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thedailywhat:

Invisible Book Shelf of the Day: The “Self Shelf” from DutchByDesign.
Standard shelf masquerading as a Magritte-referencing book entitled Ceci N’est Pas Un Livre. Comes in three colorways (yellow, blue, red).
[holycool.]

thedailywhat:

Invisible Book Shelf of the Day: The “Self Shelf” from DutchByDesign.

Standard shelf masquerading as a Magritte-referencing book entitled Ceci N’est Pas Un Livre. Comes in three colorways (yellow, blue, red).

[holycool.]


Dostoevsky suicide fears for station

Via abbyjean:

A new metro station named after the famously gloomy Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky has opened in Moscow despite fears it could attract suicides. The station, called Dostoyevskaya, is decorated with brooding grey and black mosaics that depict violent scenes from the 19th-century writer’s best-known novels. One mural re-enacts the moment when the main character in Crime and Punishment murders an elderly pawnbroker and her sister with an axe.

Another shows a suicide-obsessed character in The Demons holding a pistol to his temple. If that was not enough to darken the mood, shadowlike characters are shown flitting across the cavernous new station’s walls and a giant mosaic of a depressed-looking Dostoevsky stares out at passengers.


Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.

Ezra Pound (who, by the way, had such a wonderful face)

Via wordpainting, via libraryland


This is a picture of Ernest Hemingway.
All things amazing

This is a picture of Ernest Hemingway.

All things amazing


Maddie Chambers’s handmade Bag End dollhouse. Lots of pictures here. It’s amazing.

Maddie Chambers’s handmade Bag End dollhouse. Lots of pictures here. It’s amazing.


After keeping us waiting for a century, Mark Twain will finally reveal all - The Independent

Via benjaminhilts:

Twain left instructions not to publish his autobiography until 100 years after his death, which is… now

via @Carin Berger


That’s the only thing I truly envy Jim [Marshall] for. Deep envy. I think ‘The Stupids Die’ is the best title ever.

The Sweet Smell of Literature

The New York Public Library’s Thomas Lannon (Manuscripts and Archives Division) talks about that great old book smell: “It has a shoe box. There’s a shoe box. It has a shoe box-ness.”


Via libraryland, via mudwerks, via Artists in Action #535:

Vladimir Nabokov contemplates his next move

Via libraryland, via mudwerks, via Artists in Action #535:

Vladimir Nabokov contemplates his next move


Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
Leo Tolstoy upon being urged to rejoin the Russian Orthodox Church

“The game of billiards has destroyed my        naturally sweet disposition.” - Mark Twain, speech, April 24, 1906
Photo via vintagephoto

“The game of billiards has destroyed my naturally sweet disposition.”
- Mark Twain, speech, April 24, 1906

Photo via vintagephoto


Photo cutout of the Lygon family, on whom Evelyn Waugh partially based Brideshead Revisited’s Marchmain/Flyte family.
Via Vanity Fair

Photo cutout of the Lygon family, on whom Evelyn Waugh partially based Brideshead Revisited’s Marchmain/Flyte family.

Via Vanity Fair


Rereading, not reading, is what counts.

Jorge Luis Borges

Via libraryland


Via proustianmemory:

William Faulkner (1897-1962): Alcohol
LIFE: Famous Literary Drunks & Addicts

A great photoset! Start here.

Via proustianmemory:

William Faulkner (1897-1962): Alcohol

LIFE: Famous Literary Drunks & Addicts

A great photoset! Start here.