Bill Cheng's Blog, page 30
June 6, 2014
explore-blog:
In 1967, shortly after illustrating a Tolstoy...
In 1967, shortly after illustrating a Tolstoy novel and four years after his iconic Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak was commissioned to illustrate a 30th anniversary edition of Tolkien’s The Hobbit (the original edition of which the author had illustrated himself). However, the project fell through and this drawing is the only surviving Sendak illustration from it.
Complement with Tolkien’s own little-known art.
(via Open Culture)
June 3, 2014
colchrishadfield:
Little-known space fact: the fuel to steer...
Little-known space fact: the fuel to steer the Soyuz capsule is Hydrogen Peroxide.
"Children not only learn to read more quickly when they first learn to write by hand, but they also..."
- What’s Lost as Handwriting Fades - NYTimes.com (via infoneer-pulse)
penamerican:
Tell us what #FreeExpressionIs to...
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June 2, 2014
In advance of my conversation with @smith_henderson tonight at...
In advance of my conversation with @smith_henderson tonight at greenlightbklyn, here he is on The Leonard Lopate show!
guernicamag:
Our new issue is out! Featuring nonfiction from...
Our new issue is out! Featuring nonfiction from Nathan Deuel and John Patrick Leary; interviews between Kiese Laymon & Stanley Nelson and Aditi Sriram & Ayad Akhtar; poetry from Milorad Pejić and Mia Leonin; fiction from Vladimir Kozlov and Josh Weil; and in art, Alex Zafiris writing on the work of Mika Rottenberg.
Read the new issue here.
theparisreview:
“Though their obsolescence has been prophesied...
“Though their obsolescence has been prophesied at various points, neighborhoods remain a vital—perhaps the most vital—way of .”
For more of this morning’s roundup, click here.
