Tag: Literature
Every time you save an image as a JPEG, some of the original information is lost forever. This loss of information is hard to detect with an untrained eye. In an attempt to demonstrate exactly what is happening here, blogger Tom Scott has taken the original text from William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and processed it […]
The week-long Brooklyn festivities celebrating beautiful creep Henry Miller are mid-swing. Through Sunday, City Reliquary is showing off the writer’s “original manuscripts, letters,” etc as Henry Miller’s Memorial Library project hangs out on the East Coast. It’s called “Big Sur,” after a place that Miller actually liked, unlike Brooklyn. The New Yorker reminds you that Henry Miller […]
In Othello, Shakespeare famously wrote that “Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.” Yep, turns out he was talking out of his ass. A recently published study from Aberystwyth University suggests that England’s most revered playwright was actually a rich, miserly landowner who took advantage of the poor and was repeatedly busted for tax […]
Blackout Books was the archetypical “radical bookstore,” a small project started in 1993 by a handful of people selling books from a table during punk shows at the activist center and gallery space ABC No Rio. After about a year of fundraising, they signed a lease for a storefront on Avenue B in the East […]
