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Saul Bellow Herzog cover art

November 6th, 2014 · No Comments

Sometimes, a publishing company gets the cover art and design just right. I found this Penguin Classics cover for Saul Bellow’s Herzog striking and quite handsome.

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Arch: Le Bal des Ardents bookstore

August 25th, 2013 · No Comments

This is the entrance to the Le Bal des Ardents bookstore in Lyon, France (photographer unknown). Take a virtual tour of the interior of this bookstore here.

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Tags: arches · books

Time to Beat the Donuts

January 22nd, 2012 · No Comments

The manager of the local Dunkin’ Donuts is a Kerouac-loving New Yorker novelist who has a Hunter S. Thompson dagger tattooed on his forearm.

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Tags: books · food · Twitter

Kindle Good

December 27th, 2011 · No Comments

This new Kindle Fire is wonderful, but the neighbors’ unprotected wireless access FTW.

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Advent, Day 2

December 15th, 2011 · No Comments

Advent, Day 2: A pocket-sized hardcover of the poems of William Blake, found on the used-book cart at the library for 25¢. #24daysofadvent

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Armchair Traveling

November 8th, 2011 · No Comments

The e-mail tells me that the guidebook to El Camino de Santiago is waiting at the library. This is how the cash-strapped travel.

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Tags: books · CNFtweet

#bookswithalettermissing

September 8th, 2011 · No Comments

T Kill a Mockingbird Synopsis: Caveman gumshoe is hot on the trail of a mohawked TV star suspected of committing avicide.

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Fred FM playlist: 4 September 2011 “Fire and Rain I”

September 4th, 2011 · No Comments

Approximate playing time: 50 minutes.

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Tags: books · Fred FM · music

Arthur Schopenhauer says…

September 2nd, 2011 · No Comments

We love to buy books, because we believe we’re buying the time to read them. – Attributed to Arthur Schopenhauer by Warren Zevon

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The Social Network

May 13th, 2011 · No Comments

At book club, the woman sits in the corner, occasionally punctuating the discussion with an “Mm HMM!” She only came for the pizza.

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Tags: books · CNFtweet · food