The Backlist

"He liked to read with silence and the golden color of whiskey as his companions. He liked food, people, talk, but reading was an inexhaustible pleasure." - James Salter

[thesewindmills]

Some afternoons just call for a book you can’t put down and a cocktail.

[melvillehouse]

Perfect.

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Happy Birthday, America! For those of you who don't like barbecues. And have a little commie in you...

[writerswritecompany]

Larry McMurtry’s private library 

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BALLER. BTW - Everyone should read All My Friends Are Going To Be Strangers 

[itscolossal]

Book Paintings by Ekaterina Panikanova

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inside-out this time

[lacloserie]

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booksandpublishing 

[coffeeandthenewspaper]

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reading time

[vintageanchorbooks]

“Get in, get out. Don’t linger. Go on.” ― Raymond Carver Writer Raymond Carver was born today in 1938 in Clatskanie, Oregon, a mill town on the Columbia River.  Carver would have been 75 today.

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John Gall + Nabokov = a strong desire for way more free time and reading nook adorned with curios.  

Add these books to your collection. 

[mansguilt]

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In case you need some summer vacation planning inspiration, let me and Henry help. 

[artificialdependency]

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Road trip season is coming up. So could someone (ahem, S&S) please redesign All My Friends are Going to be Strangers? And maybe even make it look like it was written in the 70s? Thanks. 

PS - LM <3 books too 

[teachingliteracy]

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For those of you who just can't get enough of the Fitzgerald craze, here's one you may have missed. Reading instructions are clear. 

Add this book to your collection, and check out the rest of Rodrigo Corral's beautiful work at New Directions. 

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Existentialist-thought inducing landscapes aren't always gloomy, but they are always fit for a concerted Camus session. 

And there are more, more and more. And more, and more. (Get it?)

But really, there is more. 

Add these books to your collection. 

[awelltraveledwoman]

“May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.”

— Abraham Cowley (via girlwhogardens)

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More Fitzgerald to behold. These lovely and insouciant paperbacks call for some low-lit self-indulgence.

Add these books to your collection. 

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Thank you, the selby.