Favorite Tweets:

I just love this question because it’s a good one.  We all keep books on our nightstand (or in my case the poor-girls book basket by the bed) or on our bookshelves in our rooms, but where else?  Do you like to read meta-fiction by the toilet, or magical realism in the kitchen?

(I’m just really hoping Miss Bolden ended on “bud.”)

Favorite Search Terms:

• mona lisa with cat: I just love that you came to my blog with this.  It seems I am discussing the right things.
• books that have food contests: You’re looking for the State Fair.  Look for the red and white checked picnic table cloth.
• the cat lady book by roald dahl: How is it that I had never heard of this before this search term came up?  Disappointed in myself.
• how to decorate a love poem: You do this with gushy sentimentalities.
• what is a catchy title for a science fair project about recycling paper?: I got nothin’.  Anyone have anything?
• ninja takes out the trash: is he wearing all black? did he have to judu-chop the lid?

Book News:

• Anything written by Francine Prose will be shared on this blog @ Granta
• World Book Night Pinterest Shelf (literally) @ Pinterest
• Need Dating Advice?  Look to the pronouns @ Morning Edition
• Historic Photos from NYC Municipal Archives @ The Atlantic
• Babe Walker Outlines her Least Favorite Words (A few of these include, but are not limited to: argyle, chartreuse, soil, loogie, smurf, snazzy, and village) @ White Girl Problems
• LA Times Review of Books wants to “revive literary culture.” @ LA Times
• Why Laurie Halse Anderson Rules @ The Yalsa Hub
• Another article on books as iphone chargers @ Huff Post
• Rare Book Dealers (really interesting) @ The Guardian
• Five Poems for People who Don’t like Poetry @ The Half Price Blog
• Is that a poem in your pocket, or…(please come up with a new pick-up line) @ LA Times
• “You Are Not Your Bookshelf” @ Book Riot
• Iowa has a 75th year Reunion @ Rain Taxi
• Lilian Hellman (the last name says it all) @ NPR
• Fresh Air does Pinterest @ Pinterest
• Patti Smith gets Articled @ NY Review of Books
• Margaret Atwood wanted to take her bird hair tot he runway @ Cape Town Girl
• “Book Reviews: A Tortured History” @ The Atlantic
• Capote’s Typewriter Goes for $8,281 @ Publishers Weekly
• Today, Jesmyn Ward is at NYPL for my New Yorker People
• Strand shares underlines in used Louise Erdrich book @ Tumblr
• 

  Fitzgerald @ Scribner Tumblr

  Scribner shares Fitzgerald @ Tumblr

• Jo Ann Beard joins a conversation @ Center for Fiction.
• Anna Quindlen hates her job @ The Wall Street Journal
• Tracy K. Smith talks on WNYC @ WNYC
• You had me at “New Dave Eggers Novel….” @ The Millions
• Book People @ Ploughshares
• How “normal people” Price Blurbs @ The New Yorker
• More people write more rules on writing @ Nick Harkaway
• Hemingway to Fitzgerald @ Letters of Note
• Memoir – Dividing the Kingdom @ Granta
• Julie Andrews (Children’s Book Author) talks to Colbert @ The Colbert Report
• 

  Rejected Wizard of Oz Cover

  Rejected Wizard of Oz Photos @ Huff Post

• Vintage Books Podcast
• How successful was World Book Night @ Huff Post
• Stationary Craze @ The Guardian
• Kate Bernheimer celebrates Fairytales in new interview @ The Children’s Book Review
• Four Reasons to Read Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith (other than winning the Pulitzer in Poetry) @ Milkweed
• Most Notorious Literary Party Animals @ Flavorwire
• Nine Lessons from Female Fictional Literary Characters @ Oprah