February 2011
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“At least half of your mind is always thinking, I’ll be leaving; this won’t last....”
– Anne Carson, in her interview with the Paris Review.
Psst
We’re giving away a pair of tickets to the Story Prize ceremony on Wednesday at the New School—with Anthony Doerr, Yiyun Li, and Suzanne Rivecca. Shoot us an ask if you’re interested in entering.
David Foster Wallace: “Backbone” : The New Yorker →
irunfrombears:
An excerpt of The Pale King has been posted over at The New Yorker.
10 Greatest Essays Ever →
A whole slew of greats—Eula Biss! Ander Monson! Luc Sante! Lawrence Weschler!—pick their 10 favorite essays.
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Anonymous asked: What is the absolute max number of pages possible to print in a P-O-D title on the Espresso machine? I ask because I expect by the time my blog SUMMER OF MEGADETH reaches one year we will have cracked 20,000 posts and I am just trying to figure out if I will have to split the PDF that I submit for the unabridged SUMMER OF MEGADETH: YEAR 1 book into multiple documents or if it is possible to print...
endlessmatt asked: I saw your Internation Day of Bookshop post, and would like to share our bookstore's tumblr with you. We just started it a few weeks ago, but plan to be very active with cool items that come in the store and events we have planned.
Great blog!
-Matt
Great blog!
-Matt
Anonymous asked: Hi, I would like to thank you for loving Moby Dick and for always posting important (i.e. any) MD-related-type-stuff.
Happy International Day of Bookshop Tumblr...
housingworksbookstore:
February 28th is The International Day of Bookshop Tumblr Celebration! I just declared this essential worldwide holiday for two basic reasons:
1) Bookshop tumblrs are objectively The Best.
2) Sam of McNally Jackson fame and I have the same birthday.
Please celebrate this reverent day of joy by:
1) Reading a bookshop tumblr.
2) Hugging a bookshop tumblr proprietor.
3)...
grokeverything asked: Which edition is this? http://thisisnthappiness.com/post/3107263859/we-love-typography I will buy it from your store if you have it.
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“Dubus slows again, then stops. He points past me, out the shotgun window....”
– From this powerful profile of Andre Dubus III, which happens to be great even though it’s by my sister.
gumplr asked: Well, in fact, that was NOT the link I meant to send. This was. But look at that crazy cash cat! http://gumplr.tumblr.com/post/3484879336/thus-he-was-able-to-design-the-sun-to-be-if-not-a
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gumplr asked: I'm reading Mark Helprin's Winter's Tale and hit a passage on my commute this morning that made me laugh out loud. The book is a love letter to New York, sustained over 700+ pages, that's most impressive in its communication of the city's minor sort of quirks. Details that we all notice on the daily with a "Hmmph" then forget about seconds later. It's an...
meganlives asked: Your mention of Between the Acts (my favorite Woolf novel) is only my latest reason to love shopping at McNally Jackson. Also, Revolutionary Road (Yates) might fit the anon's requirements. Y'all are the best!
Anonymous asked: What are your favorite out of print novels? I feel perhaps you addressed this already/recently, but I can't find where on this tumblr machine it might be. If your answer is Boston Adventure by Jean Stafford, we should get married. But seriously, I need some recommendations.
Perhaps related question: I love quiet domestic fiction that focuses very tightly on a specific few days or an...
Perhaps related question: I love quiet domestic fiction that focuses very tightly on a specific few days or an...
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thenotes:
Despite his extremely ill-proportioned physique, Swinburne dreamt from early youth, and particularly after reading newspaper accounts of the charge at Balaclava, of joining a cavalry regiment and losing his life as a beau sabreur in some equally senseless battle. Even when he was a student at Oxford, this vision outshone any other conception he might have of his own future; and only...
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That Zadie Smith Franz Kafka musical post was via bookfawn, which I forgot to mention, and the Smith quote was from 2004. She should be done by now, right? I hope it’s called Franz!
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“It’s not exactly a cheery, high-kicking affair. It’ll need some good...”
– That’s Zadie Smith, on the musical she’s writing about Franz Kafka. Go ahead. Read that twice.
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Anonymous asked: What is the format that I will need to submit my blog in if I want to have it printed and bound on the Espresso machine? My blog is summerofmegadeth.tumblr.com and I would like to have the entire first year made into a book. Thanks!
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“It is February. Ice is general. One notices different degrees of ice.”
– Anne Carson, from “Some Afternoons She Does Not Pick Up the Phone,” a poem in Decreation.
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“Cole has made his novel as close to a diary as a novel can get, with room for...”
– That’s from James Wood’s review of Teju Cole’s Open City in the New Yorker—-Cole will be here tonight, talking to Vanity Fair’s Andy Tepper about the book.
Till I hold that steel
carpentrix:
Fact-bit from Dubus III’s Townie:
The opening line of one of Andre Dubus’s strongest, most violent, most moving stories, “The Pretty Girl,” came from a bumper sticker his son Andre Dubus III saw at the gym.
“I don’t know how I feel till I hold that steel.”
Huh. Now we know.
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“I hate cheats. They cut the line and snatch the bargain. They sweet-talk the...”
– Sam Lipsyte, on the Times’ Op-Ed page, writing about cheating and a new edition of Monopoly.
Hey, Whatcha Readin'?
fridayreads:
Yep, it’s Friday again! Reblog this post with a line about what you’re reading this week to join FridayReads and be entered to win wonderful books.
Having just finished D.H. Lawrence’s Studies Classics in American Literature, I’m now reading The Late American Novel, that anthology of writers on the present/future of the novel. It’s like time travel, those two...
Books that rocked your world when you were 16 that... →
carpentrix:
The Fountainhead, Tom Wolfe, The Alchemist, Salinger, and more.
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“A polished, thought-provoking, and original work of history that possesses all...”
– That’s Simon Van Booy on Deborah Lutz’s Pleasure Bound, our event tonight. Pretty much whatever Simon says (no pun, or something?), we do. The book is about Victorian sex rebels.
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