Because I was determined that my life be about more than my worst hours on earth —River Bend Chronicle by Ben Miller
Type treatment by Eric Tran, Lookout Intern
the blog of Ecotone magazine and Lookout Books
the blog of Ecotone magazine and Lookout Books
Because I was determined that my life be about more than my worst hours on earth —River Bend Chronicle by Ben Miller
Type treatment by Eric Tran, Lookout Intern
A great Banned Books Week message from Author Judy Blume!
Steve Almond’s God Bless America is the book of the week on Fiction Writers Review.
In two weeks, they will be giving away signed copies of the book to three of their Twitter followers!
Here’s a little perspective: In 1939, gas cost 10 cents a gallon at the pump. A movie ticket set you back 20 cents. John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, the year’s bestselling hardcover book, was $2.75. For a nation suffering 20 percent unemployment, books were an impossible expense.
How Paperbacks Transformed the Way Americans Read – Mental Floss (via bookriot)
Wow! This excellent article puts a lot of things into perspective.
Believe it or not, Generation Y might just be the most bibliophilic generation alive, according to a new consumer study. Gen Y – those born between 1979 and 1989 – spent the most money on books in 2011, knocking the longtime book-buying leaders, baby boomers, from the top spot, according to the 2012 U.S. Book Consumer Demographics and Buying Behaviors Annual Review.
Okay, now we only need about 5 or 6 more awards so we can just make the whole book out of gold.
– John Mortara, Lookout Intern
Wallace’s psychological struggles, it becomes evident, made him more humble and empathic. He found in the recovery process, and later in nonfiction assignments, a means by which he could cast his gaze onto the world around him and away from the dark reverberations within him. The cleverness in which he cloaked himself gave way to an overt and insistent humanism.