Happy Birthday, Nebraska!
The 30 Best Places To Be If You Love Books
This has kind of been everywhere lately but it's so lovely that I thought it was worth posting. I think this is my favorite:
That's the famous Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris. UNP happens to be the publisher of founder Sylvia Beach's book of the same name. The New Yorker said that
Miss Beach's book is intimate, not scholarly, and thus full of interesting information. Her reminiscences are literally an index of everybody in the twenties, and she knew them all.
Illuminating Quotes, Visualised
(from Maggie Appleton's tumblr)
An author picked the subject of his next book out of a hat!
I think this sounds fascinating (both the fact that he picked the subject out of a hat and the book itself):
Pulitzer Prize winning Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten picked the subject for his next book out of a hat. Literally.
Blue Rider Pres will publish One Day in 2015, “a non-fiction account of the events of a single day, chosen at random, in American History.” The book will focus on the randomly selected date of December 28, 1986.
Mesmerizing
Sketchbook, February 2013 from Seb Lester on Vimeo.
UNP blog 