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Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:29:24 -0400

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libraryjournal: Official invite to come, but here are the...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:51:29 -0400

Official invite to come, but here are the relevant details:

Library Journal & Tumblr Present

Set Phasers to Internet
an ALA tumblarian meet up
(with free drinks)

Saturday 6/29 7pm
Local 22
22 East Hubbard Street, Chicago

cosponsored by Togather

There will be a raffle. The event’s official hashtag is #laserfingers. BE THERE OR BE ON SOME OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORK. (Are there gifs there? I thought not.)

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GALLEYS 🌰

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:18:40 -0400

GALLEYS 🌰

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Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:02:00 -0400

Your Indie, DIY Guide To Creative Book Marketing | Co.Create: Creativity \ Culture \ Commerce

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 12:37:48 -0400

Your Indie, DIY Guide To Creative Book Marketing | Co.Create: Creativity \ Culture \ Commerce

"A certain lace dress I owned was not just a lace dress — it was a symbol of something I thought..."

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:58:38 -0400

“A certain lace dress I owned was not just a lace dress — it was a symbol of something I thought could be conveyed by what I wore, because I was too shy to convey it in speech, a trait that I believe to be not uncommon among the young.”

- In Which We Ignore Most Of The Sorrows - Home - This Recording

It’s here. #yoko

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 14:16:33 -0400

It’s here. #yoko

"A publisher ought to be no bigger than a pirate ship."

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 16:37:25 -0400

““A publisher ought to be no bigger than a pirate ship.””

- PANK Blog / On the Rumpus interview with Miracle Jones

Come celebrate LGBT lit tonight with OR and Jeanne Thornton....

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 14:46:06 -0400

Come celebrate LGBT lit tonight with OR and Jeanne Thornton. I’m really really excited about this!

"Hey New York City, what are you guys doing tomorrow night, like around 7:00 PM? I was probably going..."

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 15:46:21 -0400

“Hey New York City, what are you guys doing tomorrow night, like around 7:00 PM? I was probably going to sit quietly at home and read a book in my pajamas, but why do that when you could talk about books with a bunch of hot girls? Lambda Literary Award finalist Jeanne Thornton (The Dream of Doctor Bantam) and OR Books will be celebrating the winners and nominees of this year’s Lambda Literary Awards with a lovely get-together at our favorite local lady bar, The Dalloway.”

- Autostraddle — You Should Go: Lambda Literary Awards Nominees Mingle and Drink at the Dalloway

Tomorrow night, come to this thing I’m having!

FuzzySunset @ New Directions party

Fri, 31 May 2013 10:37:02 -0400

FuzzySunset @ New Directions party

The incomparable Courtney Andujar (whose Every Pug in NY tumblr...

Thu, 30 May 2013 15:33:21 -0400

The incomparable Courtney Andujar (whose Every Pug in NY tumblr was profiled in The Daily Dot today) and the genius that is Miracle Jones have combined forces for NACHO FRIEND, an illustrated ranking of the nachos of NYC. [Insert Thumbs Up Emoji Here]

"We twentysomethings — conditioned to be obsessed with finding and keeping a job — are good at..."

Tue, 28 May 2013 14:55:15 -0400

“We twentysomethings — conditioned to be obsessed with finding and keeping a job — are good at talking about work. We haven’t yet learned what comes after that.”

- Can Men Worry About ‘Having It All’ Too? - The Cut

"Duchamp made a powerful point. He told us that an artwork is what the artist decides. So, what is a..."

Tue, 28 May 2013 14:52:00 -0400

“Duchamp made a powerful point. He told us that an artwork is what the artist decides. So, what is a literary work? Well, it’s what the author decides. Me, you, my friends, the newspapers, the committee for good literary taste may or may not like it; that’s not relevant, because art can be ugly and yet be art. A literary work can be political or not political, and yet be a literary work. Should literature be political? Hell, who cares? It is political if the author thus decides, and it isn’t if the author so wishes it.”

- José Rodrigues dos Santos: Can Agatha Christie be political? | Books | guardian.co.uk

Hmm!

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Fri, 24 May 2013 17:21:05 -0400

Portrait of a Woman with Her Mouth Wide Open

Fri, 24 May 2013 10:35:41 -0400

orbooks:

Today’s NY Times presents the diminutive Medea Benjamin, mouth agape, surrounded by concerned, regretful-looking official men. Medea is the very image of the out-of-control harridan, a heckler, which is what the paper calls her. But to my mind, a heckler is someone who disrupts a gathering to call attention to herself: and instead, drawing on immense courage, the kind associated with unique acts of valor, Medea stands up in hostile environments and makes it known that she objects to what’s going on. She does so on behalf of the human community, on behalf of those too fearful or disenfranchised to speak. She’s inventive, daring, and full of humor. In the last year alone, she delivered a list of victims of U.S. assassinations to the suburban home of the (astonished) CIA director, and put it in his hands; led a march in Pakistan’s tribal areas; crashed a cozy gathering of Congressional aides and drone manufacturers…. Like her direct predecessor in activism, Emma Goldman, she has a thing for dancing (at one gathering she wore a large [pink] notice saying “Do not disturb: dancing.”).

After recently completely six hours of interviews with her for a forthcoming book—during which she never mentioned her plans for the Obama speech; the likelihood is that it was a spur-of-the-moment thing—Medea comes across clearly in my mind’s eye. She can’t be taller than 5’5”. She sits across the table from me under a bright light. Her gaze is steady; her hands are set precisely parallel to one another, palms flat on table—and her mouth is closed in a thin, determined line.
— John Oakes

@knguyen: People waiting for the Rain Room in the rain....

Thu, 23 May 2013 15:41:00 -0400

@knguyen: People waiting for the Rain Room in the rain. pic.twitter.com/gUhLSDRMTG

orbooks: A murder, perhaps two Lipsyte/Marcus/Lish/Schwartz

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:00:40 -0400

orbooks:

A murder, perhaps two

Lipsyte/Marcus/Lish/Schwartz

"Kelly Burdick has been named associate publisher of Melville House. He has been with the company..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 11:21:10 -0400

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Kelly Burdick has been named associate publisher of Melville House. He has been with the company since 2005 and was most recently executive editor. Besides founders and publishers Valerie Merians and Dennis Johnson, Burdick is the senior employee at Melville House.

“I remember his first day with us,” Johnson said. “He volunteered to help us at an event we were staging in the Great Hall at Cooper Union—an ‘anti-inauguration’ on the day of George Bush’s second inauguration. At that point, the company’s only employees were Valerie and me. We thought we couldn’t afford to hire anyone, but Kelly was so smart and so intuitive about publishing that we decided we couldn’t afford to let him go.”

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- Personnel Changes | Shelf Awareness

britticisms: Really loving this series of photographs from...

Mon, 20 May 2013 14:03:59 -0400

britticisms:

Really loving this series of photographs from Carrie Schneider’s “Reading Women” series. Above:

Sarah reading Zora Neale Hurston, Vicky reading Gloria Fuertes

Vanessa reading Nathalie Sarraute, Nuiko reading Henriette Renié

Alyssa reading Patti Smith, Yala reading Susan Sontag