~openculture | Bookmarks (15)
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RIP Paul Auster: Hear the Master of the Postmodern Page-Turner Discuss How He Became a Writer
In the Louisiana Channel interview clip from 2017 above, the late Paul Auster tells the story...
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Behold The Drawings of Franz Kafka (1907–1917)
Runner 1907–1908 UK-born, Chicago-based artist Philip Hartigan has posted a brief video piece about Franz Kafka’s drawings. Kafka,...
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Hear Flannery O’Connor Read “A Good Man is Hard to Find” (1959)
Flannery O’Connor was a Southern writer who, as Joyce Carol Oates once said, had less in...
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How the Year 2440 Was Imagined in a 1771 French Sci-Fi Novel
Many Americans might think of Rip Van Winkle as the first man to nod off and...
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Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Beautiful Digital Edition of the Poet’s Pressed Plants & Flowers Is Now Online
So many writers have been gardeners and have written about gardens that it might be easier...
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Ernest Hemingway’s Advice to Aspiring, Young Writers (1935)
Here in the twenty-twenties, a hopeful young novelist might choose to enroll in one of a...
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Gertrude Stein Gets a Snarky Rejection Letter from a Publisher (1912)
Gertrude Stein considered herself an experimental writer and wrote what The Poetry Foundation calls “dense poems...
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3,000 Illustrations of Shakespeare’s Complete Works from Victorian England, Presented in a Digital Archive
“We can say of Shakespeare,” wrote T.S. Eliot—in what may sound like the most backhanded of...
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When François Truffaut Made a Film Adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
The protagonist of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is a “fireman” tasked with incinerating what few books...
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Behold Soviet Animations of Ray Bradbury Stories
Sergei Bondarchuk directed an 8‑hour film adaptation of War and Peace (1966–67), which ended up winning...
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Frank Herbert Explains the Origins of Dune (1969)
Dune: Part Two has been playing in theaters for less than a week, but that’s more...
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How Jane Austen Changed Fiction Forever
Though Jane Austen hasn’t published a novel since 1817 — with her death that same year...
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Watch a 1915 Film Adaptation of Alice in Wonderland Enhanced in 4K, with Costumes Based on Briginal Illustrations by Sir John Tenniel
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland predates the invention of cinema by a couple of decades. Nevertheless, much...
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The Russian Animators Who Have Spent 40 Years Animating Gogol’s “The Overcoat”
“Steady Pushkin, matter-of-fact Tolstoy, restrained Chekhov have all had their moments of irrational insight which simultaneously...
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Read Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World: The First Sci-Fi Novel Written By a Woman (1666)
For a variety of reasons, science fiction has long been regarded as a mostly male-oriented realm...