ignore the code: Bookfeed.io
Such an elegant idea!
Bookfeed.io is a simple tool that allows you to specify a list of authors, and generates an RSS feed with each author’s most recently released book.
Small pieces, loosely joined.
Tags: authors
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Friday, February 19th, 2021
Friday, November 13th, 2020
An Ocean of Books
What you see is the big map of a sea of literature, one where each island represents a single author, and each city represents a book. The map represents a selection of 113 008 authors and 145 162 books.
This is a poetic experiment where we hope you will get lost for a while.
Tuesday, March 24th, 2020
Quarantine Book Club
Join your favorite authors on Zoom where you can have spirited discussions from the privacy of our own quarantined space!
A great initiative from the folks at Mule Design. As well as chatting to talented authors, you can also chat to me: this Thursday at 4pm UTC I’ll be discussing Resilient Web Design.
Tuesday, August 29th, 2017
The Philip K Dick book I love most… | Books | The Guardian
Three authors pick their favourite book by Philip K Dick:
- Nicola Barker: Puttering About in a Small Land
- Michael Moorcock: Time Out of Joint
- Adam Roberts: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Tuesday, April 5th, 2016
Future Simple Steps - where to find your favourite ex-Five Simple Steps authors and their books
Now that Five Simple Steps has closed down, the individual authors are in charge of distributing their own books. This site links to all of those books.
Sunday, May 10th, 2009
Hamish Hamilton: Five Dials
A beautiful PDF literary magazine, designed to be printed out and read away from the computer. I'd still love to see an HTML version.
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
Authors On Tour — Live!
Okay, so the name of the site sounds a bit like the literature equivalent of Girls Gone Wild but why haven’t I come across this site before?
It’s a veritable huffduffing bonanza, with talks from Neal Stephenson, David Sedaris, Simon Winchester, Isabel Allende, Terry Pratchet, John Hodgman, Neil Gaiman, Barack Obama and …um… Les Claypool.
All of them are licensed under Creative Commons attribution, non- commercial, no derivatives.
Sunday, March 16th, 2008
We Tell Stories
Aleks pointed me to this sort-of ARG involving authors in London. Could be good fun.