Amazing amazing color photos of America during the Depression. Stay tuned for a possible lecture/screening event to go along with a book of them this spring!
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Rumors have it at night the store turns into a submarine. We have yet to establish documentary proof.
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Rumors have it at night the store turns into a submarine. We have yet to establish documentary proof.
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Vague Updates from 57th Street Booksellers
Best. Valentine’s. Video. Ever.
Looks like the literary residents of LA’s Skylight Books are having a hard time resisting the passionate spirit of Valentine’s Day!
“…an in-your-face owning of one’s vulnerability and fucked-upness to the point of embarrassing and offending tight-asses is a powerful feminist strategy. writing is tough work, i don’t really see how anyone could write from a position of weakness. sometimes i may start out in that position, but the act of commandeering words flips me into a position of power. to deny behaviors and experiences gendered as weak or “feminine” is not queer or feminist, it’s heteronormative to the hilt. like kathy acker, i long to quiver and terrify in the same gasp.”
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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 PhD and/or are interested in shame and privacy as areas of scholarly/artistic investigation. Even if you’re not, I might have a good breakup book to recommend.
(via emilygould)
Oh yeah, the buddhist is amazing. But can we talk about some of those breakup books? I’m pretty attached to Lydia Davis’ The End of the Story …
(via emilygould)
MATHILDA SAVITCH MATHILDA SAVITCH MATHILDA SAVITCH
(come on everyone!)
Today’s theme? Silhouettes.
- The Bradshaw Variations by Rachel Cusk
- The Girl with Glass Feet by Ali Shaw
- Mathilda Savitch by Victor Lodato
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- The Stuff of Life by Marc Schultz
- Castle by J. Robert Lennon
A lovely video of Sophie Blackall, one of our favorite illustrators!
Either the Morlocks are coming up to shop or the Hellmouth in Room 3 is reopening…
(This happened a few months ago & has been fixed, but this post didn’t go up first time out. It’ll happen again, though, so here it is with the original caption.)
“Paper books may be the only media remaining that don’t report your behavior back to anonymous aggregators.”
