JENNIFER PLATT | If you loved it the first time around, chase that feeling again Whether you reread for comfort or any other reason, ‘there’s no friend as loyal as a book’ 14 April 2021 - 20:03
We read books over and over for a number of reasons. This past year, I mostly reread for comfort. It was about being in my book bubble reliving a good part of my past and not being in today’s messy world, or wrapping myself up in a warm childhood memory or just hanging out with a much-loved character and going to a favourite setting. It’s no longer Hogwarts. Thanks, JK.
Photo: Jesse Kumin/Permission of Hock Wah Yeo
With GameStop’s stock exploding and shrinking on a weekly basis, it’s easy to forget that until recently, it was an open question whether the next-gen of gaming consoles were going to come with an optical drive at all. Physical games managed to avoid the grim reaper, for now, but little care is put into their packaging these days. A whole generation missed out on a time when you could walk into a Babbages and an encyclopedia-sized PC game box practically leapt into your hands.
During the video game industry’s adolescence, a visit to the shelves of the computer shop meant finding shareware games in ziplock bags beside boxes adorned in the state-of-the-art of graphic design of the time. But some designers went further and took the opportunity to turn those standard cardboard boxes into eye-catching sculptural objects. One of the unsung heroes of the PC box is the designer Hock Wah Yeo.
Book World: Friends knew not to turn their backs on Sybille Bedford. History should, too.
Michael Dirda, The Washington Post
Feb. 18, 2021
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By Selina Hastings
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Creative people are frequently monsters. As Bernard Shaw provocatively declared, the true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art. The novelist and journalist Sybille Bedford (1911-2006), the subject of Selina Hastings s gossipy new biography, is a case in point: Bedford passed most of her 94 years sponging off friends, relations and many lovers, enjoying a life of ease and luxury through their sometimes incomprehensible generosity.
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