15 Vintage Photos of Librarians. Here are some old photos of librarians showing both the diversity of their duties and the diversity of the workers themselves.
All images courtesy of the Library of Congress, unless otherwise mentioned. Helping Others Here are a few images of librarians being their wonderfully helpful selves. Story time duty is nothing new for librarians, as you can see in this image, taken by Jessie Tarbox Beals in 1910. A librarian is sharing a Native American legend about the Northern Lights with an audience of youngsters from a nearby Jewish school. Librarians are vital in helping people locate and check out books. 10 Gorgeous Buildings Made Out of Books. The 10 Grumpiest Living Writers. This week saw the release of Farther Away , Jonathan Franzen’s newest collection of essays and speeches, covering the last five years of his non-fiction output.
Well, in those last five years, he has become increasingly grumpy, griping about things like Twitter and ebooks, and building a reputation as an unrepentantly prickly author with a constant bone to pick. To celebrate the release of another book filled with Franzen’s complaints, we’ve put together a list of the ten grumpiest, crankiest and most cantankerous authors still living today. Click through to read about the exploits of our favorite literary curmudgeons, and let us know — as un-crankily as you can, please — if we’ve missed anyone in the comments. 10 Crazy and Unusual Book Designs. Little Free Library - Home.
The Greatest Books of All Time, As Voted by 125 Famous Authors. “Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work,” Jennifer Egan once said.
The 35 Most Amazing Libraries In The World. With education as our focus here at The Best Colleges, we obviously love libraries.
College libraries, public libraries, private libraries, it doesn’t matter, we think they are all awesome. 20 Beautiful Private and Personal Libraries. Analog Books to Die For: 5 Wonderfully Tactile Die-Cut Books. By Maria Popova What cutting-edge digital culture has to do with an unmakeable book, lasers, and Sherlock Holmes.
For all their wonder and promise, one crucial component of the joy of reading still eludes the publishing platforms of the future: holding a beautifully bound, meticulously designed, thoughtfully crafted tome in your two hands. Hardly does that tactile delight get more intense than with a magnificent die-cut book. (Die-cutting is a process using a steel die to cut away sections of a page.) 5 Cool Sites To Help You Choose Which Book To Read Next ~ EBook Reader Buzz. It happens to everyone who loves reading.
You finish an ebook/book (or have read all the books by a particular author) and have no clue what to read next. Well, those days are over. Thanks to the Internet, sites are popping up that will keep you from ever wondering what to read next. Dirty Literary Love Letters Written by Famous Authors. Canada Writes - How to date a writer: Heather O'Neill. What does it mean to be literate? Are you literate?
I don’t mean to be presumptuous, but maybe the question is better framed like this: “How illiterate are you?” Technically, to be literate means you can simply read and write (that is, code and decode) in the representation system of your social group. But even that simple definition assumes that there is a shared coding scheme. If you’re a kid in the US in the early 21st century, that’s probably English; but it could also just as well be Spanish or Chinese. But it also has the sense of having knowledge or being competent in a specific area. The 20 Most Beautiful Bookstores in the World. [Editor’s note: In celebration of the holidays, we’re counting down the top 12 Flavorwire features of 2012.
This post, at #1, was originally published January 31.] Your Favorite Authors’ Favorite Books of All Time. 15 Famous Authors’ Beautiful Estates. “Decidedly, I’m a better landscape gardener than a novelist,” Edith Wharton once declared.
Writers and Their Books: Inside the Personal Libraries of Famous Authors. By Maria Popova Lessons in reading from an 18th-century lord, or why the allure of an unread book is like the dawn of romance.
In the Land of the Non-Reader. A few months ago, I stopped reading books. At night I crawl into bed and thumb my iPhone to life. I watch Star Trek: Voyager on the Netflix app. TITLEWAVE Login. Novel First Sentences. SearchReSearch. 7 Nonfiction Children's Books Blending Whimsy and Education. By Maria Popova From typography to tsunamis by way of quantum physics, or what Langston Hughes has to do with LEGO. Artful and fanciful children’s books make frequent cameos around here.
Part of what makes them so great is their ability to whisk the young reader away into an alternate reality full of whimsy and possibility. But the present reality is often full of so much fascination we need not escape it to have our curiosity and imagination tickled. We’ve previously seen how comic books can be a medium for nonfiction, and today we turn to 7 wonderful kind-of-children’s books that bring imaginative storytelling to real, and in many cases serious, issues for young minds to ponder. Images via Imprint Prolific poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist Langston Hughes is considered one of the fathers of jazz poetry, a literary art form that emerged in the 1920s and eventually became the foundation for modern hip-hop.
HT @Lissa Rhys; images courtesy of Mark Batty Publisher.