December 2011
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What the Book →
Shelve your opinions.
Please respond to the statements on the following pages. Your responses contribute to an ongoing conversation about the evolution of the book.
HERE —» www.whatthebook.org
This site was produced in conjuction with the AIGA “50 Books/50 Covers” annual design exhibition which showcases excellence in book design.
Book, (bůk), n. [A.Sax, boc, a book, originally a...
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November 2011
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Why I Feel Bad for the Pepper-Spraying Policeman,... →
Why This Is The Most Iconic Image Of Occupy... →
Criminal Justice Petition: Police Pepper-Spray... →
At Occupy Berkeley, Beat Poets Has New Meaning -... →
Housing Works Bookstore Cafe: Readers confirmed... →
housingworksbookstore:
Thursday, November 10, 3PM, marathon reading of Bartleby, the Scrivener at the public atrium at 60 Wall Street (near Zuccotti Park). More readers to come. All are welcome to listen and/or read; if you want to just show up we’ll have sections available to read. Organized by Justin Taylor,…
October 2011
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The Beauty of Web-First Workflows (for Books)
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The Beauty of Web-First Workflows (for Books) View more presentations from Hugh McGuire
Presentation at Books in Browsers 2011.
August 2011
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June 2011
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May 2011
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“The hapless theaters still depend on concession sales to such a degree that a...”
– The dying of the light - Roger Ebert’s Journal good article on yet another industry stepping on its own feet.
NEW DIRECTIONS PUBLISHING: Brand New Lawrence... →
newdirectionspublishing:
In the ND office today, we are coveting Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s What Is Poetry?, a new collection of aphorisms in free verse just published this April by Anansi Press in Canada. What is Poetry? is a gorgeous limited edition hardcover with full-color artwork by acclaimed visual artist and…
April 2011
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“The Guatemala that forms the backdrop of a portion of this novel is a...”
– An easter egg, or sorts, from the copyright page of the 1992 paperback edition of Francisco Goldman’s novel Long Night of White Chickens.
“It was a gracious piece that liberally invoked one of the touchstones of the...”
– artforum.com / scene & herd
March 2011
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February 2011
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January 2011
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WatchOpen Eyes: Lebanon’s Missing
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Last weekend, I saw Joel Coen walking down the...
December 2010
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“While he sat, absorbed in his own recitation, I bent down and kissed him again...”
– From the third volume of Your Face Tomorrow, by Javier Marias. This is the end of a scene with Jaime and his father, who is aging and near death, and, as is often the case, can remember the past vividly, yet the present only vaguely.
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“Before we go any further here, has it ever occurred to any of you that all this...”
– From William Gaddis’s 1975 novel, JR
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“Have you ever wondered why my essays are so much more intelligent than I am?...”
– Susan Sontag, as quoted in Edmund White’s memoir City Boy
October 2010
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“As you know, if I were standing at the beginning of time, with the possibility...”
– Martin Luthor King Jr., Excerpted from the April 3rd, 1968 “I’ve been to the mountaintop” sermon. From the Library of the Americas American Sermons collection.
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“Parodying without taste or skill. Very near the limits of coherence.
Said...”
– David Markson, from The Last Novel
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September 2009
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If New Media is a Giant Killer, Will Independent... →
True Tales of Conversational Vengeance (Pynchon... →
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Rearview: Lester Bangs on the death of John Lennon →