Rooftops & Wallflowers

this is the last stop on the express train. please exit through the windows. and don't forget your pirate ships, rooftops, and wallflowers.

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this this this, magnificent prose (at All The Light We Cannot See)

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One hour, folks. #madhouse @theNewerYork (at (le) poisson rouge)

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[readingwhilesixteen]

A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.

Jane Yolen, A Girl in a Cage (via readingwhilesixteen)

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Tumblr, Electric Literature, The New Inquiry, and the Los Angeles Review of Books invite you to celebrate the Brooklyn Book Festival Bookends Opening Night!

Three top web-based literary publications (and Tumblr super-users) invite you meet your internet friends in person for chatting, drinking, and dancing to kick off the most bookish week in Brooklyn. Music from DJs Abby Klein and Doc Delay and drink specials enhance the East Coast vs. West Coast faceoff — and everybody wins!

Monday 9/17 at 7pm, Public Assembly, 70 N 6th Street, Brooklyn NY. See you there!

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Annabeth Sketch! Did you catch the owl necklace as a nodd to Athena? She’s only missing her yankee hat, but don’t worry she has one. ;)

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A must-see this summer!

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"Craft is performing a tremendous amount of faith" --George Saunders (at Portland State University)

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Nerding out over this one. @mollyd721 (at Tin House Magazine)

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Try again/ fail better. #thesisdrown

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It's 3:30AM and 12:30AM and do you know where your kids are? (This is between time zones) (at FLIGHT/SKY/GOLD)

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Lead bellies. (at The Leadbelly)

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Thank you theneweryork for posting my story Teeth, alongside this beautiful image. Read here:

Teeth

Art by SAM WHALEN. Multidimensional Artist and Novice Mystic based out of Seattle, WA.[/caption] I gave a hand-job to a stranger on a plane once. This is to tell you, I am easily persuaded. It was his teeth, really. The stranger in the aisle seat had the whitest teeth I had ever seen. Teeth…

Read the rest:

http://www.theneweryork.com/teeth-jamie-carr/

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#tradition

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@lasweeney fire, please. (at The Jane)

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Kale is good. (As is tequila.) (at Wayland NYC)

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Pony up. (at Jane's Carousel)

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The fed is getting a little sun-love this morning. (at Home)