“Prior to him, I sold mostly to women. The men used to come in here and stand around, trying to look cool. I used to say to them, what the fuck? Why don’t you read? Or, I would give the girl a book, and tell her to read it to the poor bastard.”
I love Jim!
Junot Diaz: “Eventually everything I have gets read. But naturally I buy more than I can read, so there is always at least a hundred-book margin between what I own and what I’ve read. What’s cool is that I’ve caught up a couple of times, and this year I intend to catch up again. But then I’ll buy too much and the race starts again.”
- What do our libraries say about us? It’s a question the Book Bench has explored in detail in the past. The answer we came up with is: A lot.Leah Price’s new volume, “Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books,” presents photographs of the libraries of thirteen authors—including Wood and his wife, Claire Messud—alongside interviews about their collections, their most prized titles, and their reading habits. Click through for more images and text from Price’s new book: http://nyr.kr/tI4OBx
(Source: thoughtcatalog.com)
My favorite place in Washington, DC.
I discovered Capitol Hill Books today in Eastern Market. I fell in love as soon as I walked into the dusty little shop. The stacks and piles of books, the semi-organized chaos, the the sweet elderly woman working the desk warmed my heart. It’s a charming, dizzying dream of a bookshop.
I purchased 4 books:
1. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
2. Eva Luna - Isabelle Allende
3. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto - Chuck Klosterman
4. The Book of Drinking - John Doxat
apparently, educated/successful latinas don't make good tv...
Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez spoke at Butler University when I was a freshman back in 2007. SHE WAS GREAT! She was really passionate about the issue of Latina/os being represented positively in the media. As a fan of her and her books, I think this is ridiculous…
A character with a good job had become unemployed. The same character, who previously had a fiancé, was now screwing strangers in airport bathrooms. A Mexican-American character whose family has been in New Mexico for centuries is suddenly a Central American immigrant. A black character is no longer a lesbian and possibly no longer black; a lightskinned black character whose mom is Puerto Rican and dad is Dominican is changed into an “African-American” who is described as “a big girl wearing a flowing muumuu…” In an opening scene, she is “enjoying a heavy make out session. She rolls over revealing her pint-size boyfriend, Juan, inside her muumuu.”
Read more: http://jezebel.com/5719045/how-hollywood-is-fucking-up-the-dirty-girls-social-club#ixzz19M6NBwfT
