This is a Poem that Heals Fish
“A poem
is when you have the sky in your mouth.
It is hot like fresh bread,
when you eat it,
a little is always left over”
Life in the bookstore...such as it is.
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
Rumors have it at night the store turns into a submarine. We have yet to establish documentary proof.
• About
• Ask me anything
Vague Updates from 57th Street Booksellers
Two reviews from our youngest kid critic
On Who Needs Donuts: “It’s like everyone in this book lives in Sillytown.” —Isaiah, age 3
On The Obstinate Pen:”This book also sounds like it is in Sillytown.” —Isaiah
Sorry Please Thank You by Charles Yu (Official Book Trailer) (by Knopfdoubleday)
“I want to make corporeal characters, corporeal writing, I want to bring the intensities and contradictions and beauty and violence and stench and desire and astonishing physicality of the body back into literature.”
— the incredible Lidia Yuknavitch
Our new calendar rack. Tastefully packed in only the finest Chinese daily newspaper. (Taken with Instagram)
Did we miss a memo? #thedevilisthenewmermaids (Taken with Instagram)
Doppelgangers: Patrick Somerville reading from THIS BRIGHT RIVER at Jimmy’s Woodlawn Tap (Taken with Instagram)
Doppelgangers: Jac Jemc reads from MY ONLY WIFE at Jimmy’s Woodlawn Tap (Taken with Instagram)
The Seminary Co-Op
There’s that beginning-of-quarter rush for books, searching through the arteries of the basement for Foucault and Aristotle and Dante. There’s the afternoon when you grab a latte from a campus cafe and settle yourself in a corner, hidden below the quads with a book plucked from a shelf. There’s the first time you get lost in it, blissfully unaware of direction or section, and discover something new.
After fifty years, the Sem Co-Op bookstore at UChicago is moving from 5757 S. University to a new spot. Help to capture character of the Co-Op before it moves by sharing your photos, stories and videos. If you would like to participate in the project in any way (have your portrait taken in the bookstore, share your favorite Co-Op memory etc.) – please contact Jasmine and Megan at sem.coop.project@gmail.com.
