The smell of ocean never gets old …
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This excellent Twitter (X) thread about a labyrinthine magical bookstore in Syracuse, NY
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Jack Kerouac’s Hand-Drawn Cover for On the Road (1952)
In 1950, when Jack Kerouac released his first novel, The Town and the City, he was less than impressed by the book cover produced by his publisher, Harcourt Brace… So, in 1952, when he began shopping his second novel, the great beat classic On the Road, Kerouac went ahead and designed his own cover. He sent it to a potential publisher A.A. Wyn, with a little note typed at the very top:
Dear Mr. Wyn:
I submit this as my idea of an appealing commercial cover expressive of the book. The cover for “The Town and the City” was as dull as the title and the photo backflap. Wilbur Pippin’s photo of me is the perfect On the Road one … it will look like the face of the figure below.
J.K.
Wyn turned down the novel, and it wouldn’t get published until 1957. It would, however, become a bestseller and be published with many different covers through the years. They’re all on display here.
Full article found on Open Culture
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You know how we who aren't rich like to make fun of the dumb ways rich people spend their money? One of the easiest ways to do that is to check out real estate offerings of expensive homes, and we've done that a lot at Neatorama and at Homes and Hues. It's what makes McMansion Hellsuch a fun site, because money doesn't automatically bestow good taste. Even when an expensive home is perfectly built and appointed, it strikes us as wastefully large and too difficult to care for. Conspicuous consumption is a serious affair, but it also makes you look weird. But there are often ridiculous quirks in these properties that make us feel better about not having the money to embarrass ourselves like that. Ryan George manages to put all our thoughts on such real estate excess into words and shows us pictures of the weird homes designed to suck up money from those who have way too much to care.
