Housing Works Bookstore Cafe: The Bookrageous BEA Bash on June 4 is so amazing it requires three bulleted lists.
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Books by authors who will be at or made a mixtape for the FREE party on June 4, Bookrageous BEA Bash with Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Small Demons, and FSG’s Work in Progress:
- The Astral
- Birds of a Lesser Paradise
- Black Hole Son
- Celebrity Chekhov
- Codex
- Commencement
- Emerald City and…
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
Jorge Luis Borges (via martinaboone)
jenn has never really wanted to write a book, until RIGHT NOW.
(via http://thetinhouse.tumblr.com/)
Proud to announce that the fabulous independent magazine and book publisher Tin House is now on Tumblr. You know what to do…
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As a culture, we’re torn between celebrating death and condemning it. Some celebrate its condemnation. And then there are the different levels of ironic appreciation of mortality—from witless mockery and sarcasm (birthday cakes decorated with roses of black frosting) to the kind of delightful, morbid whimsy of the Brothers Grimm, Vincent Price, Edward Gorey, and Tim Burton. I like to think my novel, The Coffins of Little Hope, is a serious reflection on this whimsy, the story told by an 83-year-old obituary writer uncommonly close to death in all its certainty. The only area of growth in her little Nebraska town is her particular area of work—what she calls the “death industry” (undertakers, florists, cemetery caretakers). I can imagine her keeping a collection—with a sense of both morbid fascination and professional pride—of tunes with coffins in their titles, or in their lyrics, like those I list here.
All the Hunger Games stuff reminds me of how much fun it was to record the MOCKINGJAY episode.
AAAAND WE’RE BACK
Ok, weird technological settings thing fixed! Welcome to the Bookrageous tumblr, where we’ll tell you all about the books we love (and possibly also the cats, donuts, beers, etc., that we love).
