Once upon a time, there were people who enjoyed quoting from classic literary texts, and people who enjoyed getting tattoos, and rarely the twain did meet. But tattoos have gone mainstream ...

While tattoos inspired by literature are a more recent trend — a 2009 Forbes article calls them "a paradox of the digital age" — literature has been inspired by tattoos for ages. Consider ...

Tattoos were once for sailors and wayfarers — exotic souvenirs of adventure and romance. Now, they’re mainstream. Walk into any college gym - any gym, anywhere - and you know. But literary t ...

In case you haven't noticed, pop culture is riding a wave of lit tattoos, and one Miami-born author has compiled the best of the best in The Word Made Flesh: Literary Tattoos from Bookworms ...

Apoet with a laptop walks into a bar. He orders a beer and begins scrolling Web sites of "literary tattoos." He sees a man's back entirely inscribed with the first page of "Fight Club." ...

Online retailer Prezzybox has released two packs of temporary tattoos that are inspired by two literary greats: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Alice In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

Tattoos may be associated in the public mind with bikers and football hooligans, but the growing popularity of more literary designs is finding an outlet on the internet. Have your say ...

Bookish: In your story "The New Veterans," a masseuse working with traumatized soldiers accesses a soldier's pain through the vibrant tattoo on his back. If you got a literary tattoo, what would ...

For some readers, this connection is so profound that they carry it permanently through literary tattoos – a single line, a symbol, or a meaningful word – it’s a reader’s enduring love for ...