Jas Faulkner by Jas Faulkner It was the mid-eighties and I was wandering through the stacks of the old tower library at Memphis State University with a friend when she first pointed him out to me. He was hanging out at the end of a shelf and we couldn’t help but notice as the shaft of hot Delta … Read more
by Jas Faulkner Admitted or not, sometimes trapped deep beneath layers of intellectual noise is the part of us that wants to don a wolf suit and run wild, unfettered by the concerns of real life. The men and women who create those special places are our real life magic makers. Even if we know … Read more
The instinct to collect books has always been strong for many of us. To those who understand, the knee-high to be read pile is a sign of devotion to the written word. That moment when a side trip leads to shelves or boxes of books waiting to be claimed and loved or purchased and given … Read more
by Jas Faulkner Many of the stories that came in following this year’s World Book Night were inspirational. People chose to go to shelters, public kitchens and areas where they were likely to find people for whom the idea of owning a book was way down on the list below all of the details of … Read more
by Jas Faulkner Carr: Artists are members of a privileged class. Art is absurdly overrated by artists, which is understandable, but what is strange is that it is absurdly overrated by everyone else… When I was in school, on certain afternoons we all had to do what was called Labour-weeding, sweeping, sawing logs for the … Read more
by Jas Faulkner When the news came out that an inebriated Thomas Kinkade had urinated on a Winnie the Pooh statue that was standing in a corner of his suite at a Disney-owned resort, I raised an eyebrow, but shrugged. I had once stayed at a Disney-owned resort in Florida a few years back and … Read more
by Jas Faulkner [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL2KOcWGn-o&version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0] To experience a William Joyce book is the enter a place where things tend to fall together in a fashion that is both charmingly out of step with modern sensibilities and yet imbued with enough emotional currency that his words and images resonate with the most hard-bitten contemporary reader. His … Read more
Britannica has one T…Britannica has one T…Britannica has one T… and two Ns. >sigh< Yes, I am dyslexic. Really. Last week’s announcement that Encyclopedia Britannica would cease publication of its paper edition inspired a number of eulogies from book lovers. The cessation of their production affirms to many bibliophiles that the family bookshelf as an … Read more
