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penguindesign: We begin a Penguin Design Award retrospective...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:26:26 -0400

First Place. Designed by Jenna Jones.

Second Place. Designed by Jez Burrows.

Third Place. Designed by Matthew Chilton.

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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.

Authors Jon Steele and Ridley Pearson signing copies of their...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:20:23 -0400

Authors Jon Steele and Ridley Pearson signing copies of their books at Poisoned Pen in Scottsdale last week.

Gary Greenberg and Gideon Lewis-Kraus discuss THE BOOK OF WOE,...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:22:09 -0400

Gary Greenberg and Gideon Lewis-Kraus discuss THE BOOK OF WOE, on sale now.

Authors Jon Steele and Taylor Stevens at BookPeople last night!

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 15:54:47 -0400

Authors Jon Steele and Taylor Stevens at BookPeople last night!

"If there was nothing he wanted or needed, why did his flat, full of things, feel so empty?"

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 15:04:53 -0400

“If there was nothing he wanted or needed, why did his flat, full of things, feel so empty?”

- Jon Steele, The Watchers (via aboyalive)

"As I swim, my mind wanders. I talk to myself. What I can see through my goggles is boring and foggy,..."

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 15:03:46 -0400

“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.””

- Leanne Shapton, Swimming studies (via mmmmemories)

Book paintings by Ekaterina Panikanova.

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 14:53:55 -0400

Book paintings by Ekaterina Panikanova.

Some great Penguin classics in there….

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 14:52:12 -0400

Some great Penguin classics in there….

Jon Steele and Taylor Stevens at BookPeople in Austin last...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:47:36 -0400

Jon Steele and Taylor Stevens at BookPeople in Austin last night.

Penguin On Campus: More great things for Gary Greenberg's―THE BOOK OF WOE

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:45:04 -0400

Penguin On Campus: More great things for Gary Greenberg's―THE BOOK OF WOE:

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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…

New Brooklyn literary-themed bar Biblio via Flavorwire’s...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:41:02 -0400

New Brooklyn literary-themed bar Biblio via Flavorwire’s 10 Literary Restaurants.

kqedarts: The Writers’ Block: Delia Ephron: The Lion Is...

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:58:13 -0400

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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.

heidijulavits: Sheila Heti, Leanne Shapton and Heidi Julavits...

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:20:19 -0400

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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.

millionsmillions: Gnarly, dude: Leanne Shapton’s reading her...

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:20:07 -0400

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Gnarly, dude: Leanne Shapton’s reading her new book at a surf shop.

glance-app: Can you check the honey? from Ben Schott’s Java...

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:19:06 -0400

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Can you check the honey?

from Ben Schott’s Java Jive: a fun op-art into the vocabulary of coffee bars

George Orwell’s manuscript of 1984 (x)

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:18:04 -0400

George Orwell’s manuscript of 1984 (x)

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Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:16:24 -0400

Author Jon Steele a few weeks ago, walking along the corniche...

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 12:01:51 -0400

Author Jon Steele a few weeks ago, walking along the corniche above Lake Geneva, thinking of what to say on his book tour which begins this weekend:

Printers Row Festival, Chicago IL, Saturday June 8
Boulder Book Store, Boulder CO, Monday June 10
BookPeople, Austin TX, Wednesday June 12
Poisoned Pen, Scottsdale AZ, Thursday June 13
Murder by the Book, Houston TX, Friday June 14

The Blue Rider team at Penguin’s BEA Bird Bash last week,...

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 13:01:07 -0400

The Blue Rider team at Penguin’s BEA Bird Bash last week, with author SJ Rozan (one half of pseudonym Sam Cabot, whose book BLOOD OF THE LAMB goes on sale in August).

futurejournalismproject: Not Your Ordinary...

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 12:39:48 -0400

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Not Your Ordinary Bookstore

Argentina’s El Ataneo Grand Splendid opened as a theater in 1919, later became a cinema and is now a bookstore.

Images: El Ataneo Grand Splendid, via Atlas Obscura.

Libraries of the world: Buenos Aires, Argentina