Ever spent the whole day reading The Hunger Games and then found yourself paranoid that a tribute was following you? Don’t worry; you aren’t crazy. Turns out that reading a really gripping novel can cause our brains to believe we are in the body of the protagonist, and this effect can last for days after reading according to a scientific study.
You are Katniss
Raising L.A.’s Literary Profile
Wednesday night at the Hammer Museum, the editors of the new Los Angeles Review of Books explained how their new web-only book review will raise L.A.'s literary profile.
Tastes Like Nostalgia
"Titles hitting shelves in the coming months are both updating heirloom recipes for a modern age, and modern kitchens, and bringing untouched dishes back into the spotlight." Publishers Weekly highlights the resurgence of retro cookbooks as well as upcoming titles that put contemporary spins on vintage recipes. From our archives: Hannah Gersen's list of literature masquerading as cookbook.
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Between Page and Screen
Between Page and Screen is a collaboration between book artist and poet Amaranth Borsuk and programmer Brad Bouse that experiments with the border between regular old reading and e-reading. The text is rendered in a code that requires the aid of a web cam to unlock its sentences. The work's creators have been interviewed at imprint.
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“Something like this has never been created before”
Steve Lee, the product lead heading Google’s Project Glass digital eyewear, explains the development process and his vision for the future. Suffice it to say that it’s a brave new world out there.
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The Real 24-Hour Bookstore
At one point, the only 24-hour bookstore was in Robin Sloan's Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, but Beijing has the first real 24-hour bookstore. The Sanlian Bookstore will be open around the clock for book lovers and insomniacs alike.
Necessary Nabokov
Christopher Michel discusses The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov – a book that challenges the long-held consensus that Nabokov was merely an aesthete.
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So that’s why I had a whale of a time reading ‘MOBY DICK’ and gained a hundred tons…
I’m reading Donna Tartt’s ‘The Secret History.’ Should I take precautions?