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How To Talk About Books You Haven’t Read

How To Talk About Books You Haven’t Read

“Non-reading is not just the absence of reading. It is a genuine activity, one that consists of adopting a stance in relation to the immense tide of books that protects you from drowning. On that basis, it deserves to be defended and even taught.”

Sylvia Plath’s Drawings

Sylvia Plath’s Drawings

“The pleasure of odds and ends,” in pen, ink, and literary history.

An Invisible Flower: Yoko Ono’s Time Machine of Love

An Invisible Flower: Yoko Ono’s Time Machine of Love

“I wrote this story almost a decade before I met my Smelty John.”

An Unquiet History of Libraries and Navigating Knowledge, from Alexandria to the Internet

An Unquiet History of Libraries and Navigating Knowledge, from Alexandria to the Internet

“…texts, fabrics to be shredded and woven together in new combinations and patterns…”

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