When SF writer Isaac Asimov visited the New York World’s Fair of 1964, he pondered “What will life be like, say, in 2014 A.D., 50 years from now? What will…Continue readingWhat Asimov got right — and wrong
Adam Gopnik has some interesting thoughts on the subject. Here is his conclusion: Why should English majors exist? Well, there really are no whys to such things, anymore than there…Continue readingWhy Teach English?
Muphry’s Law is the editorial application of Murphy’s Law. It dictates that: (a) if you write anything criticizing editing or proofreading, there will be a fault of some kind in…Continue readingWriters: Beware Muphry’s Law
Chinese subway riders using Shanghai’s Metro Line 2 will soon have their own unofficial library. Pick up a book at one station, drop it off at any other. The project…Continue readingA subway-only library for commuters
100 percent off stores, of course. In Baltimore, Portland, San Francisco, and other cities scattered across the United States and Europe, free stores are a practical protest of consumer culture.…Continue readingWhat’s better than a thrift store?
“If the issues your story deals with are non-fantasy issues, why bring the fantasy in at all?” asks Pat Bowne in an article at The Royal Academy at Osyth Blog.…Continue readingIs Fantasy Necessary?
Where else could book people be married but in the bookstore where they work. Well, right behind the bookstore — on the green — with the reception, of course, in…Continue readingIt took a Village…Books
Perhaps in publishing… Well, perhaps in digital publishing anyhow. Emily Parkhurst, a staff writer for the Puget Sound Business Journal, believes Seattle is moving in on the Big Apple to…Continue readingSeattle, the next New York?
The art of seeing has to be learned, Alexandra Horowitz tells us in her book, ‘On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes.’ The book is a record of her walks…Continue readingThe Art of really seeing