February 2012
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And on the topic of Dana-related shenanigans:
The new Walter Mosley ended up in the kids’ section due to an uncanny resemblance to the new John Green.
We swear we’re paying attention most of the time.
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For one brief moment Dana thought she’d discovered the long lost Mr. Men title: Mr. Vertigo…
Turns out it’s not this kind of book:
But this:
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Everywhere and Nowhere
I keep trying to read this while at the register and then getting interrupted, but I’m pretty sure it’s good.
lareviewofbooks:
ERIC BEEN on John Jeremiah Sullivan’s Pulphead and a conversation with Sullivan by MICHAEL GOETZMAN. Collage Illustration © Lisa Jane Persky
John Jeremiah Sullivan Pulphead: Essays Farrar, Straus and Giroux, October 2011. 369 pp. In the swirl of...
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Watchwordbrooklyn:
Best. Valentine’s. Video. Ever.
riverheadbooks:
Looks like the literary residents of LA’s Skylight Books are having a hard time resisting the passionate spirit of Valentine’s Day!
Lemony Snicket to Return in 4-Book Series -... →
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“…an in-your-face owning of one’s vulnerability and fucked-upness to the point of...”
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dodie bellamy, in the buddhist. a year and a half ago, when mike and i broke up, emily gave me i love dick. this breakup season, she gave me the buddhist. i cannot put this book down for obvious reasons. (via karaj)
PSA: I am there for you with the breakup books, especially if you are getting a...
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WatchA lovely video of Sophie Blackall, one of our favorite illustrators!
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January 2012
21 posts
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Book Crush of the Day: The Secret Lives of...
Nicole has fallen in love with Phillipe Lechermeier & Rebecca Dautremer’s The Secret Lives of Princesses. (and rightly! it’s absolutely stunning!) Here’s what she has to say:
Part biography and part manual, this beautiful book is an introduction to the most unusual princesses you’ll ever meet. Eschewing the traditional narrative of a maiden in distress, The Secret...
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Finishing Touches
I just read Maggie Nelson’s astonishing lyric essay Bluets and now want to follow everything she says —
lareviewofbooks:
MAGGIE NELSON on the posthumous work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. Atmospheric Changes, Artist’s Books © Eve Kosofsky Sedgewick (date unknown)
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick The Weather in Proust Edited by Jonathan Goldberg Duke University Press, January 2012. 215 pp. ...
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“He made two mistakes,” Cogan said. “The second mistake was making...”
– Cogan’s Trade by George V. Higgins
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“But after I got over the business of now being a book buyer, I felt sort of good...”
– Calling Mr. King by Ronald De Feo
Just a reminder, fellow booksellers, that the next person you wait on could well be a professional hit man (don’t worry about the amateurs) in the midst of a mid-career crisis…
Another reason to stop supporting Amazon. →
mesjak:
Between this and the nasty pre-Xmas “comparison shopping” boondoggle, and their current pressuring publishers for more co-op and better terms, it’s almost as though Amazon is starting to act like a monopoly! Huh.
yolaleah:
Brilliance Audio, owned by Amazon, has made the decision to stop allowing libraries to purchase and circulate their downloadable audiobooks. Gee, thanks Amazon!
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“Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class...”
– He Died With His Eyes Open by Derek Raymond
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“..even when he did speak he wasn’t exactly polite or impolite - he just...”
– He Died With His Eyes Open by Derek Raymond
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“Dear Friend,
I broke a glass this morning, and it reminded me of you, sprawled...”
– Rebecca Lehman “Letters to a Shithead Friend”
December 2011
11 posts
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The combination of watching Young Adult and being away from the store for a week led me to have a dream that every single book in the kids’ section sold out with the exception of Lisi Harrison’s Clique series…
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“In general I tend to write long, too long. Sometimes I’m just word drunk. Other...”
– Elissa Schappell, interviewed in BOMBLOG
