Thursday, September 4, 2025

'a velocity of being'

got my hands on the book finally...pick up any page at random or sequentially, anything works...some pages lead you to other interesting books. recommend to all book-loving individuals.

//this is a collection of original letters to the children of today and tomorrow about why we read and what books do for the human spirit, composed by 121 of the most interesting and inspiring humans in our world: jane goodall, yo-yo ma, jacqueline woodson, ursula k. le guin, mary oliver, neil gaiman, amanda palmer, rebecca solnit, elizabeth gilbert, shonda rhimes, alain de botton, james gleick, anne lamott, diane ackerman, judy blume, eve ensler, david byrne, sylvia earle, richard branson, daniel handler, marina abramović, regina spektor, elizabeth alexander, adam gopnik, debbie millman, dani shapiro, tim ferriss, ann patchett, a 98-year-old holocaust survivor, italy’s first woman in space, and many more immensely accomplished and largehearted artists, writers, scientists, philosophers, entrepreneurs, musicians, and adventurers whose character has been shaped by a life of reading. accompanying each letter is an original illustration by a prominent artist in response to the text. // 

courtesy themarginalian.org