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Bookscapes, Book Gardens
By
Sadie Stein
August 17, 2012
On the Shelf
A
literary moonscape
by Guy Laramée.
More amazing book art: a visit to Quebec’s
Garden of Decaying Books
.
“A hundred and twenty five years ago, Oscar Wilde edited a fashion magazine, his first and only office job. We have yet to learn from the experience.”
LARB
on Wilde’s day job.
For the first four decades of competition, the Olympics awarded official medals for painting, sculpture, architecture, literature and music, alongside those for the athletic competitions.
If you’re in Boston this weekend, enjoy the
Dog Day Poetry Marathon
, featuring Dorothea Lasky, Jim Behrle, and Eileen Myles (among many others).
“As he told her that he loved her she gazed into his eyes, wondering, as she noted the infestation of eyelash mites, the tiny deodicids burrowing into his follicles to eat the greasy sebum therein, each female laying up to 25 eggs in a single follicle, causing inflammation, whether the eyes are truly the windows of the soul; and, if so, his soul needed regrouting.” Cathy Bryant of Manchester, England, has won the 2012
Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
, which celebrates the worst in writing.
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