The relocated Seminary Co-op Bookstore @uchicago. Inviting light, peekaboo windows in the stacks, space to read. (Plus, a graphic novel section.)
The hobbit in me misses the basement, but it must be nice to roam around the stacks without hitting your head on a steam pipe.
(via uchicagomag)
Nora Ephron’s Final Act by her son By JACOB BERNSTEIN…
“The play “Lucky Guy,” Nora Ephron’s last piece of work, is about a journalist who kept striving to do his best work even as he was dying of cancer. He was her inspiration to do the same.”
Read here: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/magazine/nora-ephrons-final-act.html
“She told me that….whatever happened, she hoped my brother and I would lead the kind of lives where we did stuff big enough to occasionally say, “Wow, I wish Mom was around for this.”
(Source: vintageanchorbooks, via aaknopf)
“I really think I write about everyday life. I don’t think I’m quite as odd as others say I am. Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that’s what makes it so boring.”
—Edward Gorey
Check out Quote Investigator’s fascinating post about unearthing the true origins of the famed flash fiction attributed to Hemingway
Looks like it started with several newspaper ads, starting in 1906:
For sale, baby carriage; never been used. Apply at this office.
Creative minds took it from there.
(And credit to Hari Kunzru for publicizing the post!)
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André Aciman, Alibis: Essays on Elsewhere
Looking forward to seeing him tonight, in conversation with Teju Cole at McNally Jackson
Only in Ireland — which, not coincidentally, is home to the subject of this quiz.
Didn’t you know? Editors drink from this bottle regularly.
“The world is changing, but I am not changing with it. There is no e-reader or Kindle in my future. My philosophy is simple: Certain things are perfect the way they are. The sky, the Pacific Ocean, procreation and the Goldberg Variations all fit this bill, and so do books. Books are sublimely visceral, emotionally evocative objects that constitute a perfect delivery system.”
—Joe Queenan, My 6,128 Favorite Books
Joe Queenan, FTW.
I’m going to take this opportunity to recommend John Jeremiah Sullivan’s article on Michael Jackson, “Back in the Day,” in GQ.
Essential reading.
(Source: talkindangerbaby, via rosepalazzolo)
Mark Helprin is at our warehouse signing approximately one billion books for YOU! Out October 2, check your local bookstore for signed copies of IN SUNLIGHT AND IN SHADOW. (Taken with Instagram)
Mark Coatney, take note.
(And yes, I’m excited too.)
I sat by that stroller and called out her name for three minutes: “Julia, Julia, Juuulllliiiiiiaa.” But she wouldn’t emerge. Finally this happened.
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Las Tortillaaaaas!
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Groucho Marx and Marlene Dietrich.
