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Congratulations to the finalists for this year’s National Book Awards!

Our own Colin Dwyer writes that “while there are some readily recognizable names among the remaining authors — some with past shortlist appearances and other literary prizes already under their belt — none of them has taken home a National Book Award in these categories before.” Check out his coverage here.

– Petra

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classical movie posters: homer

“Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions? I promise you I will do everything just as you ask. But come closer. Let us give in to grief, however briefly, in each other’s arms.” ― Homer,

#covers #homer #the iliad #the odyssey #poetry

BOOKS.

::drools::

1882: Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass is famously “banned in Boston” by the Society of Suppression of Vice. Read more about banned poetry for Banned Books Week.

#Walt Whitman #Leaves of Grass #banned books

liartownusa

A Field Guide to Chimp Limbs by Gleonard Portions

#A Field Guide to Chimp Limbs #Gleonard Portions #covers

francfernandez

#covers

abookblog

Each time we come to a book we give it a different reading because we bring a different person to it. It is not you who reads the book, the book reads you.

Jack Lasenby, The Shaman And The Droll (via abookblog)

irakalan

CRYSTALLIZED BOOKS BY ALEXIS ARNOLD

Artist Alexis Arnold - “The Crystallized Book Series addresses the materiality of the book versus the text or content of the book, in addition to commenting on the vulnerability of the printed book. The crystals remove the text and transform the books into aesthetic, non-functional objects. The books, frozen with crystal growth, have become artifacts or geologic specimens imbued with the history of time, use, and nostalgia. The series was prompted by repeatedly finding boxes of discarded books, by the onset of e-books, and by the shuttering of bookstores.”

wordbookstores

Woah.

artificeofeternity

Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way?

Henry David Thoreau, Walden (via artificeofeternity)

#Henry David Thoreau #Walden

jbbbarnes

#stores #ladders #shelves

ejmellowbookends

by Sarah Braham

booklover

Paris. (by meduseetappeti)

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Hey, lovely followers! The book publishing company I intern at has started a promotion with Starbucks. The “pick of the week” - you know those cards? - will be for S.E. Hinton’s RUMBLEFISH (you know that author who wrote THE OUTSIDERS)!! Which means if you pick it up you...