Author Archives: kara

About kara

We know our letters just fine, and we know our numbers to a certain point, but books were always the realm of four-eyed poindexters with bowler hats and cravats. That’s why it pleases us so that America’s proud illiterates are finally stepping up and pushing back against the crushing tide of education that threatens to swallow us all into its gaping maw of checked facts. Champions of the Ignorantiat will not like it here.

HAPPY PALENTINE’S DAY! (A LOVE LETTER)

Posted on February 13, 2011 by kara

A reprinting of my 2010 Valentine to the Queen of Mean. Originally Published at The Huffington Post, February 14th, 2010 Hi Sarah! Happy Valentine’s Day. . I thought I really ought to be send you a Valentine’s Day greeting today, because … Continue reading →

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Posted on February 13, 2011 by kara

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life and see if I could not learn what they had to teach; and not, when I came to die, discover that … Continue reading →

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Ma vie dans les livres

Posted on February 12, 2011 by kara

Last year, I visited every book shop in Paris. This was the first.

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Thought in Cold Storage.

Posted on February 11, 2011 by kara

Cradley Heath Library in Birmingham. Not the Super Library. Finally, the city of Birmingham is scheduled to open its lauded new Super Library, in the works for a decade and tipping the cash register at $301 million. Ten blisteringly new … Continue reading →

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Another Autobiography Literally NO one is Interested in.

Posted on February 9, 2011 by kara

from guardianuk A new autobiography is about to hit the shelves, but if you were told it was by someone called Taboo, would that mean anything to you? Here are a few clues. It starts with a quote from Thoreau … Continue reading →

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Posted on February 9, 2011 by kara

What’s funny about a grown man crying over the closing of his local library – and every other free library in the city of Philadelphia? Nothing. Except if you are the Huffington Post who chose to mock such a man. … Continue reading →

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Jacket Gallery.

Posted on February 5, 2011 by kara

Design by Mucca Design. Illustrated by Dennnis Clouse of Cyclone design, from Iris Murdoch Series. Rizzoli. Hardcover, 2003

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Libraries in Cool Films

Posted on February 4, 2011 by kara

Because some day soon there won’t be library scenes in movies anymore.

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Zoinks! Archie Andrews Puts the Final Nail in the Coffin of the Comics Code Authority Seal Of Approval.

Posted on January 31, 2011 by kara

Last Friday, Archie Comics Publications, Inc. announced that it would no longer feature the Comics Code Authority’s Seal of Approval – the CCA being a mysterious, publishing association which for over 50 years served as the comics industry’s self-regulating arm … Continue reading →

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Posted on January 26, 2011 by kara

portrait of the author

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