It ultimately became a question of honesty: be generous of spirit, or hoard in the hopes of self-preservation. A question of accepting one’s limitations versus living in denial. None of which, of course, make you a terrible person. They just make you a terrible reader. I have a yearly tradition (one I’m sure many people [...]
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Why I Abandon My Books (and why you should, too)
By Jessica Freeman-Slade ⋅ January 26, 2012
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Friends: Please join us this Thursday, January 26th, for a book swap at KGB Bar (85 E. 4th St., b/w Bowery and 2nd Ave.), beginning at 7 pm, and celebrate– however belatedly– our relaunch with us. Come with a book (or several) that you’ve read but no longer want to keep, and swap with your [...]
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I am penitent. I’m sorry. I’m sorry I forgot to pick up your mail. I’m sorry I borrowed your shirt without asking. I am sorry that I never called. About last night, I’m sorry. I’m sorry I said that thing. I’m sorry that the thing I said had to be said. I am sorry about [...]
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When readers think critically about Herman Melville, they seem to think about the writer as often as his works. That’s not necessarily to say we read him biographically—although biography certainly has its place—but instead transcendentally, as an author whose approach and concerns stretch across his entire oeuvre. My Melville, for example, has always been a [...]
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Ben Marcus has made a career of exploring the mythic materiality of language. In early novels such as The Age of Wire and String and Notable American Women, he documents fantastic societies for whom language is an elemental power: at once a weapon, a weather pattern, and a chemical process. If characters wad their mouths [...]
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Last year we received such a great response, we had to ask again: What was your favorite book of the year? It’s a question that causes a range of emotion—especially for folks in publishing. Some people can name their favorite book instantly and have the words to describe why. Some can’t remember the last book [...]
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Jonathan Lethem, one of Brooklyn’s Brooklyniest bards, famously described his native borough thus: “Brooklyn is repulsive with novelists, it’s cancerous with novelists.” Evan Hughes’s recent book Literary Brooklyn: The Writers of Brooklyn and the Story of American City Life (Holt, $16) reminds us that it has always been so. On a cold but sunny afternoon [...]
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Maybe many people live somewhere in the distance between the lives they live and the lives they’d imagined; for me, this gap had become too big. I’d received tenure at an East Harlem middle school where I was an English teacher, and yet the thought of the life waiting ahead depressed me. I’d come here [...]
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