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nickmiller:

After three years of work, my novel has finally been published!

It is available for the Kindle today and in paperback next week.

Get it now on Amazon!

Paulo Coelho is pronounced PAW-lu co-AY-u.

Paulo Coelho is pronounced PAW-lu co-AY-u.

(Source: vintageanchorbooks, via floodlite)

unwrinkled: Hunter S. Thompson.

unwrinkled:

Hunter S. Thompson.

Alone. Yes, that’s the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn’t hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.
Stephen King

(Source: accidentalism)

The Short List

fernandofrench:

The arduous task of whittling 131 titles down to five is finally complete. Here are the nominees for the first-ever One Book, One Tumblr:

  1. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
  2. The Death of a Beekeeper by Lars Gustafsson
  3. Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin
  4. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
  5. Extremely…

If you consider yourself a literature buff, you must go watch Woody Allen’s new movie, Midnight In Paris.

Fernando French: One Book, One Tumblr

My three:

  1. Everyman - Philip Roth
  2. Mao II - Don DeLillo
  3. Snow Country - Yasunari Kawabata

fernandofrench:

Everyone is doing it. Seattleites started the trend in 1998 and Chicagoans followed suit a few years later. It wasn’t long before the idea trickled through to other cities and they started doing it.

Then, a writer from Wired wondered: what if, instead of being bounded by the limits of a physical…

unwrinkled: Joyce Carol Oates.

unwrinkled:

Joyce Carol Oates.

Where’s Waldo?

Where’s Waldo?

(via betterbooktitles)

laphamsquarterly: From the always awesome Cabinet, on the typed pages used in The Shining.  Never one to stint on artistic integrity and veracity, Kubrick used no shortcuts for the relatively simple scene. As artists Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin discovered during recent research in the Kubrick archives in London, instead of having the sentence typed on only the few sheets seen by viewers, the director asked his secretary Margaret Warrington to type it on each one of the 500-odd sheets in the stack. What’s more, he also had Warrington type up an equivalent number of manuscript pages in four languages—French, German, Italian, Spanish—for foreign releases of the film. Which reminds us, our newest issue “Lines of Work” goes up online tomorrow, and our launch party is this Friday, March 18th at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe. 

laphamsquarterly:

From the always awesome Cabinet, on the typed pages used in The Shining. 

Never one to stint on artistic integrity and veracity, Kubrick used no shortcuts for the relatively simple scene. As artists Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin discovered during recent research in the Kubrick archives in London, instead of having the sentence typed on only the few sheets seen by viewers, the director asked his secretary Margaret Warrington to type it on each one of the 500-odd sheets in the stack. What’s more, he also had Warrington type up an equivalent number of manuscript pages in four languages—French, German, Italian, Spanish—for foreign releases of the film.

Which reminds us, our newest issue “Lines of Work” goes up online tomorrow, and our launch party is this Friday, March 18th at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe.