Dreamers Rise

A friend of mine recommended this volume of short stories, by an author whose name was unknown to me, and although I'm perhaps not the e...

THE GRAND PRIEST People of Argos, I say to you that this woman is committing sacrilege. Unhappiness be upon her and on any among you who ...

His life has been taken, but his voice is not stilled. Give the pocket history lesson above a listen. Below is his official biography, comp...

I rounded the corner, walking from one sleepy back street to another, and just for an instant a view opened out, between the trees in their ...

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 ...