I have nothing particularly interesting to say tonight. I'm still reading
Tender is the Night....it's due on Saturday, so I have to finish it pretty quickly now. I will say that it's just starting to get scandalous. I'm amazed by what these old novels got away with; this is not the quaint, innocent age of old we like to think of. There's a high dosage of innuendo in every chapter, and a lot of other heavy topics besides.
In any case, I thought that tonight I'd pass along a few interesting things I've seen and bookmarked lately:
I don't know whether to love or hate this. Part of me, the little tradition-loving, old-things-adoring part, says "YOU DESTROYED A BOOK?!? HOW COULD YOU?!?" And the other part says, "A-MA-ZING. DO IT AGAIN!"
And since I have no respect for math books whatsoever, I kind of love this one:
Best use of a math book I've ever seen. Ever. See more from the artist at the
Hokey Stokes! blog.
And while you're out there browsing the web, check out this list of
10 Unfinished Novels written by famous authors.
I love and hate the publication of unfinished novels in the same way that I love and hate book art: I'm intrigued by it, and it can be beautiful, but in the same token it seems to almost discredit the authors to publish these works. As a sometimes-writer-who-doesn't-have-the-patience-to-actually-write-books, I know that there is an INSANE amount of work that goes into writing, re-writing, editing, and preparing a manuscript. It is painstaking work, and for most of the authors on that list, the task was done without the modern conveniences of computers or even typewriters (No wonder so many books were unfinished at the time of their deaths; can you imagine churning out a 600-page novel out by hand?).
Putting these incomplete works out into the world is like displaying a half-iced cake in the window of the bakery after the baker's sudden and untimely death. It just doesn't seem right.
I found both of these articles on the
blog at
Out of Print Clothing, a mission-based clothing company that donates a book to a community in need for every shirt purchased. Most of the shirts are printed with original cover art from classic novels, like these for
The Catcher in the Rye and
On the Road:
Recently, they collaborated with an artist to add some inspired new designs, like these for
The Great Gatsby and
The Outsiders:
Not surprisingly, my two favorite tees are for my two favorite books ever:
Love them. Love love love.
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