Books in 140 Seconds: Prep

As we announced a couple weeks ago, Erin Balser and I have decided to run a book club in a mere 140 seconds, and we’re taping it for your viewing pleasure. Just watch the video and then join in the conversation here. Books in 140 Seconds runs every second Thursday, and we’ll give you a [...]

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Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including, Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry, by Leanne Shapton

Probably ever since we rested our tired nomadic feet and decided to settle down to some nice farming, humans have become curators in our own personal museums.  Some may be conscious cultivation of our tastes such as art or certain impenetrable classics on the bookcase, while objects are things that we need in day to [...]

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Mathilda Savitch, by Victor Lodato

“Isn’t language amazing? I can’t get over it. Sometimes you can just say things and it’s like a bomb that blows all your clothes off and suddenly there you are naked. I don’t know if it’s disgusting or beautiful.” So says Mathilda Savitch, protagonist of the novel of the same name by Victor Lodato. It’s [...]

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