Are you in high school and looking for some books to feed your mind this summer? Teach.com has created this handy flowchart featuring 101 books in a variety of genres to help you out. Warning!!! - if you don't read this summer your reading skills will deteriorate - guaranteed! Via Teach.com and USC Rossier Online
The Real Housewives of Shakespeare
The folks at the Great River Shakespeare Festival in Winona, Minnesota have come up with a hugely entertaining look at the Bard's leading ladies."In this shocking behind the scenes reality show we" see the women face off to determine which of them is "Best in the Canon."Enjoy.h/t blog of the ABAA
Literary Journeys: A new poster series by Owen Smith for BART
The latest installment of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) poster series is a set of three original book-themed posters by Owen Smith.The series features three literary icons from the Bay Area; Dashiell Hammett, Jack London and Amy Tan. In each poster a commuter is reading one of the author's books while related imagery swirls around them.The image above features characters from Hammett's The Maltese Falcon while out the train window you see the sign for John’s Grill, the iconic Union Square restaurant that appears in the book. Next is Jack London's 1903 novella The Call of the Wild. A...
When in need: Dial-a-Poem
The Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language exhibit at MoMA "brings together historical and contemporary works of art that treat language not merely as a system of communication governed by grammatical rules and assigned meanings, but as a material that can be manipulated with creative freedom"One of the cooler components of the exhibit is Dial-a-Poem; four rotary phones on display that when picked up will treat you to an original recording of a poet reading one of their works. And what if you can't make it to New York in the next few months? You can still partake by calling the local...
Paper Passion: Now You Too Can Smell Like a New Book
The smell of a freshly printed book is the best perfume in the world. - Karl LagerfeldI think that to be able to wear the smell of a book is something very chic. Books are players in the intellectual world, but also in the world of luxury. - Gerhard SteidlIt should come as no surprise that Lagerfeld first mentioned the idea of a book scent to German publisher Gerhard Steidl.Karl Lagerfeld should know about such things. His library is world renowned and contains hundreds of thousands of books. That's right, hundreds of thousands of books!Wallpaper* Magazine then commissioned master perfumer...