February 2012
7 posts
Feb 22nd
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“I do things like get in a taxi and say, “The library, and step on it.”
– David Foster Wallace (via 4mbivalent)
Feb 21st
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Feb 16th
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Feb 14th
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Feb 9th
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Feb 7th
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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...
Feb 3rd
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January 2012
3 posts
Jan 19th
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The Perks of Being a Novelist →
An ode to indie booksellers.
Jan 18th
Jan 11th
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December 2011
1 post
Dec 9th
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November 2011
5 posts
Nov 30th
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“This evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the...”
– Ted Kooser, “A Happy Birthday” (via bibliofila)
Nov 21st
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Nov 15th
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Nov 7th
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Nov 1st
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October 2011
4 posts
Oct 13th
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From Art Prophets to Art Profiteers →
Oct 8th
Other Press Night at Greenlight Bookstore →
Oct 7th
3 tags
Oct 6th
September 2011
4 posts
Sep 20th
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Sep 15th
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Brooklyn Book Festival 2011 →
Sep 14th
Call and Response →
Sep 9th
August 2011
6 posts
Aug 26th
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Aug 23rd
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Man of a Hundred Thousand Books →
booksmatter: 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.
Aug 9th
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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)
Aug 9th
Writing Who You Know →
Aug 3rd
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Aug 2nd
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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)
Jul 24th
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Sex, Love, and Death: The Memoirs of Paul Zweig →
Jul 6th
June 2011
6 posts
Jun 29th
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Jun 23rd
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Jun 15th
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“Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from...”
– William  Butler Yeats, born today in 1865 (via overlookpress)
Jun 13th
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Damned by the Nazis, Hailed by the Feminists →
Marie Tatar on Irmgard Keun.
Jun 9th
The True Story Behind The Reservoir →
Jun 9th
May 2011
4 posts
BEA Preview: Ronald De Feo →
May 19th
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May 18th
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Indie Presses Celebrate Indie Booksellers at BEA →
May 14th
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PEN World Voices: Herve Le Tellier in Conversation →
May 12th
April 2011
8 posts
Apr 27th
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Apr 22nd
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“Maybe the measure of our reading should therefore be, not the number of books...”
– Gabriel Zaid, So Many Books  (via fabula)
Apr 19th
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Apr 14th
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Galore shortlisted for IMPAC →
Apr 13th
Apr 11th
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Apr 7th
Galore and a Paradise of Books →
Apr 6th
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