Jack Kerouac's On the Road celebrates its fiftieth anniversary today. This is a book that caused the biggest argument in the history of a very combative book club I was in several years ago. Some of us loved it; some of us didn't. I'll just say that for OtR lovers, there's a plethora of web … Continue reading On the Road Again
Author: Anders
Bad to Verse
I love a good pun. And I adore a bad one. So I was pleased to find this gem among the recently announced winners of the 2007 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest:I was in a back alley in Fiji, fighting desperately and silently for my life, fighting desperately for oxygen, clawing at the calm and almost gentle … Continue reading Bad to Verse
The Kindest Cut
We're not in the business of destroying books. In fact, we sell mylar covers if you want to give your books a little extra protection. But even so, I really like how Scottish artist Georgia Russell takes a scalpel to books and turns them into incredible, spiky works of art. You can see much more … Continue reading The Kindest Cut
Musings from Magers and Quinn 