February 2012
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“If you have some printed collateral that speaks to your brand”
– A clause in an actual email that an actual human being just sent to me.
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“No tribe has triumphed without a poet, and no poet has triumphed unless defeated...”
– Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence. Sinan Antoon’s translation for Archipelago Press.
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“In the thickets of language every creature is wild.”
– Ivan Vladislavić’s “Dictionary Birds”, The Loss LIbrary and Other Unfinished Stories.
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Hyperallergic writer reviews Will Kurtz's show →
mikeweissgallery:
“Paper People and Rude Shocks” By Thomas Micchelli
“Some shows are designed to shock, and you’d expect that one sporting the title Extra Fucking Ordinary would be among them. And you’d be right. But in a departure from a great many New York art exhibitions gleefully trafficking in…
This gentleman wrote a really quite excellent—as in well written, though also...
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Anonymous asked: I have an honest question--what does an "independent bookseller" do other than ring up books and read them? I am curious.
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“Meanwhile you have rolled yourself a cigarette, say, and inserted it with great...”
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“In the Electric Tram” by Robert Walser at the NYRblog, an excerpt from the recently released Berlin Stories, translated by Susan Bernofsky
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(Bonus: Bernofsky also translated Walser’s novel The Tanners, published by New Directions.)
Like I said on the twitter,...
If you're in agony waiting for Cesar Aira's new... →
The book is out and pretty great.
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