I love when funny literary topics are trending on Twitter.
Some of my favourites:
@Carly_Chow : “Oryx and Cake”
@ClaraParkes : “The Lion, the Itch and the Wardrobe”
@CBCR2Shift : “Laughterhouse Five”
@bittermelon : “A Brie History of Time”
Join the conversation with the #bookswithonelettermissing hash tag
From the always awesome Cabinet, on the typed pages used in The Shining.
Never one to stint on artistic integrity and veracity, Kubrick used no shortcuts for the relatively simple scene. As artists Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin discovered during recent research in the Kubrick archives in London, instead of having the sentence typed on only the few sheets seen by viewers, the director asked his secretary Margaret Warrington to type it on each one of the 500-odd sheets in the stack. What’s more, he also had Warrington type up an equivalent number of manuscript pages in four languages—French, German, Italian, Spanish—for foreign releases of the film.
Which reminds us, our newest issue “Lines of Work” goes up online tomorrow, and our launch party is this Friday, March 18th at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe.
Which reminds us that we have the new issue now. All work and no Lapham’s etc. etc. etc.
On the 135th anniversary of Alexander Graham Bell’s first telephone call, here’s a look inside his delightfully weird sketchbooks. See more at The Atlantic.
It’s hump day and well…this day could be a lot better with cake.
Just reminiscing about this cake I made for a Geist holiday party two years ago.
Yum!
via i.imgur.com & Reddit
And that’s just how it is.
Reblog bait.
Kid, your job is to fill up the space around the advertisements.
(via motherjones)
From Wall of Shame by Marcello Di Cintio.
Geist 74.
how about: the guide to buying ebooks vs. printed books?
The only thing missing is “Does your library have, or can get, the book?”
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