[bookriot]

[bookish]

Check out the winning photo and four runners up from our “Favorite NYC Reading Spot” contest with Gothamist!

[hilsingermendelson-blog]

Where's your favorite place to read in NYC?

[bookriot]

A library-style business card holder is just one of the tasty treats in this week’s Book Fetish.

[hilsingermendelson-blog]

We would love these business card holders!

[theparisreview]

“Ah, shit, I feel dreary, I’m telling you there are NO VIBRATIONS in Florida or anywhere in the south, the people are DEAD. Now I’m entering a period of mingling with human beings again, and leave the quiet night of woods awhile, I want to be back in the Nation of People, which is New York. … I’VE changed tho, not Florida.”

Jack Kerouac and his years in the sun.

[mcnallyjackson]

[willywaldo]

She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.

Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience

Call me crazy!

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[strandbooks]

Hotels Add Libraries as Amenity to Keep Guests Inside

Hotel chains are joining a trend started by boutiques in stocking books and newspapers in library-style locations for their guests.

(In which the Strand gets a call-out.)

[penamerican]

The Strand Bookstore’s Central Park Outpost: How it Works

[bookmania]

Happy birthday, Jo and Harry! Thank you for helping me remember to find hope during the darkest of times. 

[pbsthisdayinhistory]

Happy Birthday J.K. Rowling!

On this day in 1965, author Joanne Rowling, better known as J.K. Rowling, was born near Bristol, England. Rowling is the author and creator of the Harry Potter series. Her Harry Potter novels have been translated into more than 60 languages, selling 400 million copies. The books were made into films debuting in 2001. To date, the Harry Potter film saga is the most financially successful series in history, surpassing both Star Wars and James Bond.

Recently, J.K. Rowling has written a crime novel called The Cuckoo’s Calling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. The book which she released in April, has reached the top of the New York Times Best Sellers list days after Rowling’s identity was revealed.

Revisit last year’s Charlie Rose interview with J.K. Rowling as she discusses her first adult-book, The Casual Vacancy.

Photo: Courtesy of J.K.Rowling official website

[libraryjournal]

YER A WIZARD HARRY

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[bookriot]

Still on the hunt for the perfect ereading app? We break down some of the big ones. 

[penamerican]

"I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it."

[hilsingermendelson-blog]

Happy Belated Birthday to one of our favorite authors, Ernest Hemingway!

[readdreamwrite]

[theparisreview]

This is a 3-D orihon, or accordion book, made by Chicago artist and teacher Tom Burtonwood, and developed for the Center for Book and Paper Arts at Columbia College.

[newyorker]

From our archive: Arthur Miller writes about life before air-conditioning: http://bit.ly/KBDSGB

“The men sweated a lot in those lofts, and I remember one worker who had a peculiar way of dripping. He was a tiny fellow, who disdained scissors, and, at the end of a seam, always bit off the...

[hilsingermendelson-blog]

Here's hoping you're inside a nice, air-conditioned room!

[nypl]

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.

J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

The classic novel about adolescence, The Catcher in the Rye, was published on this day 62 years ago in 1951. Be sure to visit your local NYPL branch today to check out this novel as part of your summer reading! And be sure to stop by the main branch on Fifth Ave and 42nd St. on Thursday for this month’s ‘Monthly Book Discussion’ which is discussing The Catcher and the Rye. 

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