Bibliophibious

Wanderings of a bibliophibian Goodreads LibraryThing

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The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald

Penguin Edition 1970

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Gabby Bess, Alone with Other People

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DANCING ABOUT ARCHITECTURE

Essay by Michael Coyle

    “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture”: Google this quotation and you’ll find it attributed to any of a dozen people ranging from Thelonious Monk to Lou Reed, from Martin Mull to Elvis Costello to Frank Zappa. Doubtless there’s a story to be told about how this quip turned into the stuff of urban legend. But most everyone who has ever thrilled to a favorite song knows the force of it. I sure do. I’ve been writing about—or trying to write about—music since I was in college, driven by the sheer futility of it, but also by that deeply human need to communicate what is beyond words.

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Did I mention that Mixtape Methodology is happening? Mixtape Methodology is happening. This cassette j-card enlargement is by Victoria Haven.

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"Let’s read." by kirst belle d on INPRNT

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-via Book Riot

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Kurt Seligmann: The History of Magic (1947)

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pronunciation | "bi-blE-‘oth-e-"ker-E

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KANYE WEST AS A MODE OF BEING

Poetry by Kyla Bills

  i’m trying to match kanye’s self love

undivided, attentive, uncircumstantial

pure and unadulterated self confidence

repeating “my life is dope, and i do dope shit”

until i fall asleep

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KILL FOR THRILL—KILL FOR THRILL: LISTEN TO THE GOODBYE WAVES (DIRECTLY INSPIRED BY BOB DYLAN’S “CHUG A LUG—CHUG A LUG HEAR ME HOLLAR HI DEE HO”)

Poetry by Kayla Pongrac

    she was burying her feet in the sand—looking toward the seagulls’ wings—whispering “they broke a hermit crab’s back” please—i ignore her—she ignores me too “they broke its shell and it’s paralyzed forever-don’t understand how the sea stays level”

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Books

For ambroseharte and his wonderful poetry