February 2012
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“Sections in the bookstore - Books You Haven’t Read - Books You Needn’t Read - Books Made for Purposes Other Than Reading - Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong to the Category of Books Read Before Being Written - Books That If You Had More Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But Unfortunately Your Days Are Numbered - Books You Mean to Read But...
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“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx
We’ve been hearing great things about Wonder by R.J. Palacio, from our sister division Random House Children’s Books, so we’re going to hunker down with that tonight. What are you reading this weekend?
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“Fiction’s about what it is to be a fucking human being.”
― David Foster Wallace
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“The Ransom Center is on a buying binge, but not with the long-dead titans of...”
– Canon Fodder - Magazine - The Atlantic
Which contemporary authors would you like to see get their personal papers archived?
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(un)justly (un)read: A visual poem by dsh, from... →
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A visual poem by dsh, from Begin Again: A Book of Reflections and Reversals (w/ an introduction by Stefan Themerson).
Some of the other poems in the book are printed on loose translucent papers, which are housed in pages that serve as pockets. A reader has to flip and/or rotate the poems…
Trippy, brilliant.
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“No one knows the nature of God, or even if God exists. In a sense, all of our...”
– A Brief Interview with Alan Lightman, Author, ‘Mr g’ « Suvudu - Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, Movies, Comics, and Games
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Dashboard? More Like Bookshelf: Your Guide to... →
We would say this guide by The Millions to literary Tumblrs is fantastic even if we weren’t included on it. But we were, which makes us love it even more! (We also are aware of the irony in text linking to an article that calls us “[i]mage-heavy in a great way,” but what can we say - we like to keep people on their toes.) (Also, it’s Friday and we haven’t had our...
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