Jūrmala is a sea resort city in Latvia, breathing under pine umbrellas on a stretch of land between river Lielupe and the Baltic Sea. In 2018 I have opened Sea Library here in Jūrmala. Come and look!
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
My interview with British writer Stephen Rutt. His debut book “The Seafarers: A Journey Among Birds” is available in the Sea Library.
There's something about flood, something mythic and disturbing, that gets to the heart of our uncertainty about our place on the earth at all.
Do visionaries – artists, writers, musicians, – have a responsibility to give us new languages and tools to actually do something about our deteriorating world? I asked. Artists David Bramwell, Justin Brice Guariglia, Olafur Eliasson, Antony Gormley and Jonathan Meese, writers Jay Griffiths, Caspar Henderson, Dahr Jamail and Barry Lopez, poet Craig Santos Perez, philosopher Graham Harman, and scientist Peter Wadhams wrote me back.
Summer reading in the Sea Library has been sorted out. Here are books coming out in June, July and August. Outstanding octet!
