oliver depp ink

'cause I like to be gone most of the time / and you like to be home, most of the time / if i stay in one place I lose my mind / i'm a pretty impossible lady to deal with -Kimya Dawsom

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Queer SFF books by POC authors. 

Edit – apparently transphobes, aphobes and the like have found this post. So official note: transphobes and other gate-keeping, exclusionist bigots are NOT WELCOME. This post is Not for You. 

[theartofangirling]

no one: me: here’s a flow chart of 41 lgbtq+ book recommendations, have fun! disclaimer: this is a very non-comprehensive list since I’m only including books that I’ve read

[wordbookstores]

WORD is 10! + Expanding

We’re celebrating a big anniversary, and expanding in Brooklyn!

So we’ve been in the bookstore business since 2001, but it wasn’t until 2007 that we learned to spread (bookselling) love the Brooklyn way. We are so excited and proud to be celebrating 10 YEARS as Greenpoint’s community bookstore. Thanks to those in our community here and IRL who’ve followed along on this wild ride, and cheers to so many more memories.

And! Just like an awkward pre-teen, we are growing and need more space. Coming this spring we will take over a storefront two doors down from our existing Brooklyn store and introduce WORD KIDS, a space dedicated solely to kids’ books, toys, crafts, clothing, storytimes and other events, and lots of fun for Greenpoint’s youth. Stay tuned for more!

Take a trip down memory lane with us. This one’s for the #books.

#WORDis10

Our first author event, for Mo Willems’ KNUFFLE BUNNY.

WORD Bookstores founder Christine (thumbs up!) and her earliest original staff.

Breaking ground in our event space!

The earliest days in our Brooklyn store.

Thanks to our beloved Greenpoint community for welcoming us with open arms 10 years ago, and all those who have been with us since day one. Here’s to our next chapter of independent bookselling!

[oliverdeppink]

Happy 10 years and 10 more! Happily loving on WORD today and everyday. 

[bookriot]

If you’re craving some amazing representations of queerness in fantasy, than look no farther than the three titles below. Each in their own way contain queer characters with rich, inner lives without resorting to any of the known queer tragic tropes, while also racing through beautiful, complex worlds, both inner and outer, of fantasy and magic.

http://bookriot.com/2017/01/09/buy-borrow-bypass-queer-fantasy-books/

[awesomearchives]

Current US law extends copyright for 70 years after the date of the author’s death, and corporate “works-for-hire” are copyrighted for 95 years after publication. But prior to the 1976 Copyright Act (which became effective in 1978), the maximum copyright term was 56 years…

Consider the films and television shows from 1959 that would have become available this year. Fans could share clips with friends or incorporate them into homages. Local theaters could show the full features. Libraries and archivists would be free to digitize and preserve them. Here are a few of the movies that we won’t see in the public domain for another 39 years.

The number of published works that entered public domain in the US this year was… 0, zip, nada, thanks to so-called “Mickey Mouse” extensions.

In literature particularly, our copyright situation has relegated an entire generation of orphan works to the dustbin of history. They can’t be reprinted, or digitized, and are out of print. It’s a real shame. The article goes into this a bit at the end.

Click through for a list of some of the stuff that could have been public domain this year, including Ben Hur, The Sound of Music, and Some Like it Hot.

[oliverdeppink]

Further trouble in publishing.

[wmagazine]

First Lady of Fashion

Photo by Willy Vanderpierre, styled by Edward Enninful. W Magazine, October 2013.

[lookatmeheyoverhere-deactivated]

Hillary 2016

[runwithskizzers]

WOMEN HAVE SEEN THIS COMING FOR YEARS

[quirkbooks]

Happy Gilmore Girls Day!

[customerservicewolf]

Lliterary Llama is just checking. 

Happy reading! 

[oliverdeppink]

Supply and demand.

[micdotcom]

Watch: The new Hidden Figures trailer is even better than the last one

[snarksandkisses]

Looking forward to this!

[oliverdeppink]

This looks incredible.

[dcpubliclibrary]

Congratulations to Dr. Carla Hayden, CEO of our neighbor Baltimore’s Enoch Pratt Free Library, whose nomination as the new Librarian of Congress was approved today by the US Senate in a vote of 74-18 ! 

[oliverdeppink]

Some good news!

[electricliterature]

How to Set a Fire and Why We Watch It Burn

Jesse Ball has created a character who stands as one of the great angst-ridden misfit teenagers in contemporary American lit

“Lucia is a teenager teetering on the edge of a cliff that oversees two vastly different valleys.”

Read the full review of How to Set a Fire and Why on Electric Literature.

[oliverdeppink]

Agree. Cosign. Love. Fire.

[sheisrecovering]

Sit down and listen when people of colour talk about their experiences.

[oliverdeppink]

Simple. Rare.

[lemonyandbeatrice]

What’s your name, man?

[oliverdeppink]

We have come to a fork in the road of our nation- it's not the first and not the last. It is also hugely important.

[themorningnews]

The recent ho-hum reaction to the purchase and ensuing buyback of Frommer’s obscures one key fact: Guidebooks are creators of social change. A defense of their place in the canon.

[spx]

PRAISE THE OLD GODS AND THE NEW!

We’ve finally, FINALLY launched our new website and we’ve done so at a new domain: smallpressexpo.com!

And if you take a peek right now you might be the first to know some fun news about what’s to come for SPX 2016!

(You also might find the occasional bug - please do help us squash these!)

[oliverdeppink]

As with every year, I will go to this and buy so many things and bask in so many good and smart people and remember why I read in the first place. So you in September!

[classicpenguin]

“The phrase and the day and the scene harmonized in a chord. Words. Was it their colours? He allowed them to glow and fade, hue after hue: sunrise gold, the russet and green of apple orchards, azure of waves, the greyfringed fleece of clouds. No it was not their colours: it was the poise and balance of the period itself. Did he then love the rhythmic rise and fall of words better than their associations of legend and colour? Or was it that, being as weak of sight as he was shy of mind, he drew less pleasure from the reflection of the glowing sensible world through the prism of a language manycoloured and richly storied than from the contemplation of an inner world of individual emotions mirrored perfectly in a lucid supple periodic prose?”

— James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Happy Bloomsday!