Four Hours: Exploring the wonderfully weird and wildly walkable Venice

The aromas that swirl and dance with the salty air of the seaside neighborhood of Venice are guaranteed to take your olfactory system on a Mystic Journey — pun intended for those of you who know the neighborhood’s legendary new-age bookstore of the same name. From the spray-painted graffiti walls... Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Times'

[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]

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Four Hours: Exploring the wonderfully weird and wildly walkable Venice

The aromas that swirl and dance with the salty air of the seaside neighborhood of Venice are guaranteed to take your olfactory system on a Mystic Journey — pun intended for those of you who know the neighborhood’s legendary new-age bookstore of the same name. From the spray-painted graffiti walls... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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“Eclectic, Refreshingly Wild, and Important.” Exploring the Archives of America’s Best Literary Journals

The 28th issue of Kayak—a literary magazine edited and published by George Hitchcock out of Santa Cruz, California—appeared in 1972. The issue includes mostly poetry, as well as a few book reviews, a work of verse fiction, collages, illustrations lifted from old books and manuals, and an acerbic... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2022-10-19 08:57:28 UTC ]
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Discovering a World of Wonder: Spotlight on Explorer Academy

Nat Geo’s Explorer Academy series blends fact, fiction, and breathless adventure to deliver a unique reading experience. (Sponsored) Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-08-16 04:00:00 UTC ]
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See the weird, wonderful ads that made Americans love computers

‘Do You Compute?’ investigates how technology went from being written off as science fiction to something we engage with every day. In the years following the end of World War II, computers were just starting to make their way into the public consciousness. The intimidatingly technical devices... Continue reading at Fast Company

[ Fast Company | 2020-01-27 09:00:47 UTC ]
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7 Weird, Wonderful Words You Should Use More Often

Merriam-Webster lexicographer Kory Stamper picks seven favorites, including "sesquipedalian," "jawn," and more. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Weird and wonderful bookshops worldwide in pictures

From a Canadian bookshop opened by Alice Munro in the 1960s to one in the island of Santorini started by drunk Oxford students, some of the worlds most exotic booksellers feature in The Bookshop Book, published as part of a UK-wide Books are My Bag campaign to support the bookselling industry in... Continue reading at The Guardian

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Letting a Wild Ride Be a Wild Ride: A Conversation with Amy Spangler, by Ipek Sahinler & Iclal Vanwesenbeeck

Letting a Wild Ride Be a Wild Ride: A Conversation with Amy Spangler, by Ipek Sahinler & Iclal Vanwesenbeeck Interviews [email protected] Wed, 07/05/2023 - 14:43 Amy Spangler is the co-translator (with Nermin Menemencioğlu) of Leylâ Erbil’s A... Continue reading at World Literature Today

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Comic-Con: Gal Gadot says her Wonder Woman is 'the Wonder Woman of today'

"The Women Who Kick Ass" panel at San Diego Comic-Con was stocked aplenty with great women who are also great at butt kickin'. They came to discuss women in media, they came to talk about the future roles for females in the genre medium, and they came to tell stories about Gwendoline Christie... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

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'Say Nothing' explores 'human wreckage' wrought by young radicals during the Troubles

FX's adaptation of Patrick Radden Keefe's best-selling book focuses on the Price sisters and raises questions about how a bitterly divided country can move on from the past. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2024-11-14 11:00:06 UTC ]
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Find your next great read with a few simple—and delightfully weird—questions.

Good news for readers, literary magazine supporters, quiz-lovers, and weirdos: n+1‘s Bookmatch is back! If you make a donation of any amount to n+1 in the month of November, you can take a short, highly entertaining multiple choice quiz (sample question: If no teeth, you eat:), and you’ll get a... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2024-11-08 17:10:59 UTC ]
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Her Corpse Is a Wild Animal

No Man’s Mare by Djuna Barnes Pauvla Agrippa had died that afternoon at three; now she lay with quiet hands crossed a little below her fine breast with its transparent skin showing the veins as filmy as old lace, purple veins that were now only a system of charts indicating the pathways where... Continue reading at Electric Literature

[ Electric Literature | 2024-11-04 12:10:00 UTC ]
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A New Book Explores the History of Racialization in Psychiatry

Scholar Judith Weisenfeld explains how U.S. psychiatrists pathologized Black religious belief after the abolition of slavery in ‘New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity During the Great Migration.’ Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-01 05:00:00 UTC ]
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A New Book Explores the Role of Gender in the Church

In 'Complementarity: Dignity, Difference, and Interdependence,' Christian theologian Gregg Allison argues for equal dignity and mutual respect between men and women. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-01 05:00:00 UTC ]
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A New Book Explores the History of Racialization in Psychiatry

Scholar Judith Weisenfeld explains how U.S. psychiatrists pathologized Black religious belief after the abolition of slavery in ‘New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity During the Great Migration.’ Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-01 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Have you purchased a weirdly low-quality paperback book lately? This may be why.

I work as the bookstore manager for a bookstore in the Hudson Valley and one of the things that means is that I handle not only the ordering of most of our books, but the unboxing of them as well. I get to put hands (or at least eyes) on basically every book that comes […] Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2024-10-24 14:25:11 UTC ]
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A Summary and Analysis of Ray Bradbury’s ‘Zero Hour’

By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Zero Hour’ is a 1949 short story by the American author Ray Bradbury (1920-2012), included in his 1953 collection The Illustrated Man. In the story, which is set in a future America, a young girl is befriended by an alien who needs her help to... Continue reading at Interesting Literature

[ Interesting Literature | 2024-10-23 14:00:07 UTC ]
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Exploring Literary Dublin

The Irish city, once home to the likes of James Joyce and Oscar Wilde, is known for its bookstores, libraries and pubs, where writers found inspiration over pints of Guinness. Continue reading at The New York Times

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Exploring America's Audacious First Amendment

In his new book 'Exercise: Religion, The First Amendment, and the Making of America' (Oct 8, Oxford University Press). Bentley University history professor Chris Beneke explores the role the First Amendment has played in the shaping of American culture. Beneke spoke with PW about what worried... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Movie Alert: 'The Wild Robot'

We spoke with Peter Brown about the experience of seeing 'The Wild Robot,' the first novel in his middle grade trilogy, adapted by DreamWorks. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-09-17 04:00:00 UTC ]
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A ghost story about new motherhood? A TV writer's debut novel explores the female psyche

Jacquie Walters' debut, 'Dearest,' is a horror novel about new motherhood, including the demands of a breastfeeding infant, as well as how postpartum hormones affect a woman's psyche. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

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