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“For me, seven years is fast. Most of my pieces have taken ten to twelve years from the time of the initial impulse to the day I abandon them, and I’ve gone as long as twenty-five years.”
The New Yorker interviews Denis Johnson. Listen to the author read his story “Hippies” here, and listen to Wallace Shawn read an excerpt from “Car-Crash While Hitchhiking” here.
#NBAwards Winner Denis Johnson has a new short story in this week’s New Yorker.
A presidential reading list from the first family.
Click here for more books the Obamas purchased at Politics and Prose on Small Business Saturday.
Today is Operation Teen Book Drop 2014 and we will be leaving copies of our 2013 YPL #NBAwards-honored books in various locations throughout NYC. Look out for more #instagrams throughout the day of our books waiting for their new owners! @readergirlz #rockthedrop !!! #teens #books #teenlit #YA #NBAwards #coolfreestuff
#NBAwards Finalist in Nonfiction, #Ta-Nehisi Coates writes the following in his personal memoir, Between the World and Me, an open letter to his teenage son:
“And so I had no sense that any just God was on my side. ‘The meek shall inherit the earth’ meant nothing to me. The meek were battered in West Baltimore, stomped out at Walbrook Junction, bashed up on Park Heights, and raped in the showers of the city jail.”
Watch the #NBAwards ceremony live stream at nationalbook.org, xxpm, November 18. For more from #BetweenTheWorldAndMe, visit: http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2015_nf_tcoates.html#.Vjos8269GSo
FIRST PAGE, FIRST LINE of @MollyAntopol’s short-story collection, The UnAmericans, LONGLISTED for the 2014 National Book Award for Fiction. #NBAwards #literaure #shortstories #books #booktastic #bookstagram #reading #readdeep @wwnorton
It seems to me like the highest vision of the world is one in which you understand many seemingly contradictory things to be true at once.
Author George Saunders: “Holding Out A High Vision Of What Art Is Supposed To Do”
BuzzFeedBooks interviews 2013 #NBAwards Finalist George Saunders.
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
