Heartstrung: Last Minute Valentine’s Day Gifts from Brooklyn Booksellers

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In honor of Valentine’s Day, Vol. 1 asked some of our favorite local indie booksellers to offer suggested purchases from their store for an acutely romantic customer. A book that’s great for the lovelorn, the broken-hearted, the lustful, the newly smitten, or those committed for life. It could be a book for one’s self or to give as a gift to your lover, your ex, or your crush. Here now, a variety of choices that are spot on for this upcoming day of sexual reckoning, either because they’re apt fodder for anti V-day sentiment, or because they’re foxy as all hell. Support these borough Cupids today and henceforth!

 

Morning Bites: John Jeremiah Sullivan fever, Ben Marcus on Other People, Tinseltown rare book nerds, and more

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The Los Angeles Review of Books talks about John Jeremiah Sullivan’s Pulphead, and then has a conversation with the author.

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A Quick Technical Note for the Weekend

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Posted by Tobias Carroll

Posting will be light this weekend, as we’re in the process of moving Vol.1 to a new host. The changes should be transparent, and there won’t be any need to update your bookmarks or feed reader settings. Indexing and Sunday Stories will return next weekend.

The only significant change is this: if you subscribe to our posts via email, you will need to resubscribe to our new mailing list next week.

Thanks for reading. See you on Monday.

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Afternoon Bites: Stephen Fry, Geoff Dyer on criticism, the Month of Letters challenge, and more

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“It seems to me that now there could be a real incentive to write negatively. I would be wary if this were to serve as any sort of inducement to write witty and damning phrases. The key thing is the sensitivity of the response and the accuracy of the judgment.” At The Guardian, Geoff Dyer and Anna Baddely discuss criticism. (via MobyLives)

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There Will Be Adam Wilson

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Posted by Jason Diamond

Adam Wilson’s Flatscreen (Harper Perennial) gets a trailer complete with Paul Dano, along with Stoya, Harper Perennial editor Michael Signorelli, and a guest appearance by Wilson as a pizza delivery guy who shows up just as the book club is descending into an orgy of Roman proportions. Read More →

Morning Bites: Illustrating Salinger, Ridley and Cormac, Bad Gatsby, Jon Cotner walks, K-Holes, and more

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Drawing Holden Caulfield and the people in his life.  (Via Literary Kicks)

  • Rachel Shukert talks about Oprah’s new Hasidic friends at Tablet.
  • Jon Cotner and crew walk through several NYC neighborhoods armed only with “one-line utterances that replace urban anonymity with affection” for BMW Guggenheim Labs.
  • The John Keats connection to now-retired NFL running back Rickey Williams, at The Classical.

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