Dreamers Rise

Glenway Wescott: "There were two albums of embossed leather studded with buttons which resembled shoe buttons, and one with cellulo...

Glenway Wescott: "There was a shell on the sideboard, a conch shell in the shape of a horn, which, when held to the ear, repeated the ...

Singer-songwriter Freedy Johnston doesn't exactly flood the market with releases of new material, and Neon Repairman, just out, is on...

The artist and printmaker Annie Bissett has discovered this wonderful bit of found poetry, which she has posted on her Tumblr blog . Adapte...

I've been too busy of late to write anything substantial but not, happily, too busy to read. These three books have very little in commo...

Satori Ediciones in Spain has published its second collection of translations into Spanish of the Japanese writer Izumi Kyōka (1873-1939)...

Charles Shirō Inouye: "The fixed point of view of the realistic painter finds its analogue in the omniscient perspective of the autho...

This may be my favorite photograph ever: via Bibliodyssey (Tumblr), an image from a Sotheby's auction lot of glass negatives by Samu...

This merits a look: Re-envisioning Japan: Japan as Destination in 20th-Century Visual and Material Culture , a new "interactive archiv...

"One day we walked out, a little party of three, to Albano, fourteen miles distant; possessed by a great desire to go there by the an...

Ran away, a negro woman and two children. A few days before she went off, I burnt her with a hot iron, on the left side of her face. I tri...

"It is very remarkable, that as we dream in words, and carry on imaginary conversations, in which we speak both for ourselves and for t...

This is really splendid: fiddler Martin Hayes and guitarist Dennis Cahill, from NPR's Tiny Desk Concert series. I love the relaxed int...

Two men with lit cigars and a third man, seated, whose own smoke is still tucked in his pocket. Though the postcard was never addressed or...

The young woman whose likeness was captured in this Real Photo postcard image was a schoolteacher in Red Wing (or Redwing), Kansas in 19...

for Michael Leddy Top: Ogdred Weary (Edward Gorey), The Dancing Rock (bound with Dogear Wryde, The Floating Elephant ), The Fantod ...

"Just a few of our crowd and guess you will know the majority of them. If not will tell you of them later." Mailed from Salina, Ka...

This short novel, published in 1981, is based on an incident that had taken place some 30 years earlier, when a young man named Cayetano Gen...

Clases de literatura: Berkeley, 1980, published in 2013, presents the transcription of a series of seminars that Julio Cortázar conducted (...

From 1933 to 1942, the composer and ethnomusicologist Yuri Arbatsky traveled in the Balkans, studying and recording the folk music tradit...