Shakespeare & Co.

10/31/2012

We are going to assess the state of our stores today and see what power outages and flooding might need to be dealt with. Hopefully we'll be back in operation quickly and will see you all soon!

10/26/2012

RT 10 literary dishes and their real-life recipes, from our friends at

For those that love words and those that love food, the combination is heaven. I first learned how literary food could make my mouth water and tongue slurp like Wile E. Coyote through Dr. Seuss. Green Eggs and Ham, man.

10/25/2012

The Bookstore Brain: How Bookstores Choose Their Books via

Bookstores are in essence personal libraries. In this way, they are macrocosms of the books they contain—there is life inside them.

10/24/2012

The Making of Cloud Atlas via

It's not easy to imagine how a book like Cloud Atlas, the 2004 novel by David Mitchell, could become the Cloud Atlas movie, written and directed by Tom Tykwer and the Matrix-creating Wachowski siblings.

10/22/2012

Finnegans Wake: An Illustrated Panorama via

I wanted to illustrate something impossible, so I chose Finnegans Wake. It would be silly for me to draw in a few panels a work that took James Joyce seventeen years to complete. So I cheated.

10/18/2012

October 23 at FIT: 'A Conversation on the State of the Economy'

10/17/2012

Eudora Welty, age 23, applies for a job at the New Yorker via

Fascinating letters. Interesting correspondence.

10/15/2012

"My head looks like an uncooked ham with glasses." Q&A w/Chris Ware via

'What is my most treasured possession? Eyes'

10/12/2012

The Tucci Cookbook http://bit.ly/OYpFHn What's yours?

There is some truth to the old adage “Most of the world eats to live, but Italians live to eat.” What is it about a good Italian supper that feels like home, no matter where you’re from?

10/10/2012

Raise a Glass to Kingsley Amis at tomorrow with via

Celebrate Kingsley Amis with Rosie Schaap, Maud Newton, Parul Sehgal and cocktails provided by Brooklyn Gin.

10/05/2012

Ray Bradbury's 'The Book And The Butterfly'

Excerpted from The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012. Introduction © 2012 by Ray Bradbury, Reproduced by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

10/03/2012

Gary Panter's Drawing Tips via

One of UNBORED‘s favorite artists of all time is Gary Panter who became well-known in the 1970s as one of the first New Wave cartoonists (with his post-apocalyptic comic JIMBO) and graphic designers, and who went on to win 3 Emmy Awards for his Pee-Wee’s Playhouse set design.