May 2012
27 posts
As I’ve often said, you can shop online and find whatever you’re looking for,...
– Economist Paul Krugman Is a Hard-Core Science Fiction Fan | Underwire | Wired.com via Shelf Awareness (via housingworksbookstore)
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Edwidge Danticat →
“I’ve been able to read people who have never left their homes, and I’ve been able to read people who have wandered in different parts of the world. I think there are advantages to both. I think being close to the ground, observing a situation closely in the everyday allows you a certain perspective, but also being in between, you know, it’s what Julia Alvarez calls “writing on the hyphen.” And...
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On Comics Reprints →
Around that same time my father came home with a present for me. It was a ream of blank newsprint paper. He was a transit worker, and he explained that someone had left it behind on the subway. For me it became a treasured gift, as the paper looked exactly like the paper of the comic books I so fervently read.
Source: Remembrance of Comics Past - Imprint
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In tribute to the late Maurice Sendak, Stephen Colbert revisits his Colberty Tales and releases his Sendak-approved children’s book “I Am a Pole (And So Can You!).”
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“The State Is Not God!” →
Class inequality was certainly a theme throughout The Twilight Zone. In “The Obsolete Man”, Romney Wordsworth is a librarian in a future totalitarian state who is ruled to be obsolete because books and libraries are no more and he believes in God, given that “the state has proven that there is no God” (Serling & Silverstein, 1961). The state has authority with absolute power and lacks a...
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All fine as far as it goes, but it doesn’t go far enough.
– Author Stephen King writes for The Daily Beast