Well done, Powell’s! We love these.
(via brooklynbookgirl)
Source: projectequilibrium
The #officemove has unearthed the last remaining WINKIE marketing paraphernalia. Free Winkie!
Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic.
Leif Enger, Peace Like a River (via itsfromabook)
Mobstr - The Story (2012)
The first installation of The Story was a simple “Once upon a time…” The artist expected maintenance crews to paint over his graffiti. As soon as the wall was cleaned, Mobstr proceeded with the second installation, which was then also painted over, and so on until the narrative was completed. His intention was to create an indirect “teamwork” between two opposing societal forces exemplified by street artist and street maintenance crew.
(via utnereader)
Source: likeafieldmouse
9. A writer gives up having a life for twelve months and comes out at the end of it with nothing to show for it but a one-star Amazon review written by someone in Idaho called JesusRainbowUnicorn who doesn’t like the reference to ‘acts of a sinful nature’ on page 439, third paragraph, second line.
A surviving copy of Arcade Fire’s Neon Bible, from the pre-release, black-and-white-art batch they sent us for giving them permission to use the title of John Kennedy Toole’s posthumous novel #officemove
Summer poems, from Pulitzer Prize winner Kay Ryan (via)
Libraries aren’t in the real world, after all. They’re places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought.
Paul Auster (via picadorbookroom)
I wonder if Paul Auster has been to one recently, though.
Libraries have actually become, in the US at least, de facto homeless shelters and centers for the mentally ill, as well as a resource for those needing childcare as well as the unemployed seeking work. There’s now signs on some of them in New York barring people from bringing ‘large packages’ which basically means ‘homeless people cannot bring their life’s belongings in here’—but they allowed it for almost a decade as homelessness in New York reached epic proportions. There’s actually very few places in American life so of this world, more than a library. Most public libraries are where you can see what is really going on for most Americans in a way you won’t ever see on the news or in a television show, or even in most fiction or nonfiction. And it is to the credit of most librarians that they continue to operate, despite budget cuts, the outlandish depravity of austerians and privitization mongrels. So, let’s not treat libraries like delicate flowers or temples withdrawn from the concerns of the world. They’ve shown themselves to be much tougher than that. Let’s instead make them what they should be, a better thing than what they’ve had to become—and look to what has been laid at their feet as a map to what our country really needs from its government services.
(via alexanderchee)
Alexander Chee, telling it like it is.
(via libraryjournal)
Source: picadorbookroom
Manuscript page of an unpublished Allen Ginsberg poem.
In Translation: THE NEW VALLEY by Josh Weil
Germany
Page 1 of 18
