The LitSoc

Lost Daphne du Maurier stories discovered

loonybird — Tue, 15 May 2012 14:59:12 +0530

Lost Daphne du Maurier stories discovered:

Bookseller unearths five early Daphne du Maurier tales including a risqué short story entitled ‘The Doll’. By a fascinating woman.

How to Open a New Book. explore-blog: “Moral: Even a well-bound...

loonybird — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:20:01 +0530

How to Open a New Book.

explore-blog:

“Moral: Even a well-bound book may be easily ruined at first opening.”

So you know, how to open a new book – usage tips from a legendary bookbinder. Complement with Mortimer Adler’s tips on how to read a book.

alldariagifs: Daria: No, I’ve written a lot of stuff, but it’s...

loonybird — Fri, 11 May 2012 14:14:36 +0530

alldariagifs:

Daria: No, I’ve written a lot of stuff, but it’s not up to my standards. And that disturbs me, because I don’t have standards.

Writer’s block?

Bird illustrations

loonybird — Fri, 11 May 2012 13:59:58 +0530

Bird illustrations:

Awesomeness.

letterheady: American Zoetrope, 1980 | Source Letterhead once...

loonybird — Thu, 10 May 2012 14:11:51 +0530

letterheady:

American Zoetrope, 1980 | Source

Letterhead once used by Francis Ford Coppola’s film studio, American Zoetrope.

This combines the key passions of many a freelance editor very...

loonybird — Thu, 10 May 2012 14:04:00 +0530

This combines the key passions of many a freelance editor very nicely…

(via Society for Editors and Proofreaders)

What’s been on everyone’s mind lately?

loonybird — Wed, 09 May 2012 17:12:40 +0530

What’s been on everyone’s mind lately?

“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they...

loonybird — Wed, 09 May 2012 16:25:00 +0530

“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Floating Bookshop.

loonybird — Wed, 09 May 2012 13:21:50 +0530

The Floating Bookshop.

Interview with Bar and Bench about Sauce magazine

loonybird — Mon, 07 May 2012 13:38:48 +0530

Interview with Bar and Bench about Sauce magazine

A fascinating look at mobile libraries from around the globe.

loonybird — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:47:50 +0530

A fascinating look at mobile libraries from around the globe.

Soooooooo have you checked out the latest issue of Sauce...

loonybird — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:09:46 +0530

Soooooooo have you checked out the latest issue of Sauce yet?

http://saucemagazine.wordpress.com/

"The monetization model of online publishing — a legacy model that hasn’t changed since the golden..."

loonybird — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 01:25:42 +0530

“The monetization model of online publishing — a legacy model that hasn’t changed since the golden age of newspapers — is breeding even more mediocre and questionable content. Because this model puts the advertiser, not the reader, first, we suffer the same atrocities a newspaper editor lamented in 1923 when he bemoaned the way in which the circulation manager had taken over the newspaper and eclipsed the editor. As long as the ad-supported pageview remains the main currency of funding writing online, we’ll continue getting slideshows about kittens, HuffPost-ified sensationalist headlines, one-page articles artificially split into five pages, and other such assaults on the reader. To have intelligent readers, we need intelligent writers, certainly, but also intelligent publishing. I hope to see this ecosystem evolve towards a meritocracy, where content gets published because it is good, and because readers find value in it and are willing to put a price on this value. Reading is voting for writing, and I hope to see our votes count for more than they currently do.”

- Maria Popova (via nedhepburn)

Oh hey! We had this exact conversation yesterday, over kombucha and Kate Beaton comics.

(via rachelfershleiser)

Ra-men.

Not just newspapers, obviously. It’s why I will continue to yearn for the next Ragtime while scorning 50 Shades of Grey and Twilight.

(via the-sunny-side)

New issue of Sauce!

loonybird — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 09:42:58 +0530

The latest issue of our magazine, Sauce is out. It has some awesome content from promising writers. Be sure to check it out! :)

http://saucemagazine.wordpress.com/

Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy

loonybird — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:12:31 +0530

Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy:

Cultivating the capacity to believe six impossible things before breakfast.

The Complete Sherlock Holmes.

loonybird — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:02:27 +0530

Angled view

The Complete Sherlock Holmes.

Is piracy the new advertising?

loonybird — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:45:11 +0530

Is piracy the new advertising?:

“A friend sent me a link to a YouTube video of author Neil Gaiman giving his opinion of online piracy. He says that in the early days of the web he was staunchly against it, but with time he’s come around to believing that far from being a bad practice, piracy actually increases his book sales.”…

Read more on this idea in the soon upcoming issue of The LitSoc magazine, Sauce.

Admit it. We’re all booksniffers.

loonybird — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 00:29:42 +0530

Admit it. We’re all booksniffers.

teachingliteracy: iloveoldmagazines: Holiday April 1961 via...

loonybird — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 00:31:49 +0530

teachingliteracy:

iloveoldmagazines:

Holiday

April 1961

via survival2019

From our wonderful sister blog, I Love Old Magazines!

Read of the Day: “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, The...

loonybird — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:37:23 +0530

Read of the Day: “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe

Click the photo for a full-text version of the short story.