February 2012
3 posts
BOOKS MATTER: the blog for people who smell books:... →
booksmatter:
In 1937 [Graham] Greene was a film reviewer for Night and Day magazine. In a review of the Shirley Temple vehicle Wee Willie Winkie, he wrote: “Her admirers – middle-aged men and clergymen – respond to her dubious coquetry, to the sight of her well-shaped and desirable little body, packed…
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January 2012
6 posts
“Taking trains and trams in Berlin, I noticed: people reading. Books, I mean, not...”
– Joshua Cohen, My Berlin Airlift - NYTimes.com (via housingworksbookstore)
December 2011
8 posts
The secret histories of secondhand books →
Wayne Gooderham, guardian.co.uk
The personal dedications one finds in secondhand books are often as fascinating as the text. In honour of this, we’re starting a new series showcasing my most intriguing finds See what you make of this message to Dad from Safei in a copy of A Ti…
Surprisingly, I am less sure than this guy on...
Fan-fricking-tastic.
towirr:
A gentleman named Farhad Manjoo just posted a proudly contrarian article on Slate explaining why independent bookstores are not only irrelevent but maybe even harmful. I work at an independent bookstore, so that’s an argument I’d be very very curious to see made well. Honestly, I know the failings of small booksellers as well as anyone, and it’d be good to see...
The Amazon Kerfuffle; or, Rule one of the...
But sometimes you can’t look away. It happened to me with the Gawker article that started the recent Amazon hubub.
Since I’m busy running my very own small bookstore, it’s hard to find the time to long-form respond to this flagrant eff-you-and-all-the-hard-work-you-do message Amazon is sending—I direct you to the excellent letter written by Oren Teicher, the CEO of the...
November 2011
11 posts
“Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
– David Foster Wallace (via leaair)
Best of #junkfoodnovels (so far)
wwnorton:
The Dairie Queene
How Green Was My Slurpee
The Sound and The McFlurry
The Four ButterFingers of Death
A Portrait of The Artist as a Young Manwich
Skittlemarch
Remains of the Danish
Where The Mild Wings Are
There are too many outstanding entries to count, and with Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie participating the bar is high. Jump in here.
Ohmygoodness.
“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved...”
– Maurice Sendak (via thatluciegirl)
Amazing story.
(via shandel)
I haven’t found a solid source for this quote yet, but it’s a lovely story. —Sarah (via npr)
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“There are certain books that one remembers together with the material...”
– Elif Batuman, The Possessed (via housingworksbookstore)
Yes.
“I assumed that my days at Creation [Music Festival] would be fairly lonely and...”
– John Jeremiah Sullivan, PULPHEAD
October 2011
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An MFA Degree For Designers Who Want To Change The... →
So you want to change the world? Cynics may send you off to Wall Street or a white-shoe law firm. Those with gumption will look for another way. The new Master’s of Fine Arts in Design for Social Innovation has opened its doors just for them.
“We’re adamant this not be a program where people sit in a classroom and talk about how great it’s going to be when they go out and change the world,”...
September 2011
6 posts
“He was just one of those Englishmen who was always saying silly things to sound...”
– Edward St Aubyn, Some Hope
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August 2011
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July 2011
8 posts
A sound snapshot of the shop getting ready…
