Bob Dylan’s new album, Tempest, releases September 11, 2012, exactly eleven years after the release of Love and Theft. Since The Tempest was Shakespeare’s last play, some have wondered if this will be Dylan’s last album. I kind of doubt it, and here’s why. Dylan himself has pointed out that they are two different titles since his … [Read more…]
A hat tip to The Rumpus for passing along this little dandy of an article from The Awl: An A-to-Z listing of famous writers and their food fetishes, such as that of Victor Hugo: Y is for YOLKS When living in exile in the Channel Islands, Victor Hugo would rise at dawn and eat 2 … [Read more…]
Over at the Financial Times, Harry Eyres makes a few interesting observations on the state of poetry in relationship to sports. … Pindar is of particular relevance here because his surviving complete poems are all victory odes associated with games … Just as much as the athletes, he wanted to win and hated coming second. – from of … [Read more…]
Typography, or the application of fonts as we of the computer generation like to call them, have always played an integral role in how a book is perceived. For instance, a paper for a school assignment looks best in Times New Roman, because that’s the way it’s always been (for us young-ins). Some buck the trend … [Read more…]
Enthusiasts of supernatural literature must be ecstatic over the May 2012 release of the first U.S. edition of The Weird, (A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories), edited by Hugo Award winner, Ann VanderMeer and World Fantasy Award winner, Jeff VanderMeer. Published by Tom Doherty Associates, The Weird is an anthology of 110 stories by … [Read more…]