A Series of Headaches is a marvelous video from the London Review of Books documenting letterpress printer Nick Hand as he prints a page from the magazine using methods as close as he can get to ...
https://travelbetweenthepages.com/2024/05/06/a-series-of-headaches/
I always experience a frisson of nostalgia whenever I stumble upon a memorable book from my childhood library. It’s been a long, long time, but I still remember my battered copy of of The Wond...
https://travelbetweenthepages.com/2024/05/05/of-myths-and-legends/
Today is Free Comic Book Day, in which you can go to any participating comic book store and get certain designated comic books, absolutely free. Enter your zip code at this website and you can f...
https://travelbetweenthepages.com/2024/05/04/free-comic-book-day-2/
I was saddened to read about the death of the great American writer Paul Auster, who succumbed due to complications arising from lung cancer, aged 77. Auster, who has been celebrated as one of th...
https://travelbetweenthepages.com/2024/05/03/literary-leviathan/
Dracula Daily Returning May 3 You may remember DraculaDaily, which has been an annual paean to the beloved Gothic vampire classic first published in 1897. The novel Dracula by Bram Stoker unfolds...
https://travelbetweenthepages.com/2024/05/02/dracula-returns-daily/
About seven ago while visiting Iceland’s underappreciated northern town Akureyri, I stumbled across a charming used bookshop called Fróði fornbókabúð. The owner at the time told me that th...
https://travelbetweenthepages.com/2024/05/01/bookstore-tourism-iceland/
When I visited Rome for the first time more than four decades ago, I quite randomly chose to pop in at the Museo della Civiltà Romana to see the massive model of the ancient city. The archaeolog...
https://travelbetweenthepages.com/2024/04/30/when-in-rome-5/
1. The rarest book in the world is a 1593 first edition of Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare. The Bodleian’s copy “is the only known copy of this book in existence.” 2. The fi...
Backdrop Backdrop is a map based game which is somewhat similar to the very popular GeoGuessr game. However in Backdrop instead of Google Maps Street View images you have to identify the locatio...
https://travelbetweenthepages.com/2024/04/27/fun-and-games-with-art-and-maps/