Dreaming of a home away from home during the lockdown? If you’re the seafaring type, Shel Silverstein‘’s rustic houseboat is currently on the market—and the perfect spot to write your celebrated collection of children’s poetry. According to Apartment Therapy, “the home is a perfect combination of new and old. The main room that greets you upon entering the houseboat uses reclaimed architectural features such as antique windows and shiplap-like panelling to give the feeling as though you’ve entered the belly of a pirate ship.”
Sail Away on Shel Silverstein’s Houseboat
Love Letter to Technology
The last book that Michelle Vider loved was our own Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven, which was a finalist for the 2014 National Book Award. Claire Cameron’s interview with Mandel from The Millions is a nice complement.
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Perpetua
When, in 1921, a young French writer working as a translator for James Joyce asked the writer to reveal his schema for Ulysses, Joyce balked, saying that “If I gave it all up immediately, I’d lose my immortality.” What he meant, at least in part, is that he wanted his opus to be relevant in perpetuity. At Full-Stop, Dustin Illingworth reads Ulysses on Twitter and asks: can the book survive the transition from the page to social media? Pair with: Josh Cook on The House of Ulysses by Julian Rios.
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Plotto
Who, or what, is Plotto? Find out about the art of mechanized storytelling, or what a cardboard robot has to do with melodrama and Law & Order.
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Literary Lost
As Lost meanders towards its finale, the LA Times rounds up the plentiful literary influences that popped up during the show’s run.
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