[thatandhope]

[macrolit]

Life is too short to read a bad book.

James Joyce (born on this day in 1882)

[sweet-cozy-home]

[wanderingnewyork]

Houses in Carroll Gardens.

[thatandhope]

Yesterday I moved here!

[paticmak]

Summer evening.

[thatandhope]

Life Changes!

A few really lovely things have happened in the past couple of months that I just have to document.

1. I am now a managing editorial assistant at Simon and Schuster,

2. which means I quit the job at that small press

3. and I no longer have to freeze.

4. Also, I work in Manhattan!

5. And I get to work on some really great books.

6. And soon I’ll (hopefully) have my own apartment.

7. And I have a boyfriend.

Just to name a few.

[thatandhope]

#books

[in-the-land-of-gods-and-monsters]

[thatandhope]

One of the things I like about my job is that it draws on the entire person: not just your knowledge of grammar and punctuation and usage and foreign languages and literature but also your experience of travel, gardening, shipping, singing, plumbing, Catholicism, midwesternism, mozzarella, the A train, New Jersey. And in turn it feeds your more experience.

Mary Norris, Confessions of a Comma Queen

[thatandhope]

[literarystarbucks]

Junie B. Jones

Junie B. Jones goes up to the counter and orders a strawberries & creme frappuccino under the name Junie B. Jones. “What does the B stand for?” asks the barista. “Beatrice,” replies Junie B., “but I don’t like Beatrice. I just like B, and that’s all.” The barista just writes “Junie” on the cup and Junie B. refuses to drink it.

[reader-beautihunter]

[teaaleaves]

[half-desertedstreets]

Super into these.

[thatandhope]

Someone get these babies for me.

[ocean-l1ving]

[longshankstumblarian]

A 17-Year-Old Artist Created This Incredible Map Of Literature Source: www.buzzfeed.com/danieldalton/map-of-literature?utm_term=.fxZ7Nrp1R#.ek992L8Zk

[penguinrandomhouse]

Readers in football season: a short story.