An amusing representation of how an idea turns into a book by Weldon Owen.
An amusing representation of how an idea turns into a book by Weldon Owen.
The trailer of The Great Gatsby with director Baz Luhrmann has just been released. Kanye West, Jay-Z and Jack White’s cover of U2’s ‘Love is Blindness’ in the music selection, strange, no? This is going to be either epic or catastrophic, nothing in-between.
Vladimir Nabokov on the covers of Lolita from around the world. Some are extraordinary, some remarkably pretty, and others beautifully done, he says.
More on how Lolita’s cover has evolved throughout the years here.
This adorable poster featuring the positive effects of reading books on developing the children’s imagination comes from Burning Through Pages, a non-profit
organization in Denver, CO, dedicated to the advocacy of reading and writing for the city’s youth.
Burning Through Pages follows the philosophy that the literature assigned by schools, while important, often contains old-fashioned ideals, which since being quite abstract put children off.
As classics are not always easily relatable to the young generation’s reading interests, the organisation takes a different approach to inspire love to reading in the youth - it buys, donates and takes the time to discuss books with the youngsters. Burning Through Pages launches children’s book clubs in the local communities, helps kids join them, interact with each other and gradually become active readers.
And for those already in the loop, it offers pretty good ad materials too.
In 1952, Alfred Eisenstaedt visited Earnest Hemingway in Cuba to photograph him for the September issue of LIVE magazine. Sadly, the legendary photographer found a thoroughly disagreeable, troubled and paranoid writer, whom he could barely take any good photos of.
More on Papa, the troubled here.
