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14
May
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"The zombies in this text, unlike most of the undead I’ve encountered in popular culture, don’t just run around searching out brains to slurp up, they are in fact quite sentimental. They “wander to nostalgically charged sites from their former lives,” due to some instinct that is activated within them, an instinct akin to that of the homing pigeons who are “famous and fascinating for the particles of magnetite in their skulls: bits of mineral sensitive to the electromagnetic pulls and capable of directing [them], like the needle of a compass, homeward over vast and alien distances."

Mesha Maren reviews A Questionable Shape by Bennett Sims. (via therumpus)

Bennett is here next week with Fiona Maazel and Benjamin Hale! Join us on May 22 for Some Questionable Shapes.

(via prairielights)

14
May
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“New book Inferno, the latest in his celebrated series about fictional Harvard professor Robert Langdon, was inspired by top Italian poet Dante. It wouldn’t be the last in the lucrative sequence, either. He had all the sequels mapped out. The Mozart Acrostic. The Michelangelo Wordsearch. The Newton Sudoku. The 190lb adult male human being nodded his head to indicate satisfaction and returned to his bedroom by walking there. Still asleep in the luxurious four-poster bed of the expensive $10 million house was beautiful wife Mrs Brown. Renowned author Dan Brown gazed admiringly at the pulchritudinous brunette’s blonde tresses, flowing from her head like a stream but made from hair instead of water and without any fish in. She was as majestic as the finest sculpture by Caravaggio or the most coveted portrait by Rodin.” (via Don’t make fun of renowned Dan Brown - Telegraph) This is amazing. The caption to that photo is “Dan Brown’s new novel will no doubt be a bestseller, to the annoyance of critics.”

“New book Inferno, the latest in his celebrated series about fictional Harvard professor Robert Langdon, was inspired by top Italian poet Dante. It wouldn’t be the last in the lucrative sequence, either. He had all the sequels mapped out. The Mozart Acrostic. The Michelangelo Wordsearch. The Newton Sudoku. The 190lb adult male human being nodded his head to indicate satisfaction and returned to his bedroom by walking there. Still asleep in the luxurious four-poster bed of the expensive $10 million house was beautiful wife Mrs Brown. Renowned author Dan Brown gazed admiringly at the pulchritudinous brunette’s blonde tresses, flowing from her head like a stream but made from hair instead of water and without any fish in. She was as majestic as the finest sculpture by Caravaggio or the most coveted portrait by Rodin.” (via Don’t make fun of renowned Dan Brown - Telegraph)

This is amazing. The caption to that photo is “Dan Brown’s new novel will no doubt be a bestseller, to the annoyance of critics.”

14
May
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Buzzfeed’s 65 Books You Need To Read In Your 20s

Buzzfeed’s 65 Books You Need To Read In Your 20s

14
May
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largeheartedboy: “The Cocktail Chart of Film & Literature” print from Pop Chart Lab lists famous drinks from books and movies, complete with recipes. Bottoms up.

largeheartedboy:

“The Cocktail Chart of Film & Literature” print from Pop Chart Lab lists famous drinks from books and movies, complete with recipes.

Bottoms up.

13
May
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This Week at HWBC:

Tonight come to What is the Queer Novel? a reading and conversation from Sarah Schulman and Barbara Browning presented by Emily Books. Everyone’s first drink is free thanks to Togather!

Then on Wednesday come help launch Laura Lee Gulledge’s new graphic novel Will & Whit, with a reading, music, video shorts, and door prizes.

Thursday, Splitsider presents Laugh Track: Unconventional Comedy Careers in the Internet Age, a panel with comedians Julie Klausner, Chris Gethard, and Dave Hill hosted by Splitsider founding editor Adam Frucci.

Friday the Moth StorySLAM returns to Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, this time with the theme Envy. Tickets are $8 at the door.

Finally, our 30% off sale on art & design books continues through Friday!

10
May
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HWBC Weekly Roundup To read:Why Haruki Murakami translated The Great Gatsby. To watch:The first trailer for the film adaptation of August: Osage County.The New Lonely Island/Between Two Ferns video is great. To look at:Learn new words! The anatomy of a book.The Worst Room.Book covers reimagined as if they were by opposite-gendered authors. [image by Beowulf Sheehan - an event with Anne Carson, Gary Shteyngart, and Laurie Anderson via HWBC archives]

HWBC Weekly Roundup

To read:
Why Haruki Murakami translated The Great Gatsby.

To watch:
The first trailer for the film adaptation of August: Osage County.
The New Lonely Island/Between Two Ferns video is great.

To look at:
Learn new words! The anatomy of a book.
The Worst Room.
Book covers reimagined as if they were by opposite-gendered authors.

[image by Beowulf Sheehan - an event with Anne Carson, Gary Shteyngart, and Laurie Anderson via HWBC archives]

09
May
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Whale Tail Metal Art Bookends Free USA by KnobCreekMetalArts Slow day, so maybe we’ll put a whale on it. (via)

Whale Tail Metal Art Bookends Free USA by KnobCreekMetalArts

Slow day, so maybe we’ll put a whale on it. (via)

08
May
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"18) As you cross the street with your bag of new books, remember the first time your mother took you to a bookstore and told you to pick something out. To keep, not borrow. You were overwhelmed by choice and wonder. Remember how you pulled things off the shelf at random because every book was equally unknown and fresh and promising."

Rebecca Makkai, How to Shop at a Bookstore: An Easy 20-Step Guide for Authors | Ploughshares
08
May
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"He stared us all up and down, and said, “You guys realize this is a class right? You’re supposed to be learning to work a party. That’s basically all you do in publishing is go to parties."

Ami Greko gets schooled on the schmooze in ENCOUNTERS IN PUBLISHING » Slice Magazine
03
May
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“It’s exhilarating to encounter such unrestrained vehemence in a work by this controlled, intellectual author. Messud’s previous novels, albeit extraordinarily intelligent and well-crafted, are characterized by rationed or distant emotion. “The Woman Upstairs” is utterly different — its language urgent, its conflicts outsize and unmooring, its mood incendiary. This psychologically charged story feels like a liberation.”  —Liesl Schillinger on ‘The Woman Upstairs,’ by Claire Messud - NYTimes.com This book is so, so, so good. Read it.

“It’s exhilarating to encounter such unrestrained vehemence in a work by this controlled, intellectual author. Messud’s previous novels, albeit extraordinarily intelligent and well-crafted, are characterized by rationed or distant emotion. “The Woman Upstairs” is utterly different — its language urgent, its conflicts outsize and unmooring, its mood incendiary. This psychologically charged story feels like a liberation.” 

—Liesl Schillinger on ‘The Woman Upstairs,’ by Claire Messud - NYTimes.com

This book is so, so, so good. Read it.

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