🦋 Two Bookstores
I went to Brooklyn yesterday evening to hear Gary Shteyngart reading from Super Sad True Love Story (about which more later -- it looks from the first pages and from the portion he read like it is going to be a magnificent book) at Greenlight Books,  which turns out to be a lovely independent book shop in Fort Greene... I got there early enough to take the train to Grand Army Plaza and walk through Prospect Heights, and by serendipity discovered a second bookshop that I'm adding to my list of destinations, which is Unnameable Books. The reading was packed -- easily 75 people were there, filling up the seating area, spilling onto the floor and into the aisles of the shop. One of the most fun readings I can remember. I met up with Dave and Greg, and went out for dinner with them afterwards. Got my book inscribed. (And by a funny coincidence, I bought an inscribed book at Unnameable Books, a little booklet of poetry by José Pubén -- it is signed "with brotherly amity" to Adela Muñoz.)
posted morning of Saturday, July 31st, 2010
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Your sidebar linking to Slacktivist's reprinting of Jourdan Anderson's letter reminds me that Fred has been writing about scapegoating by way of discussion of Ursula K. LeGuin's short stroy "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" from her book The Wind's Twelve Quarters. That story, and the whole book, is well worth a read.
posted evening of August 8th, 2010 by George
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