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#to kill a mockingbird #the hobbit #lit #catcher in the rye #atlas shruggedYou are entitled to enjoy this video. We hope you derive selfish happiness from it.
Another great archival interview with swell graphics from Blank on Blank!
Rand was a 1958 National Book Awards Fiction finalist for Atlas Shrugged. Learn more about Ayn Rand here.
And here are a few more Blank on Blank videos of other National Book Award Winners and Finalists: Maya Angelou, Ray Bradbury, John Updike
(Written by Nina Sabak and Monique Briones)
I’ve been stopping the children from falling over the cliff in this goddam field of rye for more than 50 years now and, frankly, I’m bored. How come Scout gets the special treatment? My kid sister Phoebe is brighter than she is. I get so sick and tired of doing this that I’m just tempted to let some of them go. Scout is lucky. She gets to grow up ‘n all. Me, I’m a goddam teenager forever.
Mockingbird, like Uncle Tom before it, often strikes me as a form of literary ointment for white guilt, meant to soothe outbreaks of conscience while dispelling perceptions of how pervasive white supremacy is.
If that magical bedtime story backfires, here are some literary pillows that are perfect for sleepy parents.
Book pairings from Buzzfeed’s “24 Books You Should Read Now, Based On Your High School Favorites”
Guardian Books shares “The 100 best novels written in English.”
The wonderful Tiphanie Yanique (whose debut novel Land of Love and Drowning is out now) presided over our Literary Pictionary event at Lit Crawl on 9/13. Here are some highlights from the event.
Thanks to everyone who came out. You can support Lit Crawl by using discount code LITCRAWL at Out of Print (you’ll get free shipping, and Out of Print will donate 30% of the profits).
Join us on Wednesday for a screening of The Residue Years: the Documentary by Mitchell S. Jackson.
NPR profiles the rappers-turned-publishers of hip-hop lit.
Check out Eliot Schrefer’s Tedx talk “Getting Animals into View”
A former National Book Award Finalist, Schrefer’s new book, Threatened, is LONGLISTED for the 2014 National Book Award for Young People’s Lit.
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This week, we were thrilled to announce the Longlists for the 2019 National Book Awards. These titles in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature represent some of the best writing of the year. The Finalists will be announced October 8, all in the lead up to the 70th National Book Awards on November 20.
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Barnes and Nobles is gonna start serving food and alcohol.
Everybody’s cracking jokes about how it’s a desperate attempt to stay relevant in the age of Amazon.
But you know what? Props to them. This is exactly what Blockbuster didn’t do. At no point was Blockbuster like “Hey, movie rentals aren’t the lucrative enterprise they once were. Perhaps it’s time we become known for our cheesy garlic bread.”
that’s a fantastic plan, honestly? i would 100% go sit at a bookshop, buy a glass of wine, and pick up the newest biography. 50/50 i’d decide to buy it after a couple chapters, and even if i don’t, that’s still money i spent at B&N!
They could host book clubs with food and drinks where one of the employees shares their experiences with a book of their choice and tries to convince the guests to buy it.
Barnes and noble realizing the only reason people go to brick and mortar stores is for the experience and access to an enjoyable physical space they can socialize in (sure isnt for the price) and capitalizing on that is a stroke of genius and a really refreshing approach to the dilemma of competing with online stores
