From the BBC: More than 100,000 old books previously unavailable to the public will go online thanks to a mass digitization …continue reading »
09/23/07 // Link:
The Guardian Unlimited Talks To Dave Eggers Dave Eggers on generosity, charity and giving it away: Dave Eggers has made an empire out of generosity, and on the cheap as well. The earliest issues of McSweeney’s, his eccentric literary quarterly, look today as if they were printed …continue reading »
09/23/07 // Link:
Baroque Fables Another nice find from Bibliodyssey, this time some illustrations from a Baroque era book of fables: Johann Elias Ridinger (1698-1766) was a German painter, engraver, draughtsman and publisher. His training included depictions of animals, especially horses, as well as copies …continue reading »
09/23/07 // Link:
The Braindead Megaphone by George Saunders George Saunders has a new one out entitled The Braindead Megaphone. Doesn’t take much to imagine what that’s referring to. Jason Kottke put up this excerpt from the title essay: Last night on the local news I watched a young …continue reading »
09/23/07 // Link:
Museum Gottwaldianum Another Bibliodyssey post. That guy/girl has some amazing stuff, I need to figure out where they find it all. Anyway, this one has a bit of a natural history bent to it. “Christoph Gottwald(t) (1636-1700) was a German physician in …continue reading »
09/18/07 // Link:
Enfield Tennis Academy T-Shirts Oh the sheer nerdiness of it is just too much. I think I’m going to have to buy one of these Enfield Tennis Academy t-shirts: Ever want to win the Whataburger Classic? How about memorize the Oxford English Dictionary front …continue reading »
09/18/07 // Link:
No Thanks, Mr. Nabokov People always complain that there’s no good books being written anymore, but the truth is there’s no good books being published anymore. Ever since the publishing houses became multi-million dollar enterprises the level of risk taking dropped dramatically. Of course …continue reading »
09/18/07 // Link:
The Fantastic Tale of Opal Whiteley In 1918, at the age of 20, Oregonian Opal Whiteley published “The Fairyland Around Us” (contains full text & pictures), a nature book for children. Two years later, her diary (also contains full text and pictures) was published and became …continue reading »
09/18/07 // Link:
BibliOdyssey: Offcuts Proving once again that there’s nothing in today’s technology that can match the beauty of old printing methods and hand drawn illustrations, here’s five pages of scans from the original manuscript of “Banderia Prutenorum,” containing 56 images of flags captured …continue reading »