Nature
Green Books Campaign: Savage Gods, Silver Ghosts
by Levi Asher on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 12:01 am
Eco-Libris, a company dedicated to positive environmental practices in the book publishing business, is currently sponsoring a Green Books Campaign, a blogger event designed to call attention to green publishing in which 100 blogs will simultaneously review 100 green-published books.
Human Nature
by Levi Asher on Thursday, November 5, 2009 10:42 pm
Some of my literary/blogger friends have taken to tweeting their literary links. Not me -- I'm holding out for the blog format, just like McSweeney's is holding out for newspapers. Here's another roundup involving great writers and other finds ...
1. Nature magazine goes way back.
American Sages: Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Pete Seeger
by Levi Asher on Tuesday, March 24, 2009 08:03 am
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet, global activist and indie publisher extraordinaire, turns 90 years old today. Here's his LitKicks biography page, and here's the poem we've been running on this site for many years:
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by Levi Asher on Monday, April 21, 2008 09:50 pm
1. I don't usually pay attention to "Earth Day" any more than to "National Poetry Month", but that doesn't mean I can't call attention to an impressive book that's hitting the stores on this day, Tuesday, April 22.
Lay Down Your Weary Tune
by Levi Asher on Monday, February 11, 2008 05:58 pm
This little-known 1963 Bob Dylan song popped up in my iPod Shuffle recently. It's an ecstatic nature poem, vaguely Blake-ian, and I find it most remarkable for its unlikely metaphors, each describing the passage of a day in orchestral terms.
Talking Green Publishing with Raz Godelnik
by Levi Asher on Thursday, November 22, 2007 12:17 pm
Eco-Libris is a company created to help the book publishing industry adopt more environmentally aware practices. Activities include tree plantings in collaboration with organizations like RIPPLE Africa in countries like Malawi (shown in photo). I recently got a chance to ask the company's CEO, Raz Godelnik, a few questions.
Walden, or Life in the Woods, by Henry David Thoreau
by Levi Asher on Thursday, July 5, 2007 06:43 pm
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, to see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when it came time to die, to discover that I had not lived.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden
