February 2012
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Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto and State of Wonder and champion of independent bookstores, rocks on the Colbert Report.
Feb 22nd
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Feb 21st
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Feb 17th
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“GREENWOOD, IN—Sitting in a quiet downtown diner, local hospital administrator...”
– Area Eccentric Reads Entire Book on The Onion (via millionsmillions)
Feb 16th
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Feb 16th
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Feb 16th
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Feb 14th
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Feb 14th
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Feb 14th
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Feb 9th
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Feb 7th
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Feb 7th
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“You must write every single day of your life… You must lurk in libraries and...”
– Ray Bradbury (via doubledaybooks)
Feb 6th
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Feb 3rd
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Feb 3rd
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Feb 2nd
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Feb 1st
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January 2012
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Jan 31st
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Jan 28th
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Jan 28th
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Jan 27th
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Jan 26th
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Jan 23rd
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Jan 14th
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Jan 13th
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“I was not afraid of horror, I was afraid of beauty, of what it could do to me if...”
– Vanessa Veselka, Zazen (via redlmnd)
Jan 12th
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Jan 10th
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Jan 7th
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Jan 7th
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Jan 5th
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Jan 5th
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Jan 3rd
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Jan 2nd
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December 2011
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“I am thinking tonight, as I address this unenviable task, of Flannery O’Connor,...”
– Via Unsaid, from the wonderful Padgett Powell’s Craft Talk without Craft, originally presented to the MFA Creative Writing Program of Columbia University in September, 2010.
Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 20th
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Dec 19th
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“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think...”
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (via solipsism2)
Dec 17th
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“If it was a belief in astrology, say, which is based on the same mentality as...”
– Christopher Hitchens, from his 2007 Powells.com interview
Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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Housing Works Bookstore Cafe: Surprisingly, I am... →
housingworksbookstore: In which Dustin, the least grumpy person I know, becomes gloriously and articulately rankled at Farhad Manjoo. Read the whole thing. towirr: A gentleman named Farhad Manjoo just posted a proudly contrarian article on Slate explaining why independent bookstores are not only irrelevent…
Dec 15th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 7th
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Dec 7th
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Dec 6th
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Dec 2nd
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