May 2012
17 posts
shoutout to Replacements, Limited, Greensboro, NC. buy ALL of your silver & china from them http://t.co/RvpwkZcR #p2 #LGBT #Amendment1 #p2b — Y-Love (@ylove)
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Penguin Pintail Sends The Best of Their Canadian... →
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Libri antichi online - Studio bibliografico... →
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Canadian whisky: our home and native hooch - The... →
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Weekend Whiskey: CANADIAN WHISKY: The Portable... →
Awesome post.
A week ago I would have said I didn’t know very much about Canadian whisky. I don’t think I’ve ever bought a bottle, and it’s possible I’d never tasted it neat. And even then, I would have been overstating my knowledge, since most of what I thought I knew was wrong, as I learned by reading Davin de Kergommeaux’s magisterial new book, Canadian...
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Message in a Bottle: Art Books/Book Arts →
mercerislandbooks:
Delayed by delightful events, it’s here at last: a new post highlighting art from around the world that incorporates books as objects.
Alicia Martín is a Madrid-based installation artist who’s been described as “book-obsessed.” She operates on a grand scale, and her work tends to emphasize…
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A story about the book industry I would actually...
bookavore:
I am sure in every industry it is the same: nobody likes to read what non-industry reporters have to say about what they do for a living. It is almost always painful. This seems to be a special problem for the book industry. By their nature, journalists are likely to want to think about how the printed word is doing, and by its nature, the book industry is likely to read articles...
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April 2012
21 posts
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Chronicling House of Anansi Press At the London... →
I’m enjoying the series on a year of Anansi.
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A twenty-year publishing veteran, Rappaport got his start in the book industry as a clerk at Montreal’s gay and lesbian bookstore, Librairie L’Androgyne, and within a few years became co-owner. He went on to complete the Canadian summer publishing workshop when it was held in the mountain resort of Banff. Rappaport landed his first New York City publishing job in the production department at...
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Bernie Finkelstein, who steered careers of... →
Working with Bernie on his book has been one of the memorable experiences of my short career in English Canadian publishing.
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Art In FLUX Harlem Pop-Up Gallery, May 2-24 →
Hiroshi Jashiki, City Scape Times Square
Bernie Finkelstein's book party at the Supermarket →
It was a great time at the Supermarket on Monday evening. I got to introduce Bernie to his longtime friends and admirers.
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Book Igloo | Colossal →
Random House's "Rep 3.0" Makes Sales People Into... →
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George R.R. Martin on writing women
You don't say?
George Stroumboulopoulos: There's one thing that's interesting about your books. I noticed that you write women really well and really different. Where does that come from?
George R.R. Martin: You know, I've always considered women to be people.
Next Event Monday, April 23 at 7pm! | First Person... →
Spread the word about Harlem’s newest reading series at the Shrine.
March 2012
48 posts
“Rice-Gonzalez’s very honest book is the story of Chulito’s coming-out process in...”
– ‘Chulito’ is out in the Bronx
I could be very happy, except that I am broke
Ain’t it the truth
poetrysince1912:
Dear Harriet Monroe—
Spring is here. —and I could be very happy, except that I am broke. Would you mind paying me now instead of upon publication for those so stunning verses of mine which you have? I am become very, very thin, and have taken to smoking Virginia tobacco.
Wistfully yours,
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