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Stumbled upon this today, which nicely follows up yesterdays' post!
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Next time someone asks advice on getting published, I'm just recommending that they try 12th century Japan, so their first book comes out in style, like this:
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West Side BooksMind you, this novel first appeared around 100 years before this, in the year 1008 (about 600 years before the first European novel, Don Quixote, in 1605), and was already considered something of a treasured classic, we assume.
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Who were the real people in James Joyce’s Ulysses?
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“The ordinary is the proper domain of the artist,” said James Joyce once, “the extraordinary may be safely left to journalists.” This sentiment explains why he pursued the events of a single s...
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a beautiful collaboration.
Poetry "Children of Light" by Linda Hogan Music by Ke Nova Piano, Vocals by Ke Nova Engineered by Chip Reardin and Ke Nova Produced by Ke Nova and Chip Reard...
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we have those books that beg to be carried with...
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any old hippy activists out there? this is a book for you... Father's Day gift extraordinaire.
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Ken LogsdonFrom?
1 week agoWest Side BooksFrom the forthcoming publication noted in the post below! Bookshops: A Cultural History, by Jorge Carrion.
1 week agoIan JohnsonGreat sentiment!
7 days agoCan't wait for Jorge Carrion's Bookshops: A Cultural History to come out in English in October! As a perversely early teaser, here's an interview with the author: www.3ammagazine.com/3am/bookshops-interview-jorge-carrion/
Bookshops — An interview with Jorge Carrión -
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The bibliography about libraries is abundant: that of bookshops, in turn, is minimal. Departing from this fundamental difference, between their importance within academic tradition, one can establish ...
Saturday wanes. We adore our customers. Beer can bouquet tells the story.
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ahh. Paris Review!
Staff Picks: Jane Bowles, Soviet Poetry, Yasunari Kawabata, and More
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What the staff of The Paris Review is reading this week.
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Monday Miscellany but scenic mostly. Note please the art work by Daniel Lowenstein. Great stuff. Lively. Thanks Daniel!
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