Pictures made of words: Hang your favorite book on the wall with the complete text, arranged to depict a memorable scene from the book. (via @Harvard_Press)
Pictures Made of Words
Michael Lewis on Germany
In our Second Half of 2011 Book Preview, we picked Michael Lewis' Boomerang: Travels in the New Thirld World. To tide you over until it's released, check out his take on Germany's economy.
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Station Eleven Preview
A. A. Knopf posted the first chapter of our own Emily St. John Mandel's new novel, Station Eleven, on Scribd for all to see and enjoy.
“Against Explanation”
"I don’t know how to give more of myself than a poem. Every poem I write is more accurate than anything I can ever tweet about it: my interior life, and its struggle and desire to converse with the exterior world." Tarfia Faizullah writes for Poetry's blog about why she doesn't want to explain her poems, the power of breath, and the frustrating implications of the question, "did it happen to you?"
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Ben Marcus’ Other People Pod
Ben Marcus, author of The Flame Alphabet (reviewed by us last month), does an Other People Podcast with Brad Listi.
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Tales from Swankville
When Pleasanton mom Siah Fried and her co-author wrote Tales from Swankville, a book about hyper-competitive parenting in suburbia, they didn't expect their neighbors to take it so personally.
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The Bard of Florida
After passing through the House, a new bill establishing a four-year term limit for the state’s Poet Laureates is set to reach the Florida governor’s desk in the near future. The Sunshine State has been without a Poet Laureate since Edmund Skellings died in 2012.
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