We have no idea what we don't know about writing until we see someone doing something else with it. And it's my great good fortune that in voyaging about among the endangered alphabets, I've found people doing things with writing that change the very definition of writing. This delightful image, for example, is a detail … Continue reading #EndangeredAlphabets: Consider the Mermaid
The Booktrekker: Indonesia
READ Many of the books I read for this blog are tedious and take me forever to get through. That was not the case for the book I chose for Indonesia. Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s The Girl from the Coast, translated by Willem Samuels, arrived in the mail Friday morning, and I was finished with it by … Continue reading The Booktrekker: Indonesia
