January 2011
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mary gaitskill.
Veronica means a lot to me. I just finally finished it over Christmas, but Halle first made me pick it up about 3 years ago when we babysat kids in the same class and would take them to the library after school to do their homework. I never checked it out but just picked it up everytime we went, and then we stopped going to the library and I never finished it. Don’t worry though, I was just...
“Well I left work at 10—”
“What? It’s like midnight! Did you go somewhere after?”
“Oh. No, I was downstairs building a snowman, but it fell apart.”
“What?”
“It crumbled. So I came upstairs.”
“Wait. You were on my street making a snowman? Why didn’t you call me or text me or something? You came over and stayed...
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me: how's your love life?
ex: that's random. why do you ask?
me: because it's the only thing i can't find out from the internet.
“Supermachine started as a ‘zine I was doing when I lived in Blacksburg,...”
– Ben Fama of Supermachine
Supermachine has a kickstarter proj going and I interviewed Ben about it over on the blerg! Witness the sincerity!
The expurgation of the clitoris in the diary of... →
housingworksbookstore:
“The effacement of the clitoris extends even to Anne Frank’s Diary of a Young Girl. When the unabridged edition of the diaries were released in 1995, the 50th anniversary of her death, they included the previously deleted passages that contained some of Anne’s negative remarks about her housemates and parents as well as a lengthy entry from March 24, 1944 in which she...
hatethefame:
Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder
yes plz
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bookselling among friends.
comingandcrying:
We’re making big future plans and lists and there’s even a spreadsheet. But first, a question for you:
What are your favorite indie bookstores? What’s the McNally Jackson in your neighborhood? Where would you most like to see Coming & Crying on the shelves in 2011?
???
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me: my friend from high school just had a baby. her second baby.
cindy: on purpose?
me: HA YEP.
cindy: oh. if it was accidental that would be one thing, sucked into an unhappy marriage or something, but...
me: yeah that would just be EDGY.
Watchwords without borders is doing a kickstarter proj! an anthology of literature out of afghanistan.
this video is great/sad.
DID YOU KNOW that only 3% of literature in the US is a translated work from an international author?
EESHK.
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I have been trying to tell this story for months—I’ve been writing it in the shower, telling it to myself while scramble for a G train i can already hear passing me, walking around town, thinking about nothing and then a little about this. By the time I get back to my computer, though, it doesn’t matter anymore, or i can’t find a way to tell it that matters.
Well,...
I have been trying to tell this story for months—I’ve been writing it in the shower, telling it to myself while scramble for a G train i can already hear passing me, walking around town, thinking about nothing and then a little about this. By the time I get back to my computer, though, it doesn’t matter anymore, or i can’t find a way to tell it that matters.
Well,...
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McNally Jackson Bookmongers: McNally J's Top 100... →
(via mcnallyjackson)
Well look who came out ahead of Nicole Krauss.
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two things i was into* this winter, →
the two things are SMITTEN KITCHEN and TWIN PEAKS. CAN WE TALK ABOUT THEM?
“You are not Bob Dylan. Sorry! I hope some day you will do me the favor of telling me the same.”—someone who doesn’t think as highly of me as dave brown’s intro does.
*”totally” into
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“She was a woman of punctual life-tides, ate right, had suffered at all the right...”
– gary lutz