McNally Jackson Bookmongers

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March 2011

43 posts

Why is there no Norton Anthology of Paperwork? →

Today in passive aggressive faxes

MOST Doctors agree… Clean Air FREE of Virus & Bacteria is beneficial to everyone! I’m just Curious How Long you are going to live with Contaminated Disease Infested AIR

Translator for a Day →

Translator Susan Bernofsky is running a one-night workshop on translation at McNally J on 4/26. Click through for details.

Anonymous asked: hi! I asked you about your out of print favorites when what i ought to have asked you is: what relatively unknown/unread/obscure books do you LOVE. like, your favorite book that no one else has ever heard of. sorry, i'll stop asking annoying open ended questions after this.

moonturnips asked: Short stories! I purchased Love Begins in Winter by Simon Van Booy a few years ago and have since bought copies for four other people...can you recommend a new great short story writer?

To walk into a modern-day bookstore...

wwnorton: An excerpt from Nicole Krauss’s article on bookstores in The New Republic: To walk into a modern-day bookstore is a little bit like studying a single photograph out of the infinite number of photographs that cold be taken of the world: It offers the reader a frame. Within that frame, she can decide what she likes and doesn’t like, what is for her and not for her. She can browse,...

A Reader Asks for a Literature in Translation... →

killingdenouement asked: what, please, is an excellent book about visapocalypse(s)?

“Inevitable to life is death and not inevitable to death is life”

– Jamaca Kincaid, quoted in the introduction to The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death. See it live tonight at 7 pm. (via.)

Somewhere in San Jose, circa 1996

adultliving: “Reading The Tiger’s Wife, I began to consider the things that attracted me to books when I myself was a young-adult (i.e., late elementary school) reader. Basically, I was a nerdy lowbrow: I was in it for sex, humor and death. If a book wasn’t going to give me the scoop on puberty or throw me some puns, I wanted it to scare me in a way that felt serious and adult-perhaps with the...

largehearted boy: Eileen Myles' Inferno playlist →

rocketbooks asked: We're a brand new publishing co. and plan to be a publisher of the future ...
Our first book 'One More Round - The Poetry of Kevin Rock' is being launched May. We're looking for an independent NYC Bookstore for a Launch event .... and possibly sole RocketBooks seller in NYC ....
Interested?
Ciao, Malcolm (Director, RocketBooks Marketing)

Our Novels, Ourselves

Knowing that a book exists is one thing, being made to recognize its existence by someone else another. It is the fact of Lord Mark’s showing her the portrait, and not the portrait itself, that so topples Milly: “It was perhaps as a good a moment as she should have with any one, or have in any connexion whatever.”A personal recommendation is not the same as one cast out to anonymous strangers on...

Writing Sheds of the Rich and Famous →

Or, rooms I wish were my own.

annawiener asked: Dear Sam,

What book(s) might you suggest for a gentleman of a certain age (dad age) whose interests learn toward the Krakauer/Lansing camp of adventure nonfiction? Other interests include but are not limited to: bicycles, sailing, beautifully crafted sentences. Other than MOBY DICK progenitor INTO THE HEART OF THE SEA, do you have any recommendations?
Thanks!

“Coffee—cheers you up. Makes you feel like you’re a big guy.”

– Every time I open up The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker I wish I were just reading The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker.

“Self-consciousness is the curse of the city and all that sophistication implies....”

– From Annie Dillard’s A Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.

meganlives asked: I seem to remember Esther Freud's Love Falls as being a quite cozy blanket of a love-book just waiting to be snuggled into.

davidcho asked: Hey, do you guys have wifi?

“I never found it possible to think without thinking about myself thinking. And...”

– Anne Carson again, from her Paris Review interview again.

Anthony Doerr wins The Story Prize! →

juliefredrickson asked: Thanks for the awesome sci-fi suggestions from Dustin a while back! Just Tumbled my purchases a moment ago. Very excited to start on the M. John Harrison in particular. Tumblr! It has actual ROI. I spent $57.68 thanks to your lovely suggestions.

prairie-homo-companion asked: Quiet books about love? I Capture the Castle! Always.

And it may not be quiet, but Tipping the Velvet never fails to make me feel triumphantly romantic. And cozy.

McNally Jackson is proud to announce The Bridge, a new reading series devoted to literary translation. It aims to promote public awareness about the art of translation by serving as a regular venue for readings, by both well-established and emerging translators and authors, and discussions on a range of issues related to this important literary art and practice. Tonight at 7 pm, we have...

The Believer Book Award Shortlist →

“The deli is a good place to stage New York stories. There are lots of things to...”

– From this review of Ben Ryder Howe’s My Korean Deli by Molly Fischer. It’s great, and not just because Molly lets me date her.

Anonymous asked: I know it's been a week, but if Anonymous is still looking for quietly beautiful books about two people in love or not in love but still married (or somewhere in between), I recommend 'A Happy Marriage' by Rafael Yglesias. It's an intoxicating picture of a life lived in New York, and also so joyfully sad at points that I was crying on the plane on my way to a wedding (and I...