January 2011
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Jan 31st
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Jan 28th
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Jan 26th
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“As for the alligators — I swear to God, if an alligator walked into this...”
– Author Karen Russell in an interview with Jill at Powells.com about her new novel, Swamplandia!. We don’t think that alligator would stand a chance.
Jan 26th
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Jan 24th
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Jan 24th
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Jan 22nd
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Jan 21st
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“But mistakes are OK. They’re not something I really set out to make —...”
– Paper cut artist & author Nikki McClure, on mistakes in her intricate work. Read the rest of our interview with her.
Jan 21st
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Jan 19th
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Jan 19th
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Why secondhand bookstores smell good
Lignin, the stuff that prevents all trees from adopting the weeping habit, is a polymer made up of units that are closely related to vanillin. When made into paper and stored for years, it breaks down and smells good. Which is how divine providence has arranged for secondhand bookstores to smell like good quality vanilla absolute, subliminally stoking a hunger for knowledge in all of...
Jan 18th
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Jan 17th
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That moment when you're reading a book and you...
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Jan 16th
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Jan 14th
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Jan 13th
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You should really read this book. →
We can’t stop recommending The Fates Will Find Their Way, the debut novel from Hannah Pittard coming Jan. 25th from Ecco. We got a chance to talk with Pittard about the book’s first-person-plural point of view, how writers channel adolescence, and whale sharks. Keep an eye on this one.
Jan 13th
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Jan 12th
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Jan 12th
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Jan 11th
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Jan 7th
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Michiko Kakutani on the “revised” Huck Finn. “Haven’t we learned by now that removing books from the curriculum just deprives children of exposure to classic works of literature? Worse, it relieves teachers of the fundamental responsibility of putting such books in context — of helping students understand that “Huckleberry Finn” actually stands as a powerful indictment of...
Jan 7th
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“I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I...”
– Steve Martin, in an interview with Powells.com’s Jill Owens about his latest novel: An Object of Beauty.
Jan 7th
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“We are the people of the book. We love our books. We fill our houses with books....”
– Cory Doctorow (via shereadeverything)
Jan 7th
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“But my favorite of this genre [memoir] is Out of Sheer Rage by Geoff Dyer....”
– More Claire Dederer. We have a serious crush on this woman.
Jan 5th
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Jan 5th
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“Good morning, Portland! Up here in Seattle, we… well, we hate you. We...”
– Claire Dederer, author of Poser: My Life in 23 Yoga Poses. She’s guest-blogging over at Powells.com this week.
Jan 5th
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