If you don’t believe an author can create a city out of his own words,  you haven’t read Charles Dickens on London or Baudelaire on Paris.  No author has really done that for Dallas yet. But you can see that idea of “literature shaping our urban experience” made a little more tangible here: To celebrate its 25th anniversary, Fourth Estate publishers created a marvelous stop-animation video of our lives in print, the literary air we all breathe whether we know it or not.

This Is Where We Live from 4th Estate on Vimeo.

Borrowed from the Book Bench.