“Kill a tree! Save a book!”
Our #TBT is dedicated to Carrie Brownstein, wunderhost of our 2013 5 Under 35 Celebration last November. (Awesome party photos here.) Carrie’s hit series Portlandia returns tonight on IFC. As a warm up to its premiere, watch Carrie share her alt-reality vision of our 5 Under 35 selection process.
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#books #television #Carrie Brownstein #Portlandia #Lit #5 Under 35 #tbt #ifc #NBAwards“KIll a Tree! Save a Book!” and other motivational thoughts for writers from Carrie Brownstein’s tribute to the National Book Foundation’s 2013 class of 5 Under 35 Authors at last night’s 5 Under 35 party.
Some Carrie Brownstein fun ‘cause we’re so excited she’s hosting tonight’s 5 Under 35 book party!
Announcing the amazing 2014 5 Under 35 Honorees, now in baseball card form thanks to Buzzfeed Books and Jarry Lee.
Our 2015 5 Under 35 Honorees have been announced!
Head over to BuzzFeed Books to learn more about these extraordinary young writers.
Via Buzzfeed Books
“I look forward to the time when honest depictions of women’s bodies are a normal thing to look at, instead of some kind of statement.”
—Anya Ulinich, 2007 5 Under 35 honoree and author of the recently released graphic novel Lena Finkle’s Magic Barrel
That’s what’s wonderful about writing: it’s always the reader that endows the writing with meaning, over and over again, and finds those connections that maybe the writer’s mind made but never actually discovered.
‘The rule in Russia, perhaps not exclusively, was the greater the writer, the shittier the day job.’
In 5 days Buzzfeed will announce this year’s 5 Under 35 honorees!
Honorees are promising young writers selected by past Winners and Finalists of the National Book Awards. The writers who chose this year’s honorees are: Andrea Barrett, Amy Bloom, Andre Dubus III, Aleksandar Hemon, and Karen Tei Yamashita.
The Honorees will be celebrated at an event on 11/17 that marks the beginning of National Book Awards week. The ceremony will be hosted by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson (Mo’ Meta Blues) with Ben Greenman (The Slippage) as MC and DJ at Brooklyn’s powerHouse Arena, thanks to generous support from Amazon.com.
The teeth are the true windows to the soul; they are the tabula rasa on which all our vices and all our virtues are inscribed.
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
