Joseph Patrick Pascale
Barnes & 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...
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Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Dec 18, 2018
- 3 min
Amazon, Physical Bookstore?
I imagine everyone in this bookstore casting knowing glances at one another, not losing sight of the irony that the online bookstore...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Sep 1, 2018
- 5 min
Montclair Literary Tour
With 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 Pascale
- Jul 24, 2018
- 11 min
Colorado 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...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Jul 3, 2018
- 4 min
The Great Dinkytown Bookstore Tour
In July 2016, we stayed in the dorms at the University of Minnesota for a journalism conference. It's a beautiful campus in Minneapolis...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Jun 30, 2018
- 2 min
Cryptomnesia 2.0
Welcome 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 Pascale
- Nov 26, 2017
- 2 min
Handwritten Book Journal on Nepali Lokta Paper
This 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...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Oct 16, 2017
- 5 min
Maxine 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...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Oct 9, 2017
- 5 min
They’re Only Pretending to Use Urinals: Comic Literary Fiction
Witold Gombrowicz: Trans-Atlantyk Witold Gombrowicz’s novels are chock full of absurdity, so perhaps it’s natural that we find some...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Oct 2, 2017
- 3 min
Octavia Butler: Physical Writing Process
Inspiring Oneself Octavia Butler's groundbreaking writing continues to captivate readers as they rethink humanity and society through the...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Sep 25, 2017
- 7 min
Dalton 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...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Sep 18, 2017
- 4 min
Brier Rose Books in Teaneck, NJ - My Favorite Bookstore
This 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 Pascale
- Sep 11, 2017
- 3 min
There 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...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Sep 4, 2017
- 5 min
Jack Kerouac's Original On the Road Scroll
The American Writers' Museum's First Exhibit Features the legendary scroll manuscript of Kerouac's classic American novel. I first read...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Aug 28, 2017
- 6 min
George 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,...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Aug 20, 2017
- 7 min
The American Writers Museum
Literary 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 Pascale
- Aug 13, 2017
- 11 min
The Great Seattle Literary & Bookstore Tour
Seattle 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 Pascale
- Jan 20, 2017
- 6 min
DYSTOPIA
I 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...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Mar 30, 2016
- 2 min
New York City Bookstore Tour
A 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 Pascale
- Mar 2, 2016
- 6 min
Gogol’s Impossibilities of Imagination
Some reflections on magical realism via Nikolai Gogol It would be easy to brush aside the absurd impossibilities of Nikolai Gogol’s “The...
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