‘Tis the season for book gifting and sales! Danielle Dutton‘s Dorothy, a publishing project, is offering a special holiday deal on its two seasons of terrific books.
‘Tis the season
The Maya School Needs Help
Last year, Netherland author Joseph O'Neill helped open the Maya School, a school for Syrian refugee children in Turkey. Now he's asking for donations of additional funds to keep the school operational. "We have set up a transparent and cost-effective partnership with Turkish counterparts of great integrity and knowhow," O'Neill writes. "Of the $16,000 we raised last year, $3000 still remains. That tells you how far your dollars will go."
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Poetry Can Be Anything
“He taught me that poetry can be anything and with that comes great freedom.” Reminiscences by a former student of the poet John Ashbery upon his death. And for a contemporary take on the question of just what, exactly, poetry is and/or might be, see our recent conversation between Jill Bialosky and Matthew Zapruder.
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“Welcome to my book collection”
Dear Internet, can you please get to work on a single-serving Tumblr dedicated to weird literary videos? And, when created, can it just eternally re-post this video of a shirtless Glenn Danzig posing by his bookcase (and apparently a roaring fire)? (h/t Adam Boretz)
Hot Air
The unwritten rules of steampunk declare that in every steampunk story, the Hindenburg never caught fire, the world never lost its desire for blimp travel and the skies are dotted with hot air balloons and zeppelins. As it happens, this element of the genre stems from old utopian narratives, many of which depicted a future of widespread balloon travel. At Salon, Kyle Minor reviews the audiobook of a new history of the hot air balloon, written by Richard Holmes, that shows how the rise of air travel changed the world's imaginative territory.
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No, “ ‘Tis” not the season. ’Tis the season.