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Library Slide By Moon Hoon
Architect Moon Hoon recently designed the Panorama House (scroll down), in Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea. One of the most unique features incorporated into the home is a wooden slide built directly into a library which also functions as a stair-stepped home theater seating area.
As they get ready to announce the Pulitzers for this year, over at The Atlantic Wire our beloved book critic Maureen Corrigan reflects on the upheaval over last year’s awards. She was one of the jurors for the 2012 fiction prize along with the novelist Michael Cunningham and editor Susan Larson. They passed on their recommendations to the Pulitzer board which has final say and we as shocked as the rest of us when it was announced there would be no prize awarded that year for fiction.
“We Need A Fiction Pulitzer In 2013”:
Corrigan told me, “It was a terrible day last year. I think my fellow judges and I are cautiously optimistic that the board will complete its job this year; otherwise we probably all wish the Pulitzer anniversary speeds by as quickly and painlessly as possible. It’s so crucial that extraordinary writing be recognized and brought to the attention of a wider audience and prizes like the Pulitzer can do that.”
There were a couple of high points to hang onto, though. As much as she still feels disappointed about the failure to choose a winner, the reading experience itself was wonderful, Corrigan explained, the sort of thing she’d yearned for in grad school, “like being in the most intense and tiniest book club,” she said. “We did clash and argue, but God, we took it seriously. That’s the part that really made me angry: We heard when everyone else did that there would be no prize, and that there would be no explanation. I think if you don’t give out the prize, you have to give a reason.”
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Can you name a few?
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1949 Bookmobile
I would just like to say a big thank you to Laura West (of Supabinda) for sending me this gorgeous little DIY Bookbinding Kit, which I enjoyed assembling earlier today. The introductory kit provides beginners with basic binding tools and instructions, which are then cleverly bound as a nifty little keepsake. I love the embossed cover!
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