Excerpts directly from his latest book, “The Inevitable”:
A book creating by people’s stories
This book was creating through a “telling room” where youth, especially immigrants could share their stories in a safe space and learn through reflection. Contact the Telling Room in Maine to buy a copy:
On Writing Systems
What are the underlying mechanisms behind books? The system of writing. Writing systems ultimately decide, to some degree, what can be expressed. Check out this book for an amazing survey of the world’s writing systems. You’ll also find actual keys which you can use to translate ancient texts and a chapter on decryption:
Frank Kafka: On Books
“A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.” -Letter to Oskar Pollak, 27, Jan. 1904.
Jane Austin: On Words
Quotes from “Tuesdays With Morrie”
Cookbooks as memory sponges
Shakespeare Sonnet in Binary
The author of this artwork at the Emory archives wrote out 3 Shakespeare sonnets in English and in binary computer code: 
Frederick Douglas on Reading as Source of Freedom
Best book titles ever?
Dear Readers, some say that the title, “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius” by Dave Eggers was even better than the book itself. What are your favorite titles. Please submit them to: abookaboutbooks@gmail.com/. The best entries will be given a small prize and shared with the community.
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