DebtDavid Graeber
He Died with his Eyes OpenDerek Raymond
A group of fraternity brothers from Lousiana Tech University burning their textbooks in celebration of the end of the school year are believed by local authorities to have caused a fire that burned down their fraternity house. According to a report from KSLA News by…
The description on the iTunes page for this app tells you what you need to know: “Do you hate turning your neck sideways to read book titles at libraries and bookstores? Or scrunching down as well to view lower shelves? With SHELFLOOK, those days…
In the wake of the now infamous Mike Daisey incident on This American Life, other writers operating in the grey area between fact and fiction are finding their work under the magnifying glass. On the radio segment, Daisey recounted incidents drawn from his performance piece ”The…
“The history of bookmaking hasn’t been without its challenges, but never was its craft as painstaking as during the era of illuminated manuscripts,” says Maria Popova. Well, try laying out an ebook that has art in it. But Popova makes a good case in a…
There is a hotel in Spain that is designed around Italo Calvino’s celebrated Invisible Cities, which sounds remarkably appealing so long as one of the themed rooms is not in the likeness of Armilla, the unfinished city. A thematic hotel is one thing, but Nobel…
If you’re anything like me (a frightening proposition for you, I’m afraid), you probably have a great number of books in your home, and you’ve probably taken great care to arrange them for maximum impact on houseguests and romantic prospects. You know what I mean—the…
Welcome to MobyLives, your number one source of toilet paper-related news. In January we revealed to Herman Melville fans the world over what’s been missing from their lives: their favourite seafaring epic printed on bog roll. Now this newest of print media is showing its…
One of the greatest ongoing publications in publishing history is coming to an end: The publishers of the fabled Encyclopaedia Brittannica announced late yesterday that, after 244 years, they are ceasing publicationof their print editions. As Julie Bosman reports in a story for the New…
Book collecting seems like such a noble pursuit — it suggests a passion for knowledge and an appreciation of intellectual pursuits. But the March 5 episode of Hoarders demonstrates that an acceptable, even admirable hobby can take a turn for the worse when it becomes compulsive.…
Here’s an idea you’ll wish you’d had yourself: framing your favourite literary characters as criminals at large. New Tumblr The Composites runs descriptive passages from works of fiction through police composite imaging software. See a selection of our favourites below; who’d’ve thunk a software package could…