bookmania:

Kafka, F., Das Schloss (The Castle). (via kettererkunst)

Read the full text HERE.

(via bugseatbooks)

nprfreshair:

Last night: Maurice Sendak on Colbert Pt. 1

Last September: Maurice Sendak on Fresh Air

Last June: Stephen Colbert on Fresh Air

Tonight: Terry Gross and Maurice Sendak (Pt 2) on Colbert (possibly probably not also featuring Vin Diesel)

I don’t care if it’s a joke, I’m still willing to bet money that this book is better than the sequel to The Graduate

arsenalvisual:

The grid behind a Penguin book cover.

(Source: nowinpocketsize, via typographie)

pelz:

Martian Chronicles, The by DEM’s Book Shelves on Flickr.

(via fuckyeahsciencefiction)

The Cartoons of Flannery O’Connor

Who knew one of my favorite southern novelists was also a cartoonist?!  I guess I would have had I bothered to read The Guardian this past July…

Flavorwire also posted a large selection of them.

Did you know G.W.F. Hegel’s  great-great-great-grandson is a pioneer of the cyberpunk literary movement?  If you’d like to read Rudy Rucker’s entire Ware Tetralogy, he’s got a full downloadable version here:

http://www.rudyrucker.com/wares/rucker_ware_tetralogy_cc2010.pdf

latestcoolthing:

Philip K. Dick’s Natal Chart. 

Happy B day PKD! Long may your words live. 

“Therefore, you are certainly a passionate man who is on the lookout for any kind of action or revolutionary idea, and you are keen on new things. Uranians are never predictable, and it is especially when they are believed to be stable and well settled that… they change everything - their life, partner, and job! In fact, you are allergic to any kind of routine, although avoiding it must give way to many risks.”

Click for rest of the text…

(via fuckyeahpkd)