- King County Library System wins the big prize
Library Director Bill Ptacek and King County Library System have won Gale/Library Journal’s prestigious “Library of The Year” award. We’re proud to say that we’ve been fans of King County… / Read more »
- No mystery, says Seattle bookseller
On Wednesday, Amazon rolled out a press release announcing that it had swung a major deal — 47 books — for a major author — the late Ed McBain —… / Read more »
- "Friendship is a comic art"
Lars Iyer, author of Spurious (the first novel in a trilogy that will include Dogma and Exodus) discusses Kafka, comedy, friendship, and the apocalypse at the new literary website Full-Stop.net. Here a few highlights… Read more »
- Slavoj Žižek on parenting: "not only you have to visit your grandmother, you have to like it"
Catching up on my Biblioklept yesterday, I caught the following video of Žižek talking about parenting (with some actual parenting thrown in for good measure) that would’ve been a bit more… Read more »
- Nabokov imagined the emoticon before it existed
News to me, via Lapham’s Quarterly: In 1969 Vladamir Nabokov was interviewed for an article in The New York Times, and was asked, “How do you rank yourself among writers (living) and of the… / Read more »
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