It's Sci-Fi time at the British Library. The long-awaited, and destined to be a classic, exhibit Out of this World: Science Fiction but not as you know it, opens on Friday."This new exhibition will invite visitors to enter the world of the future, alien worlds, parallel worlds and virtual worlds, and speculate on how our universe might change. These imaginings can provoke hopes and dreams, exhilaration or fear – and shed light on the time and place in which they were created. We hope to encourage visitors' questions such as: 'Is there such a thing as a perfect world?' 'When...
28 cent book bin – Big Fat Whale – Boston Phoenix
28 cent book bin - Big Fat Whale - Boston Phoenix
The Beauty of Folded Corners: "Dog Ear" by Erica Baum
For the book collector a dog-ear has a nasty bite, its presence as Kenneth Goldsmith points out in his introductory essay "even when smoothed out and returned to its upright position, scars the page forever."But for Erica Baum the dog-ear opens up new possibilities for engaging with the text. For the Dog Ear series Baum carefully dog-eared pages of mass market paperbacks and then photographed them. The diagonal line becomes not only the chosen method of saving one's place but also the jumping off point. The line begets new lines and ultimately new meaning. Published by Ugly Duckling Presse Dog...
We’re Off to Illustrate the Wizard; The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Zoe Andreas Blank Pages, an arm of the London based design agency Fridge Creative, would like you to help illustrate L. Frank Baum's classic 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz', How it Works:The entire text of the book has been uploaded with blank pages interspersed throughout. When you happen upon a blank white page it is need of an illustration. Draw it up and send it off, if the editors like it you're in.Blank Pages, whose mantra is to "Give old classics a new lease of life," plans on releasing other childhood favorites into the wild to be illustrated by the...
Saturday Night Live Celebrates "Bossypants" with a Look at Woman Writers of the Past
Tina Fey hosted Saturday Night Live this past weekend and to celebrate her bestselling book, Bossypants, the folks at SNL created this hysterical homage to woman writers of the past.