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Doppelgängers: Sara Levine reading from TREASURE ISLAND!!! at Jimmy’s tonight
Sara Levine reading from TREASURE ISLAND!!! @ Jimmy’s (Taken with instagram)
“Sex, as an apt pretext for breaking the monotony; motor-sex; anxiety-sex; the habit of sex, as any glut that can well become a burden; colossal, headlong, frenzied, ambiguous sex, as a game that baffles then enlightens then baffles again; pretense-sex, see-through-sex. Pleasure, in the end, as praise that goes against the grain of life lived. Conjectures cut short during a walk on a pale afternoon. Block after block, ascending, then descending. A strain in the step as well as the mind.”
— Almost Never by Daniel Sada, trans. by Katherine Silver
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Gob was there, too. He stood next to Walt, hand in hand with a pale child of five or six years, whom he called Pickie and who was, he said, his new ward. “I found him two weeks ago in a drift of snow in Madison Square,” he told Walt. “Could I leave him there? Could I leave him to the weary mercy of an orphanage?” Pickie was a friendly child, but a strange one. Walt decided three minutes after meeting him that he had been driven mad by whatever cruelties he’d suffered before Gob found him.
“There you are!” Pickie said to Walt, when Gob had introduced them. “There you are at last!” He rushed over and gave Walt a hug around the leg. “Pick me up!” he cried. “Pick me up, Uncle Walt!” Walt took him up, and when he gave him an affectionate squeeze the boy made a curious noise, a deep, resonant burp, and the air around him suddenly reeked of blood. Walt put him down. The boy was stroking his face like a fly. Later, Walt noticed that there was a big hole in his beard, as if someone had taken a bite out of it.
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Gob’s Grief, Chris Adrian
Pickie Beecher arrives on the scene! Pickie Beecher.
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The quintessential Aira sentence. It appears at least three times in each of his novels.
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Given the industry’s fears about Amazon’s increasing monopoly on talent and market share, coupled with its ability to drive prices, you’d think publishers would be hesitant to do anything that would make it easier for Amazon to maintain its dominance. Instead, by insisting that e-booksellers implement DRM, publishers are essentially handcuffing themselves to the train tracks and giving Amazon the key.
Emily Books has gotten around this problem, so far, by selling great books published by smaller companies who either agree with us about DRM’s uselessness or can’t afford to care about it. And we’ve experienced exactly zero problems with piracy so far. We still dream of rescuing neglected books from major publishers’ backlists and using our unique platform to introduce these books to a new audience of eager readers. That major publishers currently can’t allow a small bookstore to do something that’s in their own and in their authors’ best interests means the system is broken.
”— 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)
From Matt de la Pena’s blog. His book Mexican WhiteBoy has been banned from Arizona school curriculums.
(via yaykidlit)
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This sequel to THE LAST WEREWOLF was super fun and a great new work by Duncan. Out here in the states on June 26th. You’ll want to read this. Haven’t read the first? Well lets get you started there.
aaknopf:
“There is something liberating about a novel like this. As well as offering a new vantage point from which to consider the old questions of life, it also provides a welcome fantasy in which there is not just extreme sex and violence (including the werewolf lovers’ full-moon ritual “fuckkilleat”), but also smoking, drinking and a lot of very fancy hotels. Werewolves can’t get cancer and don’t need pensions. Who wouldn’t want to be part of their world for a while?”
—The Guardian [UK] on Glen Duncan’s follow-up to The Last Werewolf.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m20sf15j711qbxxuao1_500.jpg)
This sequel to THE LAST WEREWOLF was super fun and a great new work by Duncan. Out here in the states on June 26th. You’ll want to read this. Haven’t read the first? Well lets get you started there.
“There is something liberating about a novel like this. As well as offering a new vantage point from which to consider the old questions of life, it also provides a welcome fantasy in which there is not just extreme sex and violence (including the werewolf lovers’ full-moon ritual “fuckkilleat”), but also smoking, drinking and a lot of very fancy hotels. Werewolves can’t get cancer and don’t need pensions. Who wouldn’t want to be part of their world for a while?”
—The Guardian [UK] on Glen Duncan’s follow-up to The Last Werewolf.
