Wash ,'Objects In Space'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
The Guardian asked authors to write about their most vividly remembered holiday read.
They're all pretty great though I particularly like AS Byatt and Antonia Fraser's contributions. Fascinating to see the mix of memory, reading and landscape come together.
Anyone who is at all interested in especially 80s Hollywood gossip has got to read Rob Lowe's autobiography. It's great! It really is all these great stories (some of which are really unbelievable), with not a ton of introspection, but that seems like the way he is, basically -- he kind of goes along and looks on the bright side and that kind of thing.
Neil Gaiman linked to a blog with posts about weird things customers say in a bookstore. It's hysterical. link
The 30 Harshest Author-on-Author Insults In History [link]
Gertrude Stein on Ezra Pound: “A village explainer. Excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.”
Vladimir Nabokov on Ernest Hemingway: “As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.”
bells, balls and bulls
Hahahah that's so great.
Customer: I read a book in the eighties. I don't remember the author, or the title. But it was green, and it made me laugh. Do you know which one I mean?
I had that one too, they were handing them out on campus, my first day of college.
New cover for Persuasion - ???
wth, sumi? That makes very little sense to me, and it certainly doesn't look like Anne.
I know - it makes it look like she's being strangled by some sort of carnivorous vine.
Strangled by...the stuffy conventions of Regency society?