Oct 15, 2018 Book of the Week — Ligeia: A Libretto

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Long years have passed, my memory is feeble through much suffering...

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Oct 10, 2018 Like gold to airy thinness beat

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Our two souls, therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.” ...

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Oct 09, 2018 Book of the Week — Ada’s Echo

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"The valleys filled with silicon and I was forced to learn a new language. Now I speak in bits and bytes. Strings of zeros and ones. I navigate a new topography." -- Kelly Wellman "Imagination...

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Oct 04, 2018 We recommend — Book as Archive & Enclosure

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Oct 01, 2018 Book of the Week — The Riding to Lithend

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We have laid low to earth a mighty chief: We have laboured harder than on greater deeds, And maybe won remembrance by the deeds Of Gunnar when no deed of ours should live; For this defence of his shall outlast kingdoms And gather him fame till there are no more...

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Jun 18, 2018 Book of the Week — Prove Before Laying

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“A harsh algorithmic line levels its gaze, makes one blunt admission after another while the time in which the statement is made expands and contracts with efficient respiration, an echo following itself across all the bitmapped spaces of the mind.”...

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Jun 14, 2018 A Recipe for Disaster

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“At two P.M we set sail, and the men voluntarily launched out to make a traverse of fifteen miles across Melville Sound, before a strong wind and heavy sea. The privation of food, under which our voyagers were then laboring, absorbed every other terror; otherwise...

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Jun 11, 2018 Book of the Week — Against Fiction

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From the artist’s statement: “The book embodied the conflicts I had with the traditions of fiction in which I had been steeped as a young writer and the terms of literary production I was being exposed to in the Bay Area literary scene, as well...

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Jun 07, 2018 Book of the Week — Movies as a Form of Reincarnation

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Images are digitally manipulated photocollages created and hand-colored by Archie Rand. The book was designed at Granary Books: the types used are Caslon Antique and Evil of Frankenstein; Silicon Gallery Fine Arts Prints in Philadelphia printed the book on the Iris 3047 using Lyson Quad-Black...

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Jun 07, 2018 On Jon’s Desk: Forkel’s Allgemeine Litteratur der Musik crosses paths with Harry Potter

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“I knew it! I knew it! ” “Are we allowed to speak yet?” said Ron grumpily. Hermione ignored him. “Nicolas Flamel,” she whispered dramatically, “is the only known maker of the Philosopher’s Stone!” This didn’t have quite the effect she’d expected. “The what?” said Harry and Ron. “Oh, honestly, don’t...

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