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Books as Wall Art: A Practical Guide
This year is the tenth anniversary of When Words Collide, an annual readers and writers conference based in Calgary, Alberta. Today I had the privilege of delivering an encore presentation of my session on Books as Object, Sculpture, and Performance.
This post is not about that presentation.
But it was sparked by it, and by this photo from my slide deck…
Shuttle: The World’s First Spaceship
I’ve had people critique my love of print books as “just nostalgia.” Setting aside for the moment all the archival, psychological, and other reasons why print still holds a prime place in literary culture, what exactly is wrong with nostalgia as a reason for keeping books around.
To wit, my copy of Shuttle: The World’s First Spaceship by Robert M. Powers, published in May 1980 by Warner Books, eleven months before the maiden flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia, on Mission STS-1, on April 12, 1981.
On hand rails and old books…
You can’t really tell from looking at this photo, but years of people sliding their hands along this wood railing have polished the outside edge so smooth that it feels like polished marble. Everything else around me was rough and “natural,” even the exposed grain and scratchy texture of the rest of the railing. Then out of the blue, this uncanny unexpected smooth…
Audiopuzzling
Audiobooks have been surging in popularity and sales have been increasing for the past eight years. I started listening to them four years ago and ADORE them! Audiobooks have saved my recreational reading and allow me to “read” voraciously before and after putting in full work days. I listen to audiobooks when I take care of household chores and when I am driving. And I have been a casual audiopuzzler for the past two years.
Earl Grey, hot…
What kind of gift do you give a word nerd? How about a metaphor? Or is that an idiom?
