March 2012
February 2012
“I was convinced I was going to be the only one there, since I had assumed that...”
– I Miss Meg Ryan « Girls in their 20’s
Remember how much fun We’ve Got Mail was y’all? Good times. Also while watching the movie I suddenly remembered that I definitely had Meg Ryan’s YGM haircut circa 1999 though I just looked like a boy with a mullet. Fun fact for your...
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“Glenn Gould’s Bach all of the time! That’s how it used to be. The...”
– Largehearted Boy: Book Notes - Diane Williams - “Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty”
Diane Williams will be at HWBC with Ben Marcus and Deb Olin Unferth in mere weeks! Monday, March 12. Mark your calendar; more info.
“For the third-annual A Taste of Home, food editor and chef Ruth Reichl and...”
– A Taste of Home - Flavorpill New York
Still a chance to nab tickets for Monday’s Taste of Home! Eat delicious food in the bookstore for a good cause.
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Two Boots Presents Americana Jamboree at Housing... →
Happy hour is back in a big way this week with a FREE boot-stompin’ concert presented by Two Boots. Our regular happy hour specials on beer and wine, plus Two Boots pizza, music from Odetta Hartman and Spirit Family Reunion, poetry, and more. Settle in for the whole night or just stop by. More info at the link above.
“A Public Space editor Brigid Hughes will join Graywolf Press as contributing...”
– Some news via Publisher’s Lunch. I love APS, and Graywolf, excited to see what comes out of this collaboration.
Submission guidelines for Cairn Press LLC →
Cairn Press says: “We are currently seeking remarkable, completed, fine-tuned fiction manuscripts. We prefer novels, but great short story collections are always welcome.”
I bet someone reading this blog has SOMETHING to send in. Click through for more info and good luck!
“The novelist’s corrections appear to be more literary than scientific. In...”
– Cormac McCarthy, Quantum Copy Editor - NYTimes.com
OMG. Cormac McCarthy edits physics books for fun.
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Book Stalker: “The Anti-Foodie Foodies: Has Food... →
bookstalker:
So my notes from this meta-ish “anti-foodie foodie” event at Housing Works Tuesday night are a bit nonsensical (“fetishization of eating,” what?), but I wanted to mention panelist Tracie McMillan’s new book: The American Way of Eating. In the book, Tracie records her attempts to uncover…
“This is basically what you get if you mix the library from Beauty and the Beast,...”
– Thanks Kim H.! Getting an email alert that there is a new Yelp review is always so very harrowing (I am aware we have no available outlets for our FREE WIFI, thanks) then it’s usually amazing, nice people like Kim H saying amazing, nice things. Thanks!
Housing Works Bookstore Cafe - SoHo -...
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Chiara Atik: June 16, 2012: Bloomsday in Dublin →
chiaraatik:
Lauren Leto are doing something crazy and we want you to join us.
The Plan:
1) Read Ulysses, by James Joyce
All thousand-something Modernist, difficult-to-get-through pages of it.
2) Meet Occasionally Over the Next Three Months to Discuss It
Over coffee? Over Guinness?
Over…
Perhaps the BEST idea ever? Perhaps.
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