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Loving our new Flying Elephant swag packed up and ready for...

Thu, 23 May 2013 11:26:49 -0400

Loving our new Flying Elephant swag packed up and ready for #BEA2013! Come visit us at booth #1509! #giveaways

Happy Birthday, @EoinColfer! #authorbirthday

Tue, 14 May 2013 12:59:22 -0400

Happy Birthday, @EoinColfer! #authorbirthday

“There followed a pause—hundreds of people in front of her shifting likes the bits in a kaleidoscope...

Wed, 08 May 2013 12:26:55 -0400

“There followed a pause—hundreds of people in front of her shifting likes the bits in a kaleidoscope not yet settled—and suddenly Carmen felt herself tumbling into a vast and endless absence. It was as cold as midnight yet bright with the sun.”

Read more beautiful prose from Ann Bauer in THE FOREVER MARRIAGE, now available in paperback!

“Studying her face, patient and gentle, youthful today as...

Thu, 02 May 2013 15:15:14 -0400

“Studying her face, patient and gentle, youthful today as when he first met her, he could remember the possibilities he’d written for them.”—BEAUTIFUL FOOLS: The Last Affair of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald on sale today! http://goo.gl/2gGG0

Thanks to @strandbookstore and Judith Thurman for participating...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:31:00 -0400

Thanks to @strandbookstore and Judith Thurman for participating in a wonderful event last night discussing Robert Seidman’s MOMENTS CAPTURED. http://goo.gl/LKcQF

The Chicago Tribune’s “Books Today” August 9th, 1964 entry on Robert...

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:05:11 -0400

The Chicago Tribune’s “Books Today” August 9th, 1964 entry on Robert Murphy’s The Pond, which we’re reading today in observance of International Children’s Book Day.

A very HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our fearless leader, Peter Mayer! Did...

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:31:54 -0400

A very HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our fearless leader, Peter Mayer! Did you know that he started The Overlook Press out of an apple shed? Learn more here: #publishing #books #indiepress

It’s SPRING! Shouldn’t we be able to read books in a...

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:45:30 -0400

It’s SPRING! Shouldn’t we be able to read books in a grassy field this weekend?

Rap Game Milton Glaser

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:58:57 -0500

Rap Game Milton Glaser

Happy Birthday, Charles Darwin! “A man who dares waste one...

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 13:02:28 -0500

Happy Birthday, Charles Darwin! “A man who dares waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”

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Wed, 30 Jan 2013 13:42:21 -0500

Tonight at 9pm ET, @NovaPBS premieres "Who Killed Lindbergh's Baby," featuring CEMETERY JOHN author Robert Zorn: http://bit.ly/WBzlFw

“The unnamed main character, a 63 year old street dude,...

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 11:18:17 -0500

“The unnamed main character, a 63 year old street dude, is admirably, deeply drawn. A massively intelligent and probable schizophrenic who lives under a bridge, spouts French, algebraically calculates when social security will catch up to him, and uses words like temerarious. It’s a choppy, but poetic, read because Unnamed speaks just like my missus: in big fat, run-on gibberish. ‘Pseudo-senility this ain’t. All too aware. Dementia in reverse. The floridity of your vegetative process. Confusion as regards sedulity.’ Feels Beat, right? Just when readers might despair that this is an incoherent mess, Nisbet sets a powerful hook by having his nameless character accept $5000 in an envelope. Turns out he’s a hit man who literally measures hits in martinis. Push through the first 20 pages; your reward is a rollicking, if unclean-feeling, experience.”

Jim Nisbet’s OLD AND COLD is a certified “Book for Dudes.” Just don’t forget to pack a dictionary. (via Library Journal)

We know how to throw a holiday party!

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:13:54 -0500

We know how to throw a holiday party!

Outside Adventures with WHO SHOT THE WATER BUFFALO author Ken...

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 09:59:43 -0500

Outside Adventures with WHO SHOT THE WATER BUFFALO author Ken Babbs via VICE.

Basically, Babbs lives in a museum. It’s funny that the guy who always played the lighthearted counterweight to Kesey is now the Prankster’s myth builder, spending his days among his artifacts, spouting off quotes that he attributes to Kesey—even though I’m pretty sure he makes them up on the spot.

Over at Page Views, Alex Nazaryan reviews the new DEADLINE...

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 11:49:05 -0500

Over at Page Views, Alex Nazaryan reviews the new DEADLINE ARTISTS.

In evidence here is some of the finest journalism in the American cannon, at once celebrating, flogging and observing the varieties of mankind. Some of it – like John Steinbeck’s reporting from the Okie camps of California – was indeed written when there were more newspapers and more people to read them. But much here is of our own day and age – Jim Dwyer in the New York Times on the fight to survive in the burning Twin Towers; Jeffrey Zaslow writing on Randy Pausch’s “last lecture” in the Wall Street Journal – reminding that there is still great journalism to be had, and whether you read it on your iPad or in print does not matter much.

Did you decorate for the holidays yet? We love this bookish...

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 14:55:19 -0500

Did you decorate for the holidays yet? We love this bookish wreath! #recycle #bookart

Robert Seidman’s MOMENTS CAPTURED is on sale today!...

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 15:03:58 -0500

Robert Seidman’s MOMENTS CAPTURED is on sale today! #bookbirthday http://goo.gl/Fo230

From Booklist: The life and exploits of pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge are examined in delectable detail in“Seidman’s engrossing novel. The realities of Muybridge’s professional tasks and historic achievements are set against the personal temptations of Holly Hughes, the fictional lover and muse Seidman invents. An internationally acclaimed dancer, Hughes is a zealously outspoken proponent of free love and women’s

rights, and her passion for both spurs an equally intense drive in Muybridge to break new ground in stopaction

photographic techniques. He is given the perfect opportunity by California’s grandiose former governor, Leland Stanford, when Stanford accepts the challenge to provide photographic proof that his champion racehorse gallops at such a pace that he is temporarily airborne. Although Muybridge’s creativity and ambition are instrumental in transforming photography from an exclusively static medium into motion pictures, his personal life devolves into sordid scandal when he murders Hughes’ former lover, in a variation of the crime Muybridge actually did commit. Seidman combines brisk pacing and bold passions to dynamically illuminate a crucial chapter in America’s artistic and technological history.”

explore-blog: I STILL LOVE NY, a clever and wonderful take on...

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 13:32:48 -0500

explore-blog:

I STILL LOVE NY, a clever and wonderful take on the iconic Milton Glaser logo celebrating hurricane recovery, with 100% of proceeds going towards Sandy relief.

(↬ Swiss Miss)

Today is Guy Fawkes Day. Maybe it’s about time you learned...

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 13:31:32 -0500

Today is Guy Fawkes Day. Maybe it’s about time you learned the history behind those V for Vendetta masks that seem to be all the rage these days? Failing that, check out this Motherboard interview with HACKING THE FUTURE author Cole Stryker about why online anonymity matters.

The Believer Logger: "Pigs don’t have to pay rent in a barn because they’re the ones that are getting butchered." An interview with Cole...

Sat, 20 Oct 2012 10:15:17 -0400

The Believer Logger: "Pigs don’t have to pay rent in a barn because they’re the ones that are getting butchered." An interview with Cole...:

believermag:

I met Cole Stryker at a secret party last summer, just before his first book came out, called Epic Win for Anonymous. Cole described Epic Win as a cultural study of trolling, 4chan, memes and the hacker darlings known as Anonymous. Invitees were asked not to bring a guest, not to tweet,…