Home Ask Archive Events
About

We are a nonprofit bookstore, cafe, and event space in downtown NYC. All proceeds from every show you attend and everything you buy, down to a record and a PBR, go directly to our mission of fighting AIDS and homelessness. 126 Crosby Street, NYC

Email us or ask us anything.

Twitter
Join Our Newsletter

Which newsletters are you interested in? Bookstore Café Newsletter (Twice a month)
Thrift Shop Newsletter (Twice a month)
AIDS Issues Update Blog (Once a week on Friday Mornings)

16
Apr
50 notes
notesfromtheroughfront: thecomposites: The Bird Man, Swamplandia!, Karen Russell A puffy white face on which, compared to the boots and the patchwork outfit, looked almost ordinary. The man was blinking violently down at me, caught in the light, his pale lips twisted in a grimace…This man’s age was impossible for me to guess. He was younger than my grandfather and older than my brother. His eyes were something terrifying…Bright eyes in a shingled face…The Bird Man frowned, which turned his long nose into a blade. Light caught on his whistle and in the soft, wet curls of hair around his ears, but his eyes were dull as gunmetal. He’d scratched his thin hair into a pompadour—it looked as though every wire were coming disconnected in his brain. (Suggested by phaunosfaunus) I love this blog!  According to the blog, they take images created using a commercially available law enforcement composite sketch software and descriptions of literary characters. All interesting suggestions considered. Include descriptive passages if you can. Check it out folks! This blogger, Brian Joseph Davis, will be at the next Adult Education on Tuesday, May 1. Free, 7PM, be there.

notesfromtheroughfront:

thecomposites:

The Bird Man, Swamplandia!, Karen Russell

A puffy white face on which, compared to the boots and the patchwork outfit, looked almost ordinary. The man was blinking violently down at me, caught in the light, his pale lips twisted in a grimace…This man’s age was impossible for me to guess. He was younger than my grandfather and older than my brother. His eyes were something terrifying…Bright eyes in a shingled face…The Bird Man frowned, which turned his long nose into a blade. Light caught on his whistle and in the soft, wet curls of hair around his ears, but his eyes were dull as gunmetal. He’d scratched his thin hair into a pompadour—it looked as though every wire were coming disconnected in his brain. (Suggested by phaunosfaunus)

I love this blog!  According to the blog, they take images created using a commercially available law enforcement composite sketch software and descriptions of literary characters. All interesting suggestions considered. Include descriptive passages if you can. Check it out folks!

This blogger, Brian Joseph Davis, will be at the next Adult Education on Tuesday, May 1. Free, 7PM, be there.

Share on: Facebook |
  1. filmes-no reblogged this from thecomposites
  2. alexamonster reblogged this from thecomposites
  3. lucky2b15 reblogged this from thecomposites
  4. nancymartira reblogged this from thecomposites and added:
    This looks remarkably like the image of The Bird Man that I carry in my brain (and my nightmares). Not pictured: oily,...
  5. askshyly reblogged this from housingworksbookstore
  6. neitherlandish reblogged this from thecomposites
  7. marybethschroeder reblogged this from housingworksbookstore
  8. mamaweeds reblogged this from thecomposites
  9. innermonoblogue reblogged this from housingworksbookstore and added:
    This is amazing!!!! New favorite blog. Not at all how I pictured the Bird Man, btw.
  10. housingworksbookstore reblogged this from notesfromtheroughfront and added:
    This blogger, Brian Joseph Davis, will be at the next Adult Education on Tuesday, May 1. Free, 7PM, be there.
  11. saltcitysundry reblogged this from aaknopf and added:
    Another book worth reading, and I hope they catch that awful Bird Man.
  12. aaknopf reblogged this from notesfromtheroughfront and added:
    Please send suggestions! Wow. Not how I imagined the Bird Man, but I’m impressed that The Composite is doing this.
  13. notesfromtheroughfront reblogged this from thecomposites and added:
    I love this blog! According...blog, they take images created using
  14. fmchubs reblogged this from thecomposites and added:
    book I’m currently reading...featured here. Upset because I haven’t met this character...
  15. This was featured in #Lit
  16. thecomposites posted this

Stuff We like

More Stuff We Like »