Posts tagged lit

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Best Animal Farm cover ever. (via Flipkart.com)

Best Animal Farm cover ever.

(via Flipkart.com)

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Claire Messud is not pulling punches. Zoom

Claire Messud is not pulling punches.

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Posted 1 month ago

Common Good Books in St Paul is running an amateur poetry contest. The 12 finalists are hanging from the ceiling on giant sheets of paper, and customers can vote for the winner.

I voted for both of these poems—I couldn’t decide.

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Posted 1 month ago
The problem was that talent couldn’t be willed into being. Ethan murmured something appropriate for each drawing he came to. It was like an extremely stressful game show called ‘Say The Right Thing, You Idiot.’

Meg Wolitzer, The Interestings

I couldn’t sleep last night so instead I stayed up with this book. Totally worth it.

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Posted 2 months ago
Read Instead: The fantastic Lorem Ipsem Books in Cambridge. Zoom

Read Instead: The fantastic Lorem Ipsem Books in Cambridge.

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Posted 4 months ago
As a parent, I strongly urge people to not serve opiates to their children. If anything, Who Could That Be at This Hour makes a very powerful case for not drugging children. Other children’s authors have expressed NO opinion on this—where is Beverly Cleary on this issue?
Daniel Handler on Fresh Air, aka the best radio interview in the history of the world.
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Posted 4 months ago

In which David Sedaris grosses Rashida Jones out on the topics of colostomy bags and amputees. And here I was thinking she was a nurse.

David: “As we were talking earlier, about people who are sexually attracted to amputees…”

Rashida: “NO! NO!”

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Posted 5 months ago
Books, disco, drinks. What indie will be first to put this on a t-shirt so I can buy it? PS not the official translation, but the translation of my heart. Zoom

Books, disco, drinks. What indie will be first to put this on a t-shirt so I can buy it?

PS not the official translation, but the translation of my heart.

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Posted 5 months ago
Buenos Aires bookstore in an old theater. The stage is a coffee shop and the boxes are reading nooks. Zoom

Buenos Aires bookstore in an old theater. The stage is a coffee shop and the boxes are reading nooks.

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Posted 6 months ago
Mas Puro Verso Librería in Montevideo, Uruguay. Zoom

Mas Puro Verso Librería in Montevideo, Uruguay.