Reblogged from Riverhead Books
WANT.
Hats off to Geoff Sawers and Bridget Hannigan for their incredible hand-lettered poster of our literary United States. Get yours here.
Reblogged from UNABRIDGED BOOKSTORE
Tags: lit
We’re getting our first report back from the folks who went to the Sanitation Garage. Mayor Bloomberg’s office tweeted: “Property from #Zuccotti, incl #OWS library, safely stored @ 57th St Sanit Garage; can be picked up Weds” But it turns out, not surprisingly, that this was a lie.
Our folks on the ground say: “There are only about 25 boxes of books; many of the books are destroyed. Laptops here but destroyed. Can’t find tent or shelves.”
One of our librarians Zach came up with a partial list of what was taken and it’s looking like only a few books and our (destroyed) laptops were at Sanitation. So Mayor Bloomberg: where is the People’s Library?
(via UPDATE: State of Seized Library | Occupy Wall Street Library)
Reblogged from You Rach You Lose
Tags: lit
Y’all may have heard of a promotion Melville House has put together to promote the tragicomic works of Andrey Kurkov, Death and the Penguin and Penguin Lost. Because they are geniuses, they decided that bookstores which sold 25 or more total copies of the books would be rewarded by having an emperor penguin adopted in their name! And because we already love these books, we’re pleased as punch to tell you that we’re participating. So if your reading list could use a little more mafia and a little more penguin (and really, why wouldn’t it), head on over.
We also decided that, once we’ve reached our goal, our penguin will be named after one of the customers who helped us get there! So make sure you put your name in in-store (if you order online, you’re covered).
We love these reviews so very very much.
Also, Boucher will be at WORD on Tuesday, August 30, reading with Emily St. John Mandel and Reif Larsen.
Reblogged from Horn! Reviews
Famous Authors’ Signatures
We have deciphered all of them except for the top right. Whose is that??
Reblogged from HMH Literature in Translation
Tags: we heart authors lit
There's a war on for the Atlantic's Twitter book club!
We’ve already seen pleas for Wodehouse and Murakami votes. We’re going to wait it out on the sidelines, but here’s the July Shortlist:
- The Help, Kathryn Stockett
- Right Ho, Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse
- State of Wonder, Ann Patchett
- Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami
- Juliet, Naked, Nick Hornby
For history buff/war novel dads: Matterhorn, Karl Marlantes; The President Is a Sick Man, Matthew Algeo
For literary dads: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1
For sporty dads: Take Time for Paradise, A. Bartlett Giamatti
For NPR-loving dads: This I Believe: On Fatherhood, edited by Dan Gediman
For dads who spend time in the kitchen: Man With a Pan, edited by John Donohue
For smartypants dads: What?, Mark Kurlansky
For rocker dads: Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY, and the Lost Story of 1970, David Browne
For dads with a sense of humor: Go The F*ck To Sleep, Adam Mansbach & Ricardo Cortes
Tags: happy father's day lit
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