December 2011
2 posts
“Most of us make it through to the other side of grief. We will never be returned...”
– Nina Sankovitch, Read All Day
“If I read our story backwards,
it’s about how I un-broke
your heart, and...”
– The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories by HitRecord & Joseph Gordon-Levitt
November 2011
1 post
October 2011
1 post
September 2011
1 post
Anthony Bourdain
Bestselling author, legendary chef and TV star Anthony Bourdain will have his own imprint at Ecco, acquiring three to five titles a year. Daniel Halpern, Ecco’s president and publisher, noted that the paperback edition of Kitchen Confidential “was one of the first books we published at Ecco as an imprint of HarperCollins a decade ago. As an informal (over the table) advisor to me during this time,...
August 2011
3 posts
J. Crew's Jenna Lyons: NY Mag Profile →
July 2011
1 post
June 2011
5 posts
Reading Your Way Out of Depression →
“take things more easily. don’t ask yourself so much whether this or that is good...”
– henry james, the portrait of a lady. (via paperbackgirl)
“People always think that happiness is a faraway thing,” thought Francie,...”
– Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
May 2011
3 posts
March 2011
5 posts
“There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how...”
– “The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story” by Richard Bach (via julie911)
February 2011
4 posts
January 2011
2 posts
November 2010
4 posts
October 2010
2 posts
“When we comfort others we comfort ourselves.”
– Katherine Center, GET LUCKY
Hope everyone had a great weekend!
June 2010
10 posts
A Grumpy Literary Agent...
slushpilehell:
Hello. I’ve queried more than 50 other agents with this and have gotten nowhere. Now I’m querying you.
You had me at hello.
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The Power of Literature
I truly believe that we can solve our problems and heal our souls through the simple act of reading. I am currently working my way through every Oprah Book Club selection. I read them all the first time around, when they were first announced, but I am curious to see how the changes in my life will affect my reactions to these texts.
As Barbara Kingsolver writes in THE POISONWOOD BIBLE,...
“Jennifer Egan’s aim (in A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD) is not so much to...”
– Newsweek article on Jennifer Egan
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Deception or just clever book marketing? →
Vanity Presses Say Stigma's Gone →
May 2010
15 posts
New York Times article on BEA →
