papermag: Chef Daniel Burns gives us the details on his new Greenpoint beer bar Torst .
nprfreshair: We are now a week older than we were. Have a good weekend, friends. devidsketchbook: »bye« by anatol knotek - visual-poetry animated version, from my »anachronism« book (unique, handmade chapbook, 16 poems, DIN A6, with sewn bindings;) [if you like to buy the book, please contact me on tumblr or via email: anatol(at)anatol(dot)cc]
nprfreshair: For years I’ve been somewhat secretly binging on arguments and essays surrounding literature, books, and the future of the printed word in the digital age. I’ve read howls of distress and songs of nostalgia and bright cheers of encouragement. It’s a virtual cacophony out there. But I’ve always sort of assumed that that cacophony was limited to writers and editors and journalists and those working or naturally interested in fields related to those occupations. Richard Nash’s piece — “What Is the Business of Literature” — on the Virginia Quarterly Review, however, has convinced me how wrongheaded that assumption was. He argues that a conversation about the future of the business of literature is a conversation about the past, present and future of life, full stop. For your weekend reading: Walk into the reading room of the New York Public Library and what do you see? Laptops. Books, like the tables and chairs, have receded into the backdrop of human life. This has nothing to do with the assertion that the book is counter-technology, but that the book is a technology so pervasive, so frequently iterated and innovated upon, so worn and polished by centuries of human contact, that it reaches the status of Nature. Image of Shakespeare and Co.
laughingsquid: Seven Amazing Wooden Marble Machines by Paul Grundbacher
nprfreshair: Okay. We’ll bite. A little. Bring it, Bullseye. moth-stories: It’s on, The World.
paperimages: Cara Thayer and Louie Van Patten
laughingsquid: The Pencilburster, Tiny ‘Alien’ Chestburster Carved Out of Pencil Lead I bet this is what Faulkner’s nightmares looked like.
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