Alvy Ampersand highlighted cartoonist Chris Ware's look back at American author and illustrator Richard Scarry. Just in time for the 50th Anniversary of Scarry's beloved illustrated book, Cars and Trucks and Things That Go!
Detail from a cover of Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy
In the Paul Auster obit thread, Kattullus commented with a lovely personal remembrance of the author, and the enduring resonance Auster has had in his life.
Lying Liars by katmeresin (cc by)
Next you're going to tell me it was actually only a couple of hundred yards to go before he slept? – not_on_display
"the best example in all of American poetry of a wolf in sheep’s cloth" explains how everyone knows Robert Frost’s "The Road Not Taken" – and how almost everyone gets it wrong (though not everyone: "I wrote a whole commencement speech about this general idea")
Plus a post about Best American Poetry guest editor Sherman Alexie's response re a white male poet who appropriated a Chinese name for submission to the anthology
and in Ask Me, looking for the author who said (something like) "The poet lies ... most especially when writing about himself"
A Storm of Swords by flossyflotsam (cc by)
What books hold up so well to re-reading that it makes you suspect they were engineered that way? Are there examples of books that seem to be MUCH better on second reading? What kind of things did the author do to achieve that?
kk asks, What books seem to have been written to be re-read?
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