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vintageanchorbooks: When it comes to publishing Haruki Murakami...

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:08:05 -0700

When it comes to publishing Haruki Murakami in English, nothing is lost in translation…

“Best-selling author Haruki Murakami’s latest novel is already a blockbuster in Japan. Once it is translated in English, it is bound to take the world by storm. In that sense, Murakami, who is 64 and considered among the world’s greatest contemporary novelists, owes much of his international popularity to his loyal team of translators…”

More here.

So many books, so little time!

Mon, 13 May 2013 08:17:48 -0700

So many books, so little time!

housingworksbookstore: THIS WEEK. IT’S HERE.

Mon, 06 May 2013 09:52:44 -0700

housingworksbookstore:

THIS WEEK. IT’S HERE.

centuriespast: Etienne Louis Boullée (1728–1799)Interior of a...

Fri, 03 May 2013 07:55:03 -0700

centuriespast:

Etienne Louis Boullée (1728–1799)
Interior of a Library

The Morgan Library

"I don’t even know what I’m writing, I have no idea, I don’t know anything, and I’m not reading over..."

Thu, 02 May 2013 08:11:25 -0700

“I don’t even know what I’m writing, I have no idea, I don’t know anything, and I’m not reading over it, and I’m not correcting my style, and I’m writing just for the sake of writing, just for the sake of writing more to you… My precious, my darling, my dearest!”

- Fyodor Dostoevsky, from Poor Folk, translated by Robert Dessaix

(via the-final-sentence)

dropitlikefscottt: Harry would have died if Hermione didn’t...

Wed, 01 May 2013 07:29:53 -0700

dropitlikefscottt:

Harry would have died if Hermione didn’t read.

From the mouth of a Master ...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:01:52 -0700

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.: Dr. Seuss

Literary Whirlygigs

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 08:10:55 -0700

Literary Whirlygigs

"And the sun on my shoulders brings, because of its perfect warmth, the feeling that I wear great..."

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 07:56:31 -0700

“And the sun on my shoulders brings,
because of its perfect warmth,
the feeling that I wear great wings
while stepping along the earth.”

- Robert Gray, from “Byron Bay: Winter” (via the-final-sentence)

vintageanchorbooks: “And if anyone asks, you’re Chinese. The...

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 06:45:59 -0700

vintageanchorbooks:

“And if anyone asks, you’re Chinese. The boy had nodded. ‘Chinese,’ he whispered. ‘I’m Chinese.’ ‘And I,’ said the girl, ‘am the Queen of Spain.’ ‘In your dreams,’ said the boy. ‘In my dreams,’ said the girl, ‘I’m the King.’”
―Julie Otsuka, When the Emperor Was Divine

Food for Thought?

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 12:01:43 -0700

“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.”: Victor Hugo

scribnerbooks: 22 covers of The Great Gatsby over the...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 07:38:41 -0700

scribnerbooks:

22 covers of The Great Gatsby over the years: http://bit.ly/112Nkaf

doubledaybooks: Too many books, or not enough? Heading into...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:01:46 -0700

doubledaybooks:

Too many books, or not enough?

Heading into the vortex of knowledge …

bookriot: Munich has a ludicrously luxurious law library.

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 10:22:35 -0700

bookriot:

Munich has a ludicrously luxurious law library.

I Believe I Was Sitting There …

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 12:01:56 -0700

I Believe I Was Sitting There …

Ain't That The Way?

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 23:36:07 -0700

“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”

— Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:26:02 -0700

“Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour.” - Robert Frost

Photo

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 14:03:53 -0700

"Me Talk Pretty One Day"

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 12:01:34 -0700

“My father always struck me as the sort of man who, under the right circumstances, might have invented the microwave oven or the transistor radio.”

- David Sedaris

Getting Round the Details

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:01:32 -0700

Getting Round the Details