February 2012
7 posts
I do things like get in a taxi and say, “The library, and step on it.
– David Foster Wallace (via 4mbivalent)
Super Bowl XLVI: Other Press takes on Beacon Press
In advance of Super Bowl XLVI, which will see the New York Giants take on the New England Patriots in Indianapolis on Sunday, New York-based publisher Other Press is pleased to announce a promotion in cooperation with Boston-based Beacon Press: a wager that stakes each press to the fate of their hometown team.
Terrie Akers, Manager of Online Publicity and Social Media for Other Press, says of the...
January 2012
3 posts
The Perks of Being a Novelist →
An ode to indie booksellers.
December 2011
1 post
November 2011
5 posts
This evening, I sat by an open window
and read till the light was gone and the...
– Ted Kooser, “A Happy Birthday” (via bibliofila)
October 2011
4 posts
From Art Prophets to Art Profiteers →
Other Press Night at Greenlight Bookstore →
3 tags
September 2011
4 posts
Brooklyn Book Festival 2011 →
Call and Response →
August 2011
6 posts
3 tags
Man of a Hundred Thousand Books →
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Don Stewart is the neat, smooth proprietor of a rather unkempt and chaotic bookstore, where leisurely browsing is addictive and almost mandatory.
Yes, I am jealous.
How to keep the grammatically challenged off the... →
By requiring you to discern from various sets of simple but somehow commonly mistaken words just to be allowed online, these CAPTCHAs would rapidly rid the web of phrases like “Your an idiot” and “I’m definately getting Nickelback tickets.” (via The Book Lady)
Writing Who You Know →
July 2011
2 posts
Typography may well be the most direct visual representation of the tone of...
– Jonathan Barnbrook, quoted in Simon Garfield’s Just My Type (galley edition)
Sex, Love, and Death: The Memoirs of Paul Zweig →
June 2011
6 posts
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from...
– William Butler Yeats, born today in 1865 (via overlookpress)
Damned by the Nazis, Hailed by the Feminists →
Marie Tatar on Irmgard Keun.
The True Story Behind The Reservoir →
May 2011
4 posts
BEA Preview: Ronald De Feo →
Indie Presses Celebrate Indie Booksellers at BEA →
PEN World Voices: Herve Le Tellier in Conversation →
April 2011
8 posts
Maybe the measure of our reading should therefore be, not the number of books...
– Gabriel Zaid, So Many Books (via fabula)
Galore shortlisted for IMPAC →
Galore and a Paradise of Books →