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THE DIARY OF EDWARD THE HAMSTER 1990-1990 by Miriam Elia and Ezra Elia will hit stores this fall.
Get introduced to Edward here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sfh1PaSRq3k
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First Place. Designed by Jenna Jones.
Second Place. Designed by Jez Burrows.
Third Place. Designed by Matthew Chilton.We begin a Penguin Design Award retrospective with the winners of the 2008 competition.
On the Road by Jack Kerouac. 2008 Penguin Design Award jacket design.
Find out more about the Penguin Design Award.
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Authors Jon Steele and Ridley Pearson signing copies of their books at Poisoned Pen in Scottsdale last week.
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Gary Greenberg and Gideon Lewis-Kraus discuss THE BOOK OF WOE, on sale now.
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Authors Jon Steele and Taylor Stevens at BookPeople last night!
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If there was nothing he wanted or needed, why did his flat, full of things, feel so empty?
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As I swim, my mind wanders. I talk to myself. What I can see through my goggles is boring and foggy, the same view lap by lap. Mundane, unrelated memories flash up vividly and randomly, a slide show of shuffling thoughts. They flash up and fade, like the thoughts that float peripherally before sleep, either inconsequential or gathering momentum into anxiety before eventually dissolving. Each thought lasts a quarter-lap or half-lap, a couple of laps tops. My responses to these thoughts are burbled into the water at my lips, improvements on history – things I wish I’d said or been able to say: “No, I’d rather not watch your bag.” Oui, en taille trente-six, s’il vous plait.” “Your spouse is not invited.
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Book paintings by Ekaterina Panikanova.
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Some great Penguin classics in there….
(Source: excessivebookshelf, via falling-inlove-with-books)
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Jon Steele and Taylor Stevens at BookPeople in Austin last night.
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Penguin On Campus: More great things for Gary Greenberg's―THE BOOK OF WOE
Check out this Q&A with Greenberg posted by The New York Times Art Beat“What was I saying before about capitalism? For me, the point of writing about the making of the D.S.M.-5 was to explore some deep historical currents that run under not only psychiatric diagnosis but medicine and…
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New Brooklyn literary-themed bar Biblio via Flavorwire’s 10 Literary Restaurants.
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The Writers’ Block: Delia Ephron: The Lion Is In
Delia Ephron, the woman behind such films as You’ve Got Mail, Hanging Up, and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, reads a passage from The Lion Is In, her new novel about three women who flee their lives and encounter the unlikeliest of companions, a lion named Marcel.
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Sheila Heti, Leanne Shapton and Heidi Julavits are working on a book titled Women in Clothes, about women’s relationship to style and why women wear what they wear. Contributors include Miranda July, Zadie Smith, Eileen Myles and others.
If you would like to contribute by filling out a survey (the book is being built up from these surveys) please visit this website. You needn’t care about clothes, or be a writer, or consider yourself fashionable, or even think about these things often, to contribute.
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Gnarly, dude: Leanne Shapton’s reading her new book at a surf shop.
