“NOLA is a city with more festivals than there are days in the year; it’s also the murder capital of the country. This year’s Mother’s Day shooting, when nineteen people were wounded during a second line, is one example of New Orleans’ phenomenon of everyday celebration and violence.” - Delaney Nolan
Two photographers took these images at almost exactly the same time. Year in Reading alum Geoff Dyer explains how their work differs.
Japanese booksellers are not content to handsell books these days. No, no. Instead, they’re drawing on architectural know-how and creative spirit in order to master “the avant-garde art of book stacking.” (Hopefully none of them experience the Mariko Aoki phenomenon.)
Nisa Maier curates a collection of photographs and stories meant to “capture the essence of every country on the planet.” The end result, Let’s Travel Somewhere, can take you from India to Cuba, or from Russia to New Zealand.
You told LJ about over 390 of your favorite Tumblrs. Here they are, from most to least popular:
- thelifeguardlibrarian, with 29 mentions
- libraryjournal, with 16 mentions
- fishingboatproceeds, with 13 mentions (sorry John Green, Kate & LJ won this battle)
- librarianproblems, with nine mentions
- nypl, with six mentions
- oupacademic
- schoollibraryjournal
- todaysdocument
- motherjones, with five mentions
- neil-gaiman
- slaughterhouse90210
- theatlantic
- theparisreview
- therumpus
- betterbooktitles, with four mentions
- bookriot
- chicagopubliclibrary
- darienlibrary
- doctorwho
- edwardspoonhands
- ilovecharts
- johndarnielle
- laura-in-libraryland
- libraryadvocates
- mentalflossr
- nprfreshair
- shortformblog
- theartofgooglebooks
- unypl
- wilwheaton
41 out of 390 ain’t bad considering all of the awesome blogs on this list. However if you want even more great Tumblr goodness (and in particular you want things related to books, art and photography), you should check out our three-part Guide to the Best Literary Tumblr Blogs:
Baltimore’s Poe House might be saved after all, so to celebrate here are some of Édouard Manet’s illustrations from the French edition of “The Raven.”
Presented Without Comment: the newly unveiled logo for the newly enacted College Football Playoff and the new poster for Lars von Trier’s latest film, Nymphomaniac.
“Born from universal ideas, crafted by the hands of artists, written with passion, the comic strip has become the medium for narratives that can be read again and again and images that can be stared at pensively in the hushed space of a museum.”
The Black and the White: Maus and the Art Spiegelman Exhibit by Charles-Adam Foster-Simard
“The Art Spiegelman exhibit, which collects decades of material from the artist’s personal collection, makes the artist’s struggle visible on the curated walls of a museum.”
The Black and the White: Maus and the Art Spiegelman Exhibit by Charles-Adam Foster-Simard
David Orr investigates the day jobs of some modern poets, and notes “the university job is a relatively recent development in Anglo-American poetry.” Indeed, as this playful illustration from Incidental Comics makes clear, poets have engaged in a wide array of salaried jobs – from pediatricians to bank clerks to diplomats. Previously, we took a look at writers and their day jobs, too.
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