“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?” ~ Albert Einstein Creative people in history need to have the right workspace to work their magic. Their workspaces also reveal a lot about themselves and how they work. Here are 45 of some of … Read more
When the RMS Titanic sank in 1912, more than 1,500 people perished. We all know about that tragic story of the Titanic. But did you know that a writer wrote a book that forewarned of the tragedy 14 years before it even happened? In a spooky coincidence, Morgan Robertson, the author of the book The … Read more
Dr. Robert Beard has compiled a list of the most beautiful words in the English language in his over 40 years as a linguist. [wp_ad_camp_1]
This 16th century book is more than meets the eye. Housed at the National Library of Sweden, this small old book is a marvelous example of sixfold dos-à-dos binding, in which six books are conjoined into a single publication, which you can also read individually with the help of six perfectly placed clasps. Let’s take … Read more
This is such a wonderful story!
Jack London Friedrich Nietzsche Hans Christian Andersen Albert Camus Agatha Christie [wp_ad_camp_1] Aldous Huxley and D. H. Lawrence Bowie & Burroughs Ezra Pound by E.O. Hoppé, 1918 Françoise Sagan in the 1950s with her Smith-Corona portable typewriter Erich Maria Remarque J.D. Salinger spotted at a nudist getaway Tennessee Williams Marcel Proust playing air guitar on … Read more