A Velocity of Being

Letters to a Young Reader

Edited by Maria Popova & Claudia Bedrick
Enchanted Lion Books, 2018

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Description

In these pages, some of today's most wonderful culture-makers--writers, artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, and philosophers--reflect on the joys of reading, how books broaden and deepen human experience, and the ways in which the written word has formed their own character. On the page facing each letter, an illustration by a celebrated illustrator or graphic artist presents that artist's visual response.

Among the diverse contributions are letters from Jane Goodall, Neil Gaiman, Jerome Bruner, Shonda Rhimes, Ursula K. Le Guin, Yo-Yo Ma, Judy Blume, Lena Dunham, Elizabeth Gilbert, and Jacqueline Woodson, as well as a ninety-eight-year-old Holocaust survivor, a pioneering oceanographer, and Italy's first woman in space. Some of the illustrators, cartoonists, and graphic designers involved are Marianne Dubuc, Sean Qualls, Oliver Jeffers, Maira Kalman, Mo Willems, Isabelle Arsenault, Chris Ware, Liniers, Shaun Tan, Tomi Ungerer, and Art Spiegelman.

This project is woven entirely of goodwill, generosity of spirit, and a shared love of books. Everyone involved has donated their time, and all profits will go to the New York Public Library systems. Edited and introduced by Maria Popova, who has been writing since 2006 about what she reads on Brain Pickings (brainpickings.org), which is now included in the Library of Congress archive of culturally valuable materials; Edited by Claudia Bedrick, publisher, editorial and art director of Enchanted Lion Books.

Contributers

Jacqueline Woodson, Lara Hawthorne, Laura Brown-Lavoie Ping Zhu, Alexandra Horowitz, Frank Viva, Neil Gaiman, Sophie Blackall, Alain De Botton, Mouni Feddag, Diane Ackerman, Olivier Tallec, Jane Goodall, Christian Robinson, David Byrne, Daniel Salmieri, Jad Abumrad, Joohee Yoon, Martha Nussbaum, Michela Buttignol, Rebecca Solnit, Liniers, Elizabeth Gilbert, Marianne Dubuc, David Whyte, Felicita Sala, Claudia Guadalupe Martinez, Ashleigh Corrin, Alexander Chee, Taeeun Yoo, Amanda Palmer, Øyvind Torseter, Rose Styron, Cindy Derby, Dani Shapiro, Yara Kono, Emily Levine, Kristin Roskifte, Lucianne Walkowicz, Violeta Lopiz, Mariahadessa Ekere, Tallie Esme Shapiro, Helen Fagin, Ingrid Godon, Debbie Millman, Dasha Tolstikova, Shonda Rhimes, Matthew Forsythe, Thomas Page Mcbee, Mandana Sadat, Alan Lightman, Josh Cochran, Amanda Stern, Carson Ellis, Roz Chast, Ruth Ann Harnisch, Maisie Paradise Shearring, Annalee Newitz, Chloe Bonfield, Judy Blume, Decur, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Valerio Vidali, Cory Doctorow, You Jung Byun, Aracelis Girmay, Ariana Fields, Isabel Minhós Martins, Christopher Silas Neal, Sarah Kay, Lisa D'andrea, Seth Godin, Katrin Stangl, Ariel Schrag, Mary Oliver, Marc Johns, Naomi Wolf, Hyewon Yum, Susan Orlean, Wendy Macnaughton, Bruce Handy Albertine, Andrew Solomon Catarina Sobral, Richard Branson, William Grill, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Anne Slaughter, Laurel Braitman, Cecilia Ruiz, Mohammed Fairouz, Nahid Kazemi, Matthew Burgess, Jenni Desmond, Aaron Koblin, Tallulah Fontaine, Sylvia Earle, Sophie Gilmore, Felicia Day, Emily Hughes, Jerome Bruner, Mo Willems, Lena Dunham, Tim Miller, Terry Teachout, Kenard Pak, Mara Faye Lethem, Ofra Amit, Parker Palmer, Hadley Hooper, Eve Ensler, Zoey Abbott, Tim Ferriss, Benjamin Chaud, Ev Williams, Brian Floca, Maud Newton, Peter Brown, Steven Pinker, Marine Rivoal, David L. Ulin, Gemma Correll, Natascha Mcelhone, Bernardo P. Carvalho, Lise Solomon, Zachariah Ohora, Dean Wareham, Benoît Delhomme, Mariska Hargitay, Samantha Cotterill, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Serge Bloch, Kevin Kelly, Andrea Tsurumi, Courtney E. Martin Isol, David Delgado, The Brothers Hilts, Chris Anderson, Brian Rea, Leonard S. Marcus, Julia Rothman, Thao Ngyuen, Sean G. Qualls, Tavi Gevinson, Vittoria Facchini, William Powers, Christoph Niemann, Chris Ware, Paul Holdengräber, Maira Kalman, Liz Danzico, Ohara Hale, Samantha Cristoforetti, John Parra, Holland Taylor, Oliver Jeffers, Brandon Stanton, Sara Varon, Maria Bustillos, Sergio Ruzzier, Rebecca Mead, Sonia Sánchez, Krista Tippett, Judith Clay, Emily Spivack, Liz Starin, Regina Spektor, Benji Davies, Marina Abramović, Lia Halloran, Ellen Handler Spitz, Sandra Jarvera, Sarah Lewis, Julie Paschkis, Dona Ann Mcadams, Marc Drumwright, Baba Brinkman, Lizi Boyd, Paola Antonelli, Kris Di Giacomo, Daniel Handler, Lisa Brown, Shirley Manson, Rumisu, J.D. McClatchy, Chip Kidd, Steven Heller, Pascal Blanchet, Morley Kamen, Miguel Pang Ly, Françoise Moulley, Art Spiegelman, Jon Scieszka, Henrik Drescher, Isabel Quintero, Sabina Hahn, Tomi Ungerer, Pamela Paul, Alessandro Sanna, Meehan Crist, Jon Klassen, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, Giselle Potter, Dawn Landes, Elise Hurst, Caroline Paul, Grant Snider, Lisa Randall, Luke Ramsey, John Maeda, Katie Harnett, Jacqueline Novogratz, Isabelle Arsenault, Chris Sacca, Carla Torres, Tom De Blasis, Shaun Tan, Ursula K. Le Guin, Charles Vess, Yo-Yo Ma, Narges Mohammadi, Ann Patchett, Vladimir Radunsky, Ann Martin, Robin Rosenthal, Kaisa Leka, Christoffer Leka, James Gleick, Benoit Tardif, Adam Gopnik, Beatrice Alemagna, Janna Levin, The Fan Brothers, Anne Lamott, and Andrea Dezsö.

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