Reading 50 pages a day every day for an entire year. Once the girls arrived and we were happily tucked into some burrata and rose, we spotted not one, but two BBCE members walking up Yonge. Not a lot of diversity at Yonge and Price, as it happens. A statistician would find a correlation between this and the proliferation of mules, I bet. I have a theory as to why.

This site is devoted to the history. At the close of the 20th Century some flea-bitten, sun-bleached, fly-specked, rat-gnawed, dandruff- sprinkled professor of literature is going to write a five-volume history of the books of our century. In it a chapter will be devoted to publishers and editors of books, and in that chapter perhaps a footnote will be given to me.

Cuaderno pensativo y habitación secreta de una viajera eterna. Sábado, 25 de febrero de 2017. En 1961, el genio de Stanisław Lem en su libro Retorno de las estrellas. Imaginó los ebooks y los audiobooks. A su personaje, Hal Bregg, esos inventos le parecían un puñado de granos de crista. Estoy meditando una reseña del libro, pronto en el blog. Domingo, 12 de febrero de 2017.

A book whose allure is actually increased by its utter lack of practical utility for most earthlings. Shelve these next to Tom of Finland! A Sherlock Holmes mystery grows even more mysterious when printed in shorthand. In this day the sign letterer who does not understand colors and color harmony, and who does not know how to get up signs in color, is greatly handicapped, and his usefulness as a sign letterer is seriously interfered with.

Words and images by Elizabeth Mitchell. The final weekend of the International Festival of Authors is upon us.