May 24, 2013 Look Do Not Eat Library Paste By Sadie Stein Deeply tragic, deeply instructive. Via Dangerous Minds.
May 23, 2013 Look Choose Your Own Adventure: Author Edition By Sadie Stein Herewith, a handy-dandy infographic that lays out the basic publishing options for an author. Via Jane Friedman. Click the image to access a zoomable file.
May 21, 2013 Look Booked By Sadie Stein This is the Library Hotel, in Koh Samui, Thailand. We appreciate the image’s caption: “Real happiness is not complicated at all.” Indeed, we would go so far as to say it doesn’t even require a plane ticket and a hotel room … but it’s lovely to look at, no?
May 14, 2013 Look In Chains By Sadie Stein “I took these pictures during a visit to the 16th-century chained library of Zutphen, in the east of the Netherlands,” writes Erik Kwakkel. “It is one of three such libraries still in existence in Europe. Nothing much has changed here for 550 years.”
May 7, 2013 Look The Tiny Gatsby By Sadie Stein Even if, like some of us, you already have Great Gatsby fatigue, you can enjoy playing with this (raven-haired) F. Scott Fitzgerald doll. Send him and Zelda out on the town. Let Hemingway insult him in a rental car. Send him to the south with the Murphys (although you’ll have to use a Barbie and Ken or someone to play them). Bring him to the movies and let him weep into his tiny martini as you watch Baz Luhrmann’s extravaganza.
April 24, 2013 Look Lello Bookstore, Porto, Portugal By Sadie Stein The Lello bookstore, Porto, Portugal. “Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace.” —Helene Hanff, Q’s Legacy