I love Flavorwire, where Emily Temple, their brilliant but hard-to-find literary editor, is on the lookout for different ways of looking at books. Last month she published a list of 15 scathing reviews given to literary classics when they first came out; The Great Gatsby, Wuthering Heights, Catch 22 – all reviled. Here are some…
There’s a website called Brain Pickings, a kind of repository for quirky bits of information about… well…I’ll have to let Maria Popova, whose brain child it is, describe it: culling and curating cross-disciplinary curiosity-quenchers, and separating the signal from the noise to bring you things you didn’t know you were interested in until you are….
Flavorwire is a site I’ve quoted before (http://gabicoatsworth.com/2011/12/02/feeling-rejected/), and today Emily Temple has come up with some gorgeous photos of the world’s most lovely bookstores – not the largest, just the most beautiful. Here’s what she had to say: With Amazon slowly taking over the publishing world and bookstores closing left and right, things can…
