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“In three years of teaching, this is, by far, my favorite student error.”
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The Goodreads books added stats for Fifty Shades of Grey.
I’ve been doing this job for a while now, and I have never, ever...
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Okay, so. You guys.
I bought this at Word on Sunday and I read it on Monday and oh my God you guys it is a perfect book.
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How To Survive A Zombie Apocalypse
At Comics: Philosophy and Practice this weekend in Chicago, Chris Ware revealed more details about his highly-anticipated latest project, Building Stories, coming from Pantheon this October. As attendee Kathleen Dunley put it, Building Stories is “many little books in a beautiful box.”
Stay tuned, we can’t wait to share more of this exciting new graphic novel with you.
“Chris Ware’s BUILDING STORIES is the rarest kind of brilliance; it is simultaneously heartbreaking, hilarious, shockingly intimate and deeply insightful. There isn’t a graphic artist alive or dead who has used the form this wonderfully to convey the passage of time, loneliness, longing, frustration or bliss. It is the reader’s choice where and how to begin this monumental work — the only regret you will have in starting it is knowing that it will end.”
- J.J. Abrams
“The problem with unintended consequences isn’t with the consequences, it’s with the unintended. Just because you didn’t intend for something to happen doesn’t mean you didn’t want it to happen.”
- Charles Yu, Sorry Please Thank You
We’re so, so excited for this book, which comes out 7/24!
Alexander McCall Smith gives advice to aspiring writers as part of our Writers on Writing series.
We asked Mark Z. Danielewski - author of House of Leaves, Only Revolutions, and the upcoming The Fifty Year Sword and The Familiar - to share a tip for aspiring writers as part of our Writers on Writing series. Watch the video to see what he had to say.
A sneak peek at The Hive, the sequel to Charles Burns’ X’ed Out, coming from Pantheon in October!
Against Wind and Tide, the sixth and final collection of Lindbergh’s diaries and letters, is on sale now!
We can’t think of a better pairing for Alexander McCall Smith’s latest (The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection, coming 4/3!) than these - dare we say precious? - teas that The Republic of Tea has concocted in honor of No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series!
On December 17, 1862, just weeks before Abraham Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation, General Grant issued what remains the most notorious anti-Jewish order by a government official in American history - General Order No. 11. His attempt to eliminate black marketeers by targeting for expulsion all Jews “as a class” unleashed a firestorm of controversy that made newspaper headlines and terrified and enraged the approximately 150,000 Jews then living in the United States, who feared the importation of European antisemitism onto American soil.
Although the order was quickly rescinded by a horrified Abraham Lincoln, the scandal came back to haunt Grant when he ran for president in 1868. Never before had Jews become an issue in a presidential contest, and never before had they been confronted so publicly with the question of how to balance their “American” and “Jewish” interests.
In When General Grant Expelled the Jews, award-winning historian Jonathan D. Sarna gives us the first complete account of this little-known episode—including Grant’s subsequent apology, his groundbreaking appointment of Jews to prominent positions in his administration, and his unprecedented visit to the land of Israel. Sarna sheds new light on one of our most enigmatic presidents, on the Jews of his day, and on the ongoing debate between group loyalty and national loyalty that continues to roil American political and social discourse.
The above cartoon shows General Grant shedding “crocodile tears” over the persecution of Jews in Russia. The quote is from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, act 2, scene 3. It was originally published in the satirical journal Puck. Image courtesy the Library of Congress.
According to NPR, “We know that fruits and vegetables do us all kinds of good. But evidently they also give us a healthful glow — by tinting our skin yellow and red.” We think it’s safe to say Pantheon has been eating our veggies lately, huh?
(Shown: Language by Daniel L. Everett, Incognito by David Eagleman, There but for the by Ali Smith, China in Ten Words by Yu Hua, and The Lost Art of Gratitude by Alexander McCall Smith. Also, carrots.)
It’s 70 degrees in New York City right now - seems like a perfect time to put together a Pinterest board of other mellow, yellow book jackets!
