This just might be the world's most beautiful bookstore. It's an eight-hundred-year-old converted Dominican church in Maastricht, in the Netherlands. Today it's part of the Selexyz chain. Best of all, it's an English-language bookstore, so if you get the chance to visit, you can take home a souvenir you can actually read.Check out thecoolhunter.net for … Continue reading The Wow Factor
Happy Birthday, Calvin
Today is Calvin Trillin's birthday. Trillin is a prolific writer, whose work spans several disparate genres, and he's one of my favorite authors.Trillin is an avid eater and food writer: The Tummy Trilogy brings together three of his best works on the subject.He's a wicked political poet: besides being the "Deadline Poet" for The Nation … Continue reading Happy Birthday, Calvin
Art Imitates Life (Retroactively)
In the wake of the Gillian Gibbons teddy bear brouhaha in Sudan (details here), a British author has decided to revise an existing children's book to change a character's name from Mohammed to something less potentially offensive.The Times of India reports, "Gray's book, an illustrated volume called Who's Poorly Too, has sold 40,000 copies in … Continue reading Art Imitates Life (Retroactively)
Musings from Magers and Quinn 