What Holt is signaling, quite consciously, with their yellow and reflective purple titling for the new Hilary Mantel.
Atria’s concerns with the hardcover jacket design for Jennifer Weiner’s Then Came You:
- Skirt color
- Hair style
- Ugly desk
Things about which they are blithely unconcerned:
- The terrifying geometries of their stock photography, making it seem as if the floor of this office lies at a forty-five degree angle to the surface of the earth. Or is she in a plummeting aircraft? Maybe it’s the future, and she is actually in the interior of a spun up asteroid, and those are screens meant to ease claustrophobia. Which explains the Future Desk. And the blouse. Nobody wears green on X-371, lest they be targeted by the security wasps, obviously.
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Hey Dustin, how about getting booksellers to reenact this Cocteau?
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Is this a joke?
‘The Human Centipede” fans can also show their love for horrifying surgery by wearing a necklace inspired by the movie.
Further...
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This week, the Ransom Center at UT-Austin opened up its archives of the works of J.M. Coetzee. Because the Nobel Prize winner is an alumnus, he...
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New Year’s Day —
everything is in blossom!
I feel about average.-Kobayashi Issa
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“You see things differently when you’re in love. Two outpatients from a methadone clinic slap each other on the corner. A goiter rides the crosstown...”
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BREAKING NEWS!
We’re open (as of 2pm yesterday). Stop by and say hello!


As of 2pm today, powerHouse Arena...
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the lights are back on!
we’re filling our case with cheese.
we have beer too.
we open at 1pm.
come say hi.
thank you NYC.
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Let’s do thiiiisssss.