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The Invincible Green Stick of Happiness. Kissa by Kissa (2nd ed.) – SPECIAL PROJECTS (craigmod.com) Update December 28, 2020: Thank you to everyone who made this such a spectacular year in Kissa by Kissa land.

Kissa by Kissa (2nd ed.) – SPECIAL PROJECTS (craigmod.com)

Shipping has stopped for 2020, and will start again on January 6th, 2021. All order placed between now and then will ship then. Thank you for your continued support! Update Oct 31, 2020: The pre-sale campaign is done! Thank you to everyone who helped make this a great success. Holden Caufield’s Book Report on Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea - Ant Farmer's Almanac. Found in Holden Caufield’s dorm room after he was expelled and went home to Manhattan.

Holden Caufield’s Book Report on Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea - Ant Farmer's Almanac

So, I guess you want to know about all this fisherman stuff. Ernest Hemingway’s newest book is about an old Cuban fisherman, Santiago, who hasn’t caught any fish for 84 days. Everybody’s saying he’s a loser and even his assistant has been told to ditch him. The Q&A: James Ellroy: Writing scandal. The school that changed Anni and Josef Albers forever.

Though the Bauhaus is widely regarded as the great source of European modernism, it was not the first art school that the great modernist Josef Albers attended.

The school that changed Anni and Josef Albers forever

As Nicholas Fox Weber, the long-standing executive director of the Albers Foundation, explains in his new book, Anni & Josef Albers, “Josef, who had gone to Munich in 1918 to study at the Royal Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts,, heard of the Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar shortly after it opened. "He was diligently drawing nude figures and Bavarian mountain scenes, simplifying his draftsmanship with a calligraphic style in which he applied ink of that same black that would have equal appeal for Anni, when he decided he wanted an even more radical change in his life and art. “He would later write, ‘I was thirty-two, . . . threw all my old things out the window, started once more from the bottom. Don’t sleep on the Hugo Awards. The World Science Fiction Convention convened yesterday in Chicago.

Don’t sleep on the Hugo Awards

Unlike San Diego’s Comic-Con, Worldcon hasn’t gone Hollywood just yet — you’re more likely to share an elevator with astronaut Story Musgrave than Seth MacFarlane. The big autograph sessions are with authors like John “Redshirts” Scalzi, and panels cover topics like “Anarchism in Fantasy and Science Fiction” and “Are You a Dickhead?” (a retrospective of author Philip K. 7 Essential Books on Music, Emotion, and the Brain. By Maria Popova What Freud has to do with auditory cheesecake, European opera and world peace.

7 Essential Books on Music, Emotion, and the Brain

Last year, Horizon’s fascinating documentary on how music works was one of our most-liked pickings of 2010. But perhaps even more fascinating than the subject of how music works is the question of why it makes us feel the way it does. Today, we try to answer it with seven essential books that bridge music, emotion and cognition, peeling away at that tender intersection of where your brain ends and your soul begins. Japan's getting a manga adaptation of Sherlock. The Last Pictures: A Time-Capsule of Humanity in 100 Images Sent into Space for Eternity. By Maria Popova “Just as the topology of space is at odds with everyday human experience, the ‘time’ of space is utterly foreign.”

The Last Pictures: A Time-Capsule of Humanity in 100 Images Sent into Space for Eternity

Last week, we celebrated 35 years since the Voyager that gave us Pale Blue Dot launched into space, carrying the ultimate mixtape of humanity’s sounds, itself a record of how Carl Sagan and Annie Druyan fell in eternal love. Daedalus Books Online - New & Remainder Books, Overstock DVDs & CDs at a Discount Price. The Hidden History of Artificial Intelligence – Transhumanism and Alchemical Agendas. A potent underground idea is usually scheduled for retirement once it makes it onto the History Channel .

The Hidden History of Artificial Intelligence – Transhumanism and Alchemical Agendas

The Ancient Alien theory was kept alive in pulpish propagation by Erich Von Daniken and Zecharia Stichen for well on four decades (not including the seeds it sprouted from, which were planted much earlier.) However, now that it’s been relegated to awkward production, fleeting interviews, constant criticism and dull dramatization, the whole mythos is starting to get a bit dry. Liminal philosophers like Christopher Knowles and Philip Coppens , whose theories have often tread parallel the ancient runways, keep their investigations fresh by swimming in a more cosmopolitan realm of shadows and contemporary myth.

The Great Sex Letter. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Is a science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. First published in 1968, the book served as the primary basis for the 1982 film Blade Runner. The novel is set in a post-apocalyptic near future, where Earth and its populations have been damaged greatly by nuclear war during World War Terminus. Most types of animals are endangered or extinct due to extreme radiation poisoning from the war. Setting[edit] Overview[edit] The 10 Greatest Books Ever, According to 125 Top Authors (Download Them for Free) Earlier this month, we highlighted The 10 Greatest Films of All Time According to 846 Film Critics.

The 10 Greatest Books Ever, According to 125 Top Authors (Download Them for Free)

Featuring films by Hitchcock, Kubrick, Welles and Fellini, this master list came together in 2012 when Sight & Sound (the cinema journal of the British Film Institute) asked contemporary critics and directors to name their 12 favorite movies. 43 Books About War Every Man Should Read. Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Ryan Holiday.

43 Books About War Every Man Should Read

War is unquestionably mankind at his worst. Yet, paradoxically, it is in war that men — individual men — often show the very best of themselves. Read 10 Free Articles by Hunter S. Thompson That Span His Gonzo Journalist Career (1965-2005) Flannery O'Connor Reads "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" 100 Best Non-Fiction Books (in Translation) of the 20th Century … and Beyond. By ALEXANDER COCKBURN and JEFFREY ST. CLAIR As the clock clicked down on the arrival of the new millennium, Alex and I were bemused at the spate of “100 best of the century lists” pouring forth from the New York Times, the New Yorker, Salon, the Guardian and other liberal publications.

The lists were predictable and not many of the entries remained on our groaning shelves. So we decided to compile our own catalogue of the best books written in English and, later translated into English, during the 20th Century. We spent weeks whittling it down to roughly 100 titles for each. Over the decade, those pages were up on the site they attracted well-over two million unique visitors. Le Corbusier Le Grand. The Cluetrain Manifesto — Entire Text Index Page. Site Search. 1 - 20 of about 57 Search results for the keyword 'Kenneth Fearing' Poet Kenneth Fearing Kenneth Fearing, a well-known proletarian poet of the 1930s, a pulp-magazine writer with several pseudonyms, and a Chicago and New York publicity and editorial writer, turned to writing “psycho-thrillers” in the 1940s and 1950s.

His fourth novel... Philip Marlowe (Character) - Quotes. Chinese Wedding-Asian Wedding Ceremony-Wedding Vows-Marriage Vows-Wedding Readings-Wedding Certificates. Sea of Crises « • The Disappearing Sword • some Japanese stories end violently. A reading list of Roman classics. Roman literature often derived from Greek sources, but took Greek models and made them its own. It includes some of the best known classical authors such as Ovid and Virgil, as well as a Roman emperor who found time to write down his philosophical reflections. Saint Augustine’s Confessions by Saint Augustine Augustine was a gifted teacher who abandoned his secular career and eventually became bishop of Hippo.

His Confessions are a remarkable record of his wrestlings to accept his faith, his struggles to overcome sexual desire and renounce marriage and ambition. James Thurber. Shelf Candy. Kurt Vonnegut graphed the world’s most popular stories. This post comes via Know More, Wonkblog's social media site. Kurt Vonnegut claimed that his prettiest contribution to culture wasn’t a popular novel like “Cat’s Cradle” or “Slaughterhouse-Five,” but a largely forgotten master’s thesis he wrote while studying anthropology at the University of Chicago. Huxley's Letter to Orwell Regarding "1984" In case you aren’t aware, Aldous Huxley was George Orwell’s French teacher at Eton College.

The below letter contains Huxley’s brief review and initial thoughts on Orwell’s iconic masterpiece. George Orwell Explains in a Revealing 1944 Letter Why He'd Write 1984. Overweening Generalist: Fugitive Thoughts: Timothy Leary's Reading of Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. This Comic Will Make You Wonder What "You" Even Means. ‘The Machine’ by Existential Comics What Does This Comic Mean, Man? This comic explores the philosophical problem of personal identity. The question of “what makes me me?” Alien3. 80 Books Every Person Should Read. Boundary Conditions. This brilliant book sheds new light on Nazi Germany. The Pioneering Female Sci-Fi Writer Whose Identity Was Kept Secret for 50 Years.

Many women writers have chosen to hide or disguise their identities by adopting a pseudonym—consider J. K. Amphetamine Logic - VICE. 10 great or near-great comix you might think about reading. Book review of Jennifer T. Roberts's The Plague of War. Cunk on Shakespeare. Most Popular Young Adult Fiction Books. The 11 Best Sci-Fi Novels From the 21st Century You Likely Missed. Crooks, Liars, and Spies: 10 Great Books of Washington Intrigue. A Golden Age for Dystopian Fiction. Bad Bunny: True children’s stories of violent, drug-fueled family life presented as a kids’ book. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s journal entry for September 5th, 1852 – Biblioklept. The Dodgy Origins of Dorothy Parker’s Famous Martini Quote. Etty Hillesum: God, Sex, and Defiance in a Time of War. Read William S. Burroughs's Hate Letter to Truman Capote. Edgar Allan Poe’s Hatchet Jobs.

Three millennia of writings – a brief history of Chinese literature. Atlasobscura. A Portrait of the Artist as an Addict. Graham Greene. David Maurer, the Dean of Criminal Language. Mothers and Daughters and Psychological Thrillers. 5 Things You Didn't Know About Edgar Allan Poe. Judge Holden holds forth on war (Blood Meridian) The Crime Novels of Buenos Aires. Roddy McDowall reads two horror stories by H. P. Lovecraft. Lee Child Grapples With Mortality, Sales, Rivals, and Successors. Everything Bartleby says in Herman Melville’s “Bartleby” Gabriel Bergmoser: 'There is a brand of country Australian masculinity that is particularly threatening' Today I Learned Something About My Boyfriend That No Girl Should Ever Have to Discover.