Burroughs the Scientologist
What is is that we all want to know? The future, of course. And Williams Burroughs came up with a way of reading the future: the “cut-up” method. The cut-up… Read more »
Jacob Karpathian
Ride the White Horse
This week would have marked the hundredth birthday of Dylan Thomas had he not drank himself to death at the age of 39 at The White Horse Tavern. Yet, The… Read more »
Iranian children’s books coming to the UK
Amidst the mass exportation of Western children’s book, one small publisher, Tiny Owl, will bring Iranian children’s book to the UK. Founded by Delaram Ghanimifard and her husband, Tiny Owl… Read more »
Richard Flanagan burned unsuccesful drafts of his Man Booker Prize-winning novel
Richard Flanagan who won the Man Booker Prize took 12 years and five drafts to complete his award-winning The Narrow Road to the Deep North. The completion of the novel was not… Read more »
Derrida’s ghost
Today, October 9th, is the tenth anniversary of the death of the French philosopher, and inventor of deconstructionism, Jacques Derrida. Princeton University has decided to celebrate, or memorialize the theorist… Read more »
Ray Bradbury’s weird art collection sells for almost $500,000
Ray Bradbury’s strange and somewhat disturbing collection of sci-fi-inspired art sold at auction last week for $493,408. Bradbury, who passed in 2012, revolutionized science fiction writing and was best known… Read more »
Sergei Dovlatov gets a street in Queens
Earlier this month, after eighteen thousand people signed a petition, an insouciant street corner in Forest Hills, Queens was named after Third Wave Russian author, Sergei Dovlatov. Those who knew… Read more »
What’s inside a book cover? More than just pages
For those of you hapless enough to have missed The Morgan Library’s exhibition From Gatsby to Garb that ended this weekend, it was a doozy. The exhibition pulled a selection of… Read more »