What if your bookmark could communicate with you. What if the writer of the book you put aside and haven't picked up in awhile can send you a tweet! Something like - I miss you, please pick me up again and hold me for awhile things are about to get really interesting #tweetforaread Welcome to “Tweet for a read” a campaign courtesy of Brazil’s Penguin Companhia das Letras Mood/TBWA Brazil that features a smart bookmark that helps readers keep in touch with the book’s storyline and serves as a reminder to get back to reading. [vimeo width="640" height="400"]http://vimeo.com/97274073[/vimeo] It's a brave new world. A Bookmark That Reminds You...
Here’s one “out of the closet” book that doesn’t seem to bother the Religious Right
Seems not a week goes by without someone, somewhere on this beautiful planet, objecting to a book due to its gay or non-traditional marriage content. Some have even gotten in a huff over a book about gay penguins. Well, here's one for the ages - a book focused on "open carrying and bringing gun ownership out of the closet and into the mainstream." My Parents: Open Carry invites us to: Come join 13-year-old Brenna Strong along with her mom, Bea, and her dad, Richard, as they spend a typical Saturday running errands and having fun together. What's not so typical is that Brenna's...
Latin America 1960-2013. Photos + Text
León Ferrari, from the series "Nevermore," 1995. Inscriptions written on photocopy The latest exhibit at Museo Amparo, Latin America 1960-2013. Photos + Text, features over 400 works from 71 artists from 11 countries who "address the complexity of this plural and heterogeneous territory." Through the prism of the relationship between the text and the photographic image, the exhibition shows the important role that this dialectic has played in Latin America. The connections between photography and literature have been explored by Horacio Fernandez who has underlined the importance of the use of photography for writers such as Pablo Neruda, Nicanor Parra...
A Look at the New Home of St. Mark’s Bookshop
After months and months of tumult St. Mark's Book Shop has landed in its home and it's a beauty. The space, designed by Clouds Architecture Office, will give St. Mark's a fighting chance as it navigates the new book landscape. From the project listing on Architizer: The perimeter of the space is wrapped with full height shelving, freeing up the interior as a flexible use space. Variously stacked display units provide table display space while doubling as informal loose seating for readings and events. A windowed office space is created by pinching and pulling the shelves in towards the center of the...
Introducing the Kindle Flare
[youtube]http://youtu.be/fDBzQkWeQ5g[/youtube] The Onion has the scoop on Amazon's latest release, the "Kindle Flare," a new tablet that will "loudly and repeatedly" announces the title of the book you're reading. A spokesperson for Amazon says "the Kindle Flare’s repetitive shouting will appeal to fans of print, who miss the ability to display a book’s cover to strangers." It also offers the revolutionary new technology "auto-explain" for the user who has a little shame about their reading choice. "Auto-explain" offers a rationalization for the book you're reading while also boasting about a high-brow title that you also like. God bless the Onion. h/t Poets and Writers.