Joseph Patrick PascaleJan 5, 20194 minBarnes & Noble Rebooted Barnes & Noble is an iconic bookstore to many of us, with the dark wood paneling, beige wallpaper adorned with vine patterns, deep green ...
Joseph Patrick PascaleDec 18, 20183 minAmazon, Physical Bookstore?I imagine everyone in this bookstore casting knowing glances at one another, not losing sight of the irony that the online bookstore peop...
Joseph Patrick PascaleSep 1, 20185 minMontclair Literary TourWith the debut reading of my novel taking place in Montclair, NJ, I found myself exploring the town as I put some posters up (I'll share ...
Joseph Patrick PascaleJul 24, 201811 minColorado Bookstores & Other Madness"'Oh, these Denver doldrums!' yelled Carlo to the sky." - Jack Kerouac, On the Road Now wasn't the time for you to be traversing unknown w...
Joseph Patrick PascaleJul 3, 20184 minThe Great Dinkytown Bookstore TourIn July 2016, we stayed in the dorms at the University of Minnesota for a journalism conference. It's a beautiful campus in Minneapolis n...
Joseph Patrick PascaleJun 30, 20182 minCryptomnesia 2.0Welcome to the update to my blog! I've upgraded my website and connected my blog so that everything would be in one convenient location. ...
Joseph Patrick PascaleNov 26, 20172 minHandwritten Book Journal on Nepali Lokta PaperThis is a book journal I started back in 2009. I couldn't pass on the unique, natural look and feel of the lokta Paper from Nepal. I thou...
Joseph Patrick PascaleOct 16, 20175 minMaxine Hong Kingston: Physical Writing Process"Instead of a woman warrior with a sword, I could create one with a pen who would be just as dramatic." - Maxine Hong Kingston From Drawi...
Joseph Patrick PascaleOct 9, 20175 minThey’re Only Pretending to Use Urinals: Comic Literary FictionWitold Gombrowicz: Trans-Atlantyk Witold Gombrowicz’s novels are chock full of absurdity, so perhaps it’s natural that we find some hilar...
Joseph Patrick PascaleOct 2, 20173 minOctavia Butler: Physical Writing ProcessInspiring Oneself Octavia Butler's groundbreaking writing continues to captivate readers as they rethink humanity and society through the...
Joseph Patrick PascaleSep 25, 20177 minDalton Trumbo: Physical Writing Process Writing in the Bathtub & the Duality of Screenwriter-Novelist Dalton Trumbo liked to write while he was in the bathtub. I wouldn’t say th...
Joseph Patrick PascaleSep 18, 20174 minBrier Rose Books in Teaneck, NJ - My Favorite BookstoreThis blog makes it clear that I'm really into bookstores, and I've been to bookstores throughout North America and even parts of Europe. ...
Joseph Patrick PascaleSep 11, 20173 minThere Are No Cups in Kafka’s Amerika“Sword? One supposes a mistake, since Kafka never saw the monument. Yet it grows increasingly clear that Karl has landed in a nightmaris...
Joseph Patrick PascaleSep 4, 20175 minJack Kerouac's Original On the Road ScrollThe American Writers' Museum's First Exhibit Features the legendary scroll manuscript of Kerouac's classic American novel. I first read O...
Joseph Patrick PascaleAug 28, 20176 minGeorge R. R. Martin: Writer's Block"My dream chronology is that the books finish first, and I do have a considerable lead over them," George R. R. Martin said in 2013, acco...
Joseph Patrick PascaleAug 20, 20177 minThe American Writers MuseumLiterary Tour of Chicago "The first museum of its kind in the nation!" From what I've read about the origins of the new American Writers ...
Joseph Patrick PascaleAug 13, 201711 minThe Great Seattle Literary & Bookstore TourSeattle is my kind of town—you can't go two blocks without stumbling upon a cool café or bookstore. And sometimes you think you found a ...
Joseph Patrick PascaleJan 20, 20176 minDYSTOPIAI originally posted this on Twitter, but if you weren't following along live, I thought it'd be easier to read it all listed out from beg...
Joseph Patrick PascaleMar 30, 20162 minNew York City Bookstore TourA mysterious scroll arrived one St. Patrick's Day. I unfurled it to see this: My wife was taking me on The Great New York City Bookstore...
Joseph Patrick PascaleMar 2, 20166 minGogol’s Impossibilities of ImaginationSome reflections on magical realism via Nikolai Gogol It would be easy to brush aside the absurd impossibilities of Nikolai Gogol’s “The ...