MARIA POPOVA / CLAUDIA ZOE BEDRICK / CLAUDIA BEDRICK / REMNICK, DAVID
u003cpu003eIn 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.u003c/pu003e u003cpu003eAmong 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.u003c/pu003e u003cpu003eThis 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.u003c/pu003e Edited and introduced byu003cbru003e u003cbu003eMaria Popovau003c/bu003e, who has been writing since 2006 about what she reads on Brainu003cbru003e Pickings (brainpickings.org), which is now included in the Library of Congress archiveu003cbru003e of culturally valuable materials; Edited byu003cbu003eClaudia Bedricku003c/bu003e, publisher, editorialu003cbru003e and art director of Enchanted Lion Books.
