Achtung Baby!

I love the design of this book

+ Preview the First Chip Kidd Pages From Neil Gaiman’s Make Good Art

The Story of A Cover girl

+ Lolita: The Story of a Cover Girl will be published in August by Print

"like a slutty honeymoon joke"

I don't even remember how I ended up reading "MAO II" but I remember liking it a lot. At least it didn't piss me off like "Underworld"

Hamlet had a boner

 i am a shakespearean scholar 

The desire to achieve

+ Audio of John Galt's Speech from 'Atlas Shrugged'



This summary of the speech cracked me up - "If you don't think the entire world is completely fucked, you're not paying attention. Yeah, it's pretty bad out there. But until you realize why things are so out of hand, it's only going to get worse. So listen the fuck up."

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Annabelle Lee

My Reasons for making it to 2013 #3

I must make it to one of these signings.

+ GAIMAN ANNOUNCES FINAL BOOK-SIGNING TOUR

our love is inexperienced

A strong marriage bond connects Jack Gladney and his current wife Babette in Don DeLillo’s White Noise. Gladney muses: “Sometimes I think our love is inexperienced. The question of dying becomes a wise reminder. It cures us of our innocence of the future. Simple things are doomed, or is that a superstition?” He continues: “Babette and I tell each other everything… turned our lives for each other’s thoughtful regard, turned them in the moonlight in our pale hands, spoken deep into the night… In these night recitations we create a space between things as we felt them at the time and as we speak them now.” DeLillo’s handwritten notes for the novel are featured in the exhibition.
In the Galleries: “Love and Relationships”

 

One perk of living in Austin that I have not taken advantage of is going to The University of Texas at Austin's Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center to check out the Archive of Don DeLillo. Back when I was really interested in being a Novelist, I got really pissed off at his book "Underworld" because every other page had a paragraph so amazing that it made me give up writing. I can't think of the root cause of why I gave up writing. I think I had an ex that fucked all the talent out of me. She was the PJ Harvey to my Nick Cave. Except Nick at least got "The Boatman's Call" out of that relationship.

October Book Acquisitions

+ Book Preview: New York Drawings by Adrian Tomine
+ Bits Of Beauty Amidst The Gloom In 'Building Stories'
+ Excerpt: Building Stories

Are Book Covers A Dying Art?

+ In The E-Book World, Are Book Covers A Dying Art?