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They look like trellises and fishtanks, spacesuits and mailboxes. One squeezes into the cracks of a historic building. Others offer built-in seating. New York, meet your newest public libraries. Holding no more than about 20 books for old and young, the 10 new Little Free Libraries — miniature lending libraries where anyone can take or leave a book under the honor system — will pop up all over downtown Manhattan on Saturday afternoon, and will stand until Sept. 1. (via With Tiny Libraries, Bringing Free Literature to the Streets - NYTimes.com)
Housing Works Bookstore Cafe was delighted to play a small part in this project!
Cool!!!! I’ll have to keep an eye out
What an excellent idea.
I love writing poetry but it’s taken time, like a difficult courtship that leads to a good marriage, for us to get to know each other. I wrote poetry for seven years to learn how to write a sentence because I really wanted to write novels and I figured that I couldn’t write a novel until I could write a sentence. I used poetry as a lover but I never made her my old lady… . I tried to write poetry that would get at some of the hard things in my life that needed talking about but those things you can only tell your old lady.
Richard Brautigan (via cahoodaloodaling)
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3You eventually take her to her bed and bury yourself inside of her over and over again while the moon rises. And you kiss her full on the mouth on Sunday morning when you leave. She gives you a bag of organic apples from her fridge. Pacific Roses. She doesn’t cry. She kisses you again and afterwards, punches your arm. You pretend it hurts. You say okay. She says okay bye. You think about how pretty and small her hands are. That poem where the guy talks about how not even the rain has such small hands. You want to say Scarlett, not even the rain has such small hands but you don’t know what it means. Maybe you know what it means. You want to say Scarlett, maybe I know what it means.
_WAYFARING by LEESA CROSS-SMITH over @ PITHEAD CHAPEL. (via brightlywound)
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Look at the kind of people who most object to the childishness and cheapness of celebrity culture. Does one really want to side with such apoplectic and bombastic bores? I should know, I often catch myself being one, and it isn’t pretty. I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary of false dichotomies. You do not have to choose between one or the other. You can have both. The human cultural jungle should be as varied and plural as the Amazonian rainforest. We are all richer for biodiversity. We may decide that a puma is worth more to us than a caterpillar, but surely we can agree that the habitat is all the better for being able to sustain each. Monocultures are uninhabitably dull and end as deserts.
Stephen Fry (via bridgettelizabeth)
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Mavis Gallant’s collected journals are expected to come out later this year.
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The draw of the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s classic breakup song “Maps” is that it is as plainly sad as possible. “Wait,” the band’s lead singer, Karen O, sings over and over, “they don’t love you like I love you.” But “Maps” is also enigmatic: beyond its abject chorus, the lyrics are cryptic, with verses that are brief and opaque—“Packed up / Don’t Stray / Oh say, say, say / Oh say, say, say.” Karen O repeatsmaps, plaintive and without context, stretching the word’s aaa over four bars.
According to fan mythology, “Maps” is an acronym for “my Angus please stay,” referencing Liars lead singer Angus Andrew, whom Karen O has said the song is about. There may be other ways to read the song’s title, though. “Maps” evokes the physical and metaphorical distance that is felt from a lover who is leaving. It is a kind of emotional cartography, mapping two people’s painful journeys away from one another. This will serve as our foundation: maps aren’t impersonal, objective. They aren’t.
—Alice Bolin on how maps create a hybrid of thing and thought, a picture of the self.
Illustration Credit Philippe Gonzalvez
