Tag Archives: bookfuturism

Julian Smith: don't you ever interrupt me while I'm reading a book. Video after the jump.

From Steve Martin to the shield of Achilles, considering the relationship of image and text in a networked age.

Two very different sets of assumptions about what books are and what reading them in a networked age should be like.

Jonathan Safran Foer's new book, The Tree of Codes, has a marvelous title. But the real marvel begins when you turn the cover to find that the story is literally carved out of another work�namely, The Street of Crocodiles, the 1934 cycle of short stories by martyred Polish writer Bruno Schulz. There's a gadget angle to all this, but you'll have to follow the jump for it.