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”Finally, one wonders why epigraphs are always at the beginning of the book. Some stories end and make you want to hold the book to your chest and absorb it directly into your very soul. How moving it would be to me to finish a book and turn the page, sad that it’s all over and read an epigraph that reflects on all that’s come before.
Andrew Tutt, writing on epigraphs today in The Millions.
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Dave Eggers: From ‘staggering genius’ to America’s conscience
Interview with Rachel Cooke in this weekends Observer.
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What a great idea! A WPA poster from the 1930s, via booklover, bugseatbooks, and lotusohm.
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”I can’t imagine what it will be like for future generations not to experience getting to know someone by scanning their bookshelves, learning, by their lovingly worn condition, which novels they read over and over and over, and, by their perfectly unbroken spines, which their best intentions never quite got them to. Finding out that sometimes they needed a good mystery or thriller, or that they went through a serious Faulkner phase by spotting all those matching Vintage paperback editions lined up in a row.
thebronzemedal, in reaction to Kevin Hartnett’s article on bookshelves
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”A chief virtue of digital books is said to be their economical size—they take up no space at all!—but even a megabyte seems bulky compared to what can be conveyed in the few cubic feet of a bookshelf. What other vessel is able to hold with such precision, intricacy, and economy, all the facets of your life?
Kevin Hartnett, writing in In Our Parent’s Bookshelves for The Millions (via thebronzemedal)
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February reading list
January was slow going, and February’s not looking too good, either. It’s been a busy time at work, and I’ve been trying (not so successfully, sadly) to get more writing done. That being said, here’s where I stand:
Fiction
- Annabel Scheme — finished!
- Tainaron — finished!
- NEW The Things They Carried — in progress
- The Yiddish Policeman’s Union
- What is the What
- Best Stories from the Indian Classics
- And You Shall Know Our Velocity!
- Love in the Ruins
Nonfiction
- The Portable MFA in Creative Writing — finished!
- Sickness Unto Death — in progress
- Writing Down the Bones — in progress
- The Artful Edit
Extra: I received the first issue of my Oxford American subscription, and love it!
So that’s three books in progress at the same time, which isn’t really all that unusual for me. Also I had to add The Things They Carried for a class I’m taking, making that the third time I’ve had to read the book as an assigned text. O’Brien is fine with me, but could a professor assign In the Lake of the Woods instead? That would be great.
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January reading list
I received many books for Christmas, plus I already had a bunch sitting on my bedside table. Here’s where I am so far.
Fiction
- Annabel Scheme — finished!
- Tainaron — in progress
- The Yiddish Policeman’s Union
- What is the What
- Best Stories from the Indian Classics
- And You Shall Know Our Velocity!
- Love in the Ruins
Nonfiction
- The Portable MFA in Creative Writing — finished!
- Sickness Unto Death — in progress
- Writing Down the Bones
- The Artful Edit
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”A single book struggles to balance on its spine; it pines for neighbors. Keep as many books as you have room for.
Mandy Brown, Ways of reading
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”A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of the West or in the jungles of the East. Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning’s flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself,—and not a taper lighted at the hearth-stone of the race, which pales before the light of common day.
Thoreau, “Walking” (via captives, via fyeahthoreau)
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”My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.
Abraham Lincoln (via quote-book, via bookscakesnkisses, via booklover)
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Terrific cover for a terrific book. A behind-the-scenes look at its creation is here. (via Snarkmarket)
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”Libraries raised me. I don’t believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries, because most students don’t have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.
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Penguin repackages the classics, including Wuthering Heights, The Picture of Dorian Grey, Tess of the D’Ubervilles, Cranford, Jane Eyre and Sense and Sensibility. Jane Smiley writes:
They are beautiful, they are tactile, covered in cloth with embossed designs. When I invite my friends over, they look at the covers, flip them over, feel the deckle-edged pages, open them to see the typeface. One friend, busy and involved with the newest of new media, at once imagines herself reclining on a brown leather couch and reading “Jane Eyre” (578 pp., $20) at her leisure — 26 ounces, black covers embossed with shiny red leaves, a red ribbon bookmark twinkling from the bottom edge.
(via Jacket Copy)
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this is how I want to camp.
sweethomestyle:Camping (via redmann)
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“These Machines Kill Fascists” designed by You and Me, The Royal We
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ADA ad designed by Jeseok Yi
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where do I get trunks like that??
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