The End of Half-Day Fridays [Some September Translations]
And just like that, school’s back in session. Having students back on campus brings up so many complicated feelings. Annoyance being the first and more obvious. It’s super irritating that from one day to the next it becomes infinitely more difficult to find a parking place for you bike, that you have to wait in ...
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On Repackaging Italo Calvino's Oeuvre
Over at the New Yorker, there’s a really interesting interview with cover designer Peter Mendelsund, whose new book, What We See When We Read, sounds amazing: A gorgeously unique, fully illustrated exploration into the phenomenology of reading—how we visualize images from reading works of literature, from one of ...
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Bienvenido a La Ciudad Letrada
For those of you who read Spanish, La Ciudad Letrada (The Lettered City) is a fresh take on literary blogging. This site combines fiction, essay, and miscellaneous bits of literature-focused writing into what feels like a cyber-downtown for lit addicts. A few minutes of clicking brought me to Matías Esteban Ilivitsky’s ...
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