1001 Books To Read Before You Die

doubledaybooks:

“I want to gather up all the ink cartridges in the universe, because somewhere, mixed in with all that ink, is the next great American novel. And I’d love nothing more than to drink it.”  ― Jarod Kintz

oldfilmsflicker:

F. Scott Fitzgerald sent himself a postcard once.

(via socalfeminist)

ebookporn:

laraprescott:

Independent bookstores across America by Dwell. Interact + add.

Filling up the car right now… ~ eP

teachingliteracy:

Why I Write by George Orwell (by James A. Reeves)

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Jon Stewart, explaining to young people why books are awesome.

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Shakespeare.

Vice President Joe “the BAMF” Biden, in a speech launching the federal government’s campaign to fight sexual violence on college campuses (via girl-non-grata)

I’m sorry, but I had to! 

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designandcrime:

Meriç Algün Ringborg - The Library of Unborrowed Books (2012)

There is a selection made of what books accompany us into the future. Within education, for instance, the establishment of a canon is clear – it is the venue for the particular echo that determines what books persevere, those that are to be kept in the loop and read again by the next generation. This comes natural, a selection is necessary, and it’s made in different instances either conscious or unconscious. Nevertheless, the books that are left behind — those deemed useless or for unknown reasons are abandoned — still exist in physical form, organized and systematized within the one institution representative of knowledge in all its forms, the library.

The Library of Unborrowed Books bases itself on the concept of the library as an institution manifesting language and knowledge, of the passing of awareness and the openness to all types of people and literature. This work, however, comprises all the books from a selected library that have never been borrowed. The framework in this instance hints at what has been disregarded, knowledge essentially unconsumed, and puts on display what has eluded us.

Why these books aren’t ‘chosen,’ why they are overlooked, will never be clear but whatever each book contains, en masse they become representative of the gaps and cracks of history, or the bureaucratic cataloging of the world and the ambivalent relationship between absence and presence. In this library their existence is validated simply by being borrowed, underlining their being as well as their content and form by putting them on display in an autonomous library dedicated to the books yet to have been revealed.

vintageanchor:

“Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.”
—Literature and Ethics, entry for 1901, by André Gide

Hmmmm!

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