March 2009
23 posts
literature in lieu of tour guide →
this is a great read for those of you gearing up for travels this spring and summer. i’m headed to paris and london in early may and can’t wait to read these books in tandem. thank you ryan for the article!
What should I read next? →
booksarebetterthanboys:(via itsonlylife:bowlingalleylawyer)
book swap roll call:
bailey: paperbackgirl
erik: thebrewerpatriot
meaghan: meaghano
halle: crazyonyou
jenna: jennabee
ryan: thebronzemedal
paul: berezina
sophie: sleepanddream
i’m psyched with what i came away with: a woody allen novel for michael orell, eat pray love, a book of murakami short stories, and no one belongs here more than you by miranda july.
listen up NYC literati
this month’s book swap is tomorrow night. 7pm at art bar, 52 8th avenue between jane and west 4th. i’ll be getting there early again to stake out some space, email me if you’re interested in helping claim some couches around 6pm.
nicholas hughes, son of sylvia plath commits... →
BBC NEWS | Rare project saves Hemingway papers →
youarenotilliterate:
An important collection of papers belonging to the American writer Ernest Hemingway has been saved for posterity, thanks to a unique joint rescue mission involving communist Cuba and the United States.
confessional
sometimes after reading successive dark, heady books i like to lighten things up with something fluffy. the downside to this is subway judgement. today i was furtively reading a sophie kinsella book on the C train and when i went to get off at my stop, dropped it and it slid across the floor of the car. i had to claim it at someone’s feet. shame.
“once it has taken root in your heart, hatred is the most difficult thing in the...”
– haruki murakami, the wind-up bird chronicle.
“hatred is like a long, dark shadow. not even the person it falls upon knows...”
– haruki murakami, the wind-up bird chronicle.
2008 national book critics circle award winners →
Fiction Winner: Roberto Bolano’s 2666
Poetry Winners:: August Kleinzahler, Sleeping It Off in Rapid City, Farrar, Strauss and Juan Felipe Herrera, Half the World in Light
Criticism Winner: Seth Lerer
Children’s Literature Winner: A Reader’s History: Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter
Biography Winner: Patrick French, The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul.
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“what i’m trying to say is this: a certain kind of shittiness, a certain...”
– haruki murakami, the wind-up bird chronicle.
“results aside, the ability to have complete faith in another human being is one...”
– haruki murakami, the wind-up bird chronicle.
national book critics circle awards →
i’m going to check this out, email me if you’re interested.
“a life without pain: it was the very thing i had dreamed of for years, but now...”
– haruki murakami, the wind-up bird chronicle.
“the point is, not to resist the flow. you go up when you’re supposed to go...”
– haruki murakami, the wind-up bird chronicle.
“yes, i suppose what i am saying does sound very general,” said malta kano....”
– haruki murakami, the wind-up bird chronicle.
reading list this week
the wind-up bird chronicle by murakami
against interpretation: and other essays by susan sontag
“we can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another...”
– haruki murakami, the wind-up bird chronicle.