April 2012
25 posts
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Apr 29th
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Apr 27th
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Apr 27th
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Apr 26th
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Apr 26th
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Wait, Sam who?
Apr 25th
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“…loath to say good-bye to a thing so every way brimful of every interest...”
– From Moby-Dick, obviously. Loath though I may be to say good-bye to the store, I won’t linger long. Dustin takes control after this post. Gird yourselves!
Apr 25th
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“At the Philip Levine reading we chatted for all of a minute about Geoff Dyer...”
– Housing Works poetry reading - m4w Missed connection from last night’s packed, amazing, hilarious, poetrytastic Knopf and Tumblr Celebrate Poetry party. (via housingworksbookstore)
Apr 24th
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Apr 24th
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Apr 23rd
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Apr 23rd
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Some news
Dear tumblr friends, I’m very sad to let you know that I’m leaving the bookmongery—and, sadder still, this tumblr. It’s been fun, tumblring the things with you—jokes about Moby-Dick, Salivagate, Funbruary and Funch, answering questions about what books to get your dads, the great American Sad Keith Gessen discount, liking all your guys’s stuff. It’s been...
Apr 20th
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Apr 19th
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Apr 18th
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Apr 17th
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Apr 17th
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Apr 17th
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Apr 16th
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Apr 12th
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Kickstart our Kate! →
Our own Kate Milford—kid section guru, author of The Boneshaker—is kickstarting (kickstartering?) a novella she’s written to accompany the release of her other new book, The Broken Lands. How does she do it? With many fancy pens, that’s how. The novella’s called The Kairos Mechanism (!), and she’s publishing it on our book machine and on something called the...
Apr 11th
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Apr 10th
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“Given the industry’s fears about Amazon’s increasing monopoly on talent and...”
– Ruth wrote a great op-ed about how publishers are sabotaging themselves by requiring booksellers to apply digital rights management to the books they sell. You might think you don’t care about this issue, but if you like books, writing or reading, you care about this issue. (via emilygould)
Apr 6th
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Apr 3rd
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All the dialogue tags from two facing pages of 50...
,” he cries out loudly as he finds his release… ,” he breathes. ,” he whispers, quiet joy in his voice. ?” he asks gently. ,” I breathe sleepily. ,” I murmur. ,” he says. ,” I whisper. ,” he warns. ,” he murmurs. BONUS FROM THE NEXT PAGE: “…she enthuses down the phone. Her voice is a soothing balm.”
Apr 3rd
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Apr 2nd
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