[prominentman]

Perfect love letter found in a used book

[prominentman]

From Weather by Jenny Offill

[prominentman]

[loveridden1999]

crossfaded somewhere between "there has to be more to life than this" and "every mundane thing is beautiful when you're with people you love"

[weltenwellen]

Hanif Abdurraqib, "Glamor on the West Streets / Silver Over Everything"

[pwlanier]

An illustrated Halloween party invitation, dated 1913.

Sworders

[ihadadreamiwantedtolickyourknees]

[pwlanier]

Gabriel Summers (British, b.1962) 'The Glass of Beer' signed, dated '92' and titled verso, oil on canvas

Sworders

[prominentman]

From Weather by Jenny Offill

[newvision]

— Jenny Offill from Weather, 2020

[exitwound]

mutuals

[2000ghosts]

august 1, 2008

[samueldelany]

"Nobody who has spent as much time in used bookstores as I have can fail to realize how normal this used to be. Dhalgren, one of the most difficult (and great) novels of the 1970s, debuted as a paperback and, though nobody remembers this, maybe outsold Gravity’s Rainbow, a much easier book. As Samuel Delany points out..., the postwar “paperback revolution” created an environment in which science fiction publishers could count on such a loyal audience that they could constantly test that readership’s loyalty with strange new writers like Ursula LeGuin, Joanna Russ, R.A. Lafferty, Gene Wolfe, and the early Roger Zelazny (before he started with that Nine Princes in Amber shit) and get away with it. What? You didn’t like the book? You’re out a dollar and tomorrow night you can go back to Heinlein, you big baby."

-Phil Christman

[elwenyere]

[academic-vampire]

A crucial part of the bookstore experience is saying hi to all the books you’ve already read

[avtavr]

Weegee, Coney Island crowd, 1940.

[croszukis]

we’ve been robbed of seeing women in pinstripe baseball uniforms for too long