November 27, 2013 Look The Female Gaze By Sadie Stein Miss last night’s McNally Jackson discussion of ekphrasis between Ben Lerner, Geoff Dyer, and our favorite moderator, editor Lorin Stein? Luckily for you, Kate Gavino of Last Night’s Reading illustrated one of many quotable moments.
November 21, 2013 Look The Literary World By Sadie Stein We love this map of the modern writer’s mind, by artist Joe Dunthorne. Check out his whole interactive site here. Click to enlarge. Via the Independent.
November 19, 2013 Look Actual Size By Sadie Stein The miniature book The Infant’s Library. Part of the British Library’s current exhibition “Georgians Revealed: Life, Style and the Making of Modern Britain.”
November 13, 2013 Look Page Views By Sadie Stein On the wonderful blog Retronaut, this intriguing image is twinned with a caption vague to the point of inscrutability. To wit, c. 1940s:Man with books The whole thing is rendered even more mysterious by the fact that the individual in question is obviously a woman. Or at the very least a man in tweedy drag. But more to the point, WHAT ARE ALL THESE ENORMOUS BOOKS? In the grand tradition of the Tootsie pop, the world may never know.
November 12, 2013 Look Here Be Dragons By Sadie Stein On this day in 1933, Hugh Gray took the first image to be identified as the Loch Ness Monster. He described it as an “object of considerable dimensions, making a big splash with spray on the surface of the Loch.” We were talking of dragons, Tolkien and IIn a Berkshire bar. The big workmanWho had sat silent and sucked his pipeAll the evening, from his empty mugWith gleaming eye glanced towards us:‘I seen ’em myself!’ he said fiercely. —C. S. Lewis