Do you like free books? Do you like words?
We’ve just launched a Featured Author program on Bite-Size Edits, a wordish game that connects authors to fans and readers through the craft of writing.
Players get points for editing and commenting on random sentences from writers. High-scorers can win free books (!), and points earned in [...]
I am a Haruki Murakami fan in a big way. I am a Matt Forsythe fan in a big way.
I have often wondered if there was some way to combine my fanship for both Matt and Murakami into one concise, whimsy-filled image.
What if Matt left his glasses on a Murakami book? And then found them [...]
I think you have to watch an ad first:
Adults Go Wild Over Latest In Children’s Picture Book Series
This is a guest post from Chris Hughes.
At one time, I was probably the biggest typographical snob (and bore) you were ever likely to meet. I grew up in a house littered with books about typography, and beautiful books. My grandfather typeset private press books, using hot metal, well into his eighties. My father had [...]
by David Blazguez.
[via Stacked]
This is part of a much longer work that was in Book Oven Blog’s spam catcher. The line breaks etc are all maintained as in the original:
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Today is LibriVox’s 4th birthday. LibriVox is a kooky kind of project with the following objective:
To make all books in the public domain available, for free, in audio format on the internet.
Some statistics, as of today:
Total number of projects: 3113
Number of completed projects: 2556
Number of completed non-English projects: 364
Total number of languages: 29
Number of languages [...]
August 22 is Ray Bradbury’s 89th birthday. Here’s the opening of his short story, The Long Rain, about summer in Montreal:
The rain continued. It was a hard rain, a perpetual rain, a sweating and steaming rain; it was a mizzle, a downpour, a fountain, a whipping at the eyes, an undertow at the ankles; it [...]
From HTML Giant (the internet literature magazine blog of the future):
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! We are seeking high quality photographs of your literary tattoos for an upcoming book. Send us your ink! Submissions are open to all kinds of literary tattoo work: quotations from your favorite writer, opening lines of novels, lines of verse, literary portraits [...]
A Parable of the Past
An, er, friend of mine heard an interview on Fresh Air with Scottish director Armando Iannucci about his new film In the Loop (IMDB). He’d never heard of Iannucci, or the movie, or the TV show upon which the movie is based. The audio clips from the movie were so [...]
