Favorite Tweets:

My nephew’s name is Jackson Wolf A.

Favorite Search Terms

• empty schoolyard: flat basketballs, dust bunnies, tennis shoes hanging from electric wires by their perfectly bowed laces.
• yodas house: Holy Noodles, my imagination just blew up nuclear style.
• then sail, my fine lady, on the billowing wave from the penelopiad: I just love when people google things like that.  I mean, who googles this?  It’s like a Greek Goddess got a google machine in her tower.
• bagels and bowel movements: what a great foodie blog title.  You should go with this.  Spread the cream cheese love.
• my windows aren’t dirty thats my cats nose art: I just needed to share this one.
• best holiday in my mind description text use expressions lying, nosing around, potter around and must-dos: I hope you mean HARRY potter around.
• dresses for my friend caroline who is having a party on a ship but not a tight dress cause that’s bad: I feel like I’m fourteen and own a yacht when I read this.  Or maybe P.Diddy’s other 9 children are finally having their sweet sixteens.

Book News

• Write the Mayor and City Council to preserve the NY Public Library System.
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  Guerilla Library in NYC

  NY pay phones become guerilla libraries @ The Atlantic & Tin House (more recently)

• Make libraries statutory @ The Bookseller
• Ayn Rand’s Fountainhead – Questions @ EverydayEBook
• Young Lion’s Fiction Award @ NYPL
• Victoria Chang talks about what small presses excite her for contemporary poetry @ Ploughshares
• Books as Sacred @ Huff Post
• 145 Never Before Published Poems by Shel Silverstein @ LA Review of Books
• Tell The Rumpus the last book you loved and get on The Rumpus blog @ The Rumpus
• Q&A with author Melanie Benjamin who wrote Alice I Have Been and Mrs. Tom Thumb @ EverydayEBook
• Gracious Donor in Vermont replaces Book Mobile with over 100,000 @ Weekend Edition
• Hilary Mantel talks Bring Up the Bodies @ Omnivoracious
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  Harry Potter Decal

  Harry Potter Decals @ Etsy

• Recipes from Writers @ Brain Pickings
• Fitzgeralds in Hollywood @ Times Library Supplement
• Neil Gaiman’s commencement address @ Galley Cat
• 50 Creative Writing Professors on Twitter @ WorldWideLearn
• Updike Reissued in Paperback @ Tucson Citizen
• Groupon works with First Book @ Groupon
• Barack Obama fails Shades of Gray Test @ Galley Cat
• NY Times Best-Seller List
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  Bookfessions

  Bookfessions@ Tumblr

• Michael McGriff featured Poet @ Poetry Daily
• Game of Thrones Re-Cap @ The Atlantic
• Speaker list for Library of Congress Book Festival
• Anthony Hopkins as Hemingway @ Deadline Hollywood
• Joan Didion on Respect @ Brain Pickings
• Poe of Edgar Allen writes Mary of Had a Little Lamb @ Poetry Foundation
• Justin Halpern talks I Suck at Girls @ EW’s Shelf Life
• B&N Talks with Megan Mayhew Bergman @ Review B&N
• Book Review Worst Offenders @ Ploughshares
• Everyday Words Invented by Famous Authors @ Flavor Wire
• The Giving Tree Inspires Wedding Invitations @ Galley Cat
• Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Files for Bankruptcy @ Huff Post
• John Steinbeck @ Paris Review (It’s enough to just put his name).

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  Nabokov | Butterfly Catcher

• Bookstore Cafe Authors in Shorts @ Pinterest
• Marissa Meyer (of Cinder) Talks How she Sold her NanoWriMo Novel @ The Office of Letters and Light
• Patti Smith will Interview Neil Young @ BEA
• Pet Owls Abandoned after Harry Potter Craze Ends @ Mirror
• Review of New Book by Marilynne Robinson @ LA Review of Books