bare necessities

bad idea tennessee

fortnightly boat (book)

erik larson, author of many narrative nonfiction bangerz, including "the devil in the white city", has a new book and it is about...

the sinking of the lusitania! it's called "dead wake"!

you can read an excerpt here, before it comes out on march 10.

toot toooooooooooot.

BREAKING LITERATURE NEWS

Harper Lee wrote a 'To Kill a Mockingbird' sequel, and it’s coming in July: http://t.co/6pMKXb4obf pic.twitter.com/zw220T1Gqs
— Vulture (@vulture) February 3, 2015

it's here!!!!!!11111

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books and pages = OVER.

this blew my fucking mind today:

The “Optimal Recognition Point” (ORP) is slightly left of the center of each word, and is the precise point at which our brain deciphers each jumble of letters.

The unique aspect of Spritz is that it identifies the ORP of each word, makes that letter red and presents all of the ORPs at the same space on the screen.

In this way, our eyes don’t move at all as we see the words, and we can therefore process information instantaneously rather than spend time decoding each word. (via)

250 words per minute:


350 words per minute:


500 words per minute:

these two old queens giggle and whisper about being gay in paris

edmund white (who i honestly thought was dead) and dennis cooper in interview magazine

2pzGifGuide - Bonus Round for Classy 2Pz Gif Givers

(perhaps only Thomas Wilhelm is in this demographic)

Marking the only time buying books online saves a real live bookstore, the St. Mark's Bookshop is hosting an online auction to raise funds for their future move out of a pricey space owned by Cooper Union. Up on the auction block are signed books from classy New York authors like Junot Diaz, Paul Auster, Patti Smith, and David Byrne. Perfect for your favorite Rockefeller or Astor descendant. Just don't bid on that signed copy of Maus by Art Spiegelman, because I've got my eye on it.

here comes the hobbit

i was really devoted to the original lord of the rings movies, and i guess im looking forward to this as well but i get so annoyed when one book gets split up across years into separate movies.

Sendak retrospective in Soho

"AFA announces a retrospective in loving memory of Maurice Sendak. The exhibition will open on Saturday, June 9th, the day before what would have been the artist’s 84th birthday, and will remain on display through Labor Day. The collection includes nearly 50 original works, including published pieces, conceptual art and a bronze sculpture. This “Wild Thing” sculpture was launched in 2009 to celebrate the largest gallery exhibition that Mr. Sendak had during his extensive career, and was a collaboration with AFA gallery owner, Nicholas Leone."

Monday – Saturday 10AM – 7PM
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fifty states of grey

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the northeast has the most readers, but the south mistakenly thinks its a good-ass book. why are they pointing at tennessee like that? clearly mississippi is worse, like always.

Baz Luhrmann - Great Gatsby trailer

some long form reading

some of you may have heard of / read the bestselling book, "born to run", featuring ultramarathon runner micah true's relationship with a remote long-distance-running mexican tribe. he recently went missing and was found dead in the wilderness of new mexico, and the new york times published a really great feature on him. check it out if you have some time.

His story was exuberantly molded into legend in the 2009 best-seller “Born to Run” by Christopher McDougall. Caballo Blanco, however private and self-effacing, was suddenly delivered to the world as a prophet, “the lone wanderer of the High Sierras.” To many, he represented the road not taken, a purer path, away from career, away from capitalism, away from the clock.

McDougall, himself a runner, was one of the dozens who had hurried to southwestern New Mexico to join the search, as had the actor Peter Sarsgaard, who was about to direct a movie based on the book. In just a few days, the Gila Wilderness had become a lodestone to a who’s who of ultramarathoners, athletes with loose limbs, lanky bodies and now a shared sense of dread.

“We’re thinking he could be lying out there hurt, unable to get help,” said the ultrarunner Luis Escobar, who had driven all night from California. (via)

for starla:

She's reading it you know.  How emBEARassing!

NeRd aLeRt!

check out this bookstore installed within an existing 13th century Dominican cathedral in Maastricht.

it IS intentional

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the hunger games movie gets suzanne collins' SEAL of approval.

The weekend's dosage of Hunger Games hype came courtesy of series author Suzanne Collins, who heartily endorsed Gary Ross's Hollywood adaptation. "I’ve just had the opportunity to see the finished film of The Hunger Games," Collins wrote on Facebook. "I feel like the book and the film are individual yet complementary pieces that enhance one another. The film opens up the world beyond Katniss’ point of view, allowing the audience access to the happenings of places like the Hunger Games control room and President Snow’s rose garden, thereby adding a new dimension to the story." Cool! Also: "It’s amazing to see things that are suggested in the book fully developed and so brilliantly realized through the artistry of the designers." Even if the eye candy of The Hunger Games is on point and everything else sucks, the movie's basically a win. (via)

brooklyn heights history

did you know truman capote wrote in cold blood at this house at 70 willow street? did you know 169 clinton street is haunted or something? today's brooklynbased presents a tour through the literary history of b-heights:

By the 1830s, Brooklyn Heights had already become one of New York’s elite enclaves, studded with lavish townhouses and easily accessible to Manhattan (first by the steam-powered Fulton Ferry, introduced in 1814, then by subway), but cut off from the average New Yorker. Today, the neighborhood remains a world apart, guarding its Victorian sensibility, multimillion-dollar brownstones and serene streets from the rest of the city. In the early 20th century, however, the neighborhood experienced a decline that persisted until after World War II. Back then, Brooklyn Heights had a tawdry air, its derelict grandeur attracting some of the 20th century’s most notable writers to its shores. (via)

books are alive

via another amazing tumblr

I ran across this while perusing literal bears i'm jealous of. I think you'll see why it got posted here.

OH, U HAVE URSELF A GOOD NIGHT, U BABY BEAR, U.

I WILL HAVE MYSELF A BAD NIGHT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!!!!!

U HAVE A BUN-BUN, ALL I HAVE IS THIS JEALOUSY.