Getting a free gift when you purchase a new book is always fun, but how would you react if that gift was some pot? BlazeMichigan is a new Ann Arbor based book-selling company that gives patrons a small portion of marijuana with every book bundle purchase. You can purchase a $65 bundle that includes two used books and four free “edible” gifts or a $400 bundle with twenty-four books and fifty-six gifts. The business was started in January by Stephanie Swearengin and Chris Rau. As of today, their website has reported over 759 books have been purchased and counting. Marijuana …
If a book doesn’t contain any words, is it really a book? That’s the question a lot of people have been asking after the inclusion of a very curious piece of “literature” at the University of Michigan library. Jamie Lausch Vander Broek, the art and design librarian for the university, acquired a book titled 20 Slices last year. It is a small book containing twenty Kraft cheese slices sandwiched together. And that’s it. That’s the whole book. Image Via Saveur The inclusion of the cheese book has garnered a divided response from people at the University. Nevertheless, it has …
Making history wasn’t on Dorothy Gilliam’s mind when she started working at The Washington Post. Most days, she was just worried about making it into the office. “I would sometimes experience panic attacks when I was walking to work,” she writes, “fearing what was happening at the office, what I would encounter there, who would not speak to me.” In Gilliam’s book Trailblazer, she recounts her time working for the famous newspaper. Her battle to find a good story were happening simultaneously with her daily battles against racism and sexism. Image Via Amazon Being the lone black woman …
Any book lover can relate to having to return an overdue library book. But one woman might have missed her deadline by a bit much. Mora Gregg, a retired librarian from Toronto, discovered an old copy of the 1929 novel The Postman hidden within the bookshelf of her apartment while she was cleaning one day. When she looked inside, she discovered that she had checked it out in 1946 when she was just a toddler. It was a book that Gregg read her whole childhood, one that she and her family took with her when they moved from to Canada. …
One of the most celebrated dystopian novels ever written is finally coming to the small screen. After several years of development on the SyFy network, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World just got a ten episode straight-to-series order from its sister network, USA. Image Via Wikipedia Published in 1932, the novel takes place in a utopian society that has achieved peace thanks to genetic engineering and behavioral conditioning while giving each citizen government sanctioned drugs and encouraging promiscuity to keep people happy. One man who feels disconnected with his place in this society brings in an outsider. A clash of …
