I would like to sound like a reasonable person and say yes… but no.

Annoying. This is going to be challenging.

Must have. Looking for a copy now.

Ooo! I don’t have that one though I’ve read about it. You’ve just sent me searching for a copy!

Indeterminate Inflorescence Kick against words like you would kick back on a swing. You’ve got to feel as if the soles of your feet are touching the sky. Indeterminate Inflorescence is a collection of meditations on poetry, art...

This book saved me from despair and defeat. This book made me into a novelist. I love this book so much that I translated it and got it published in English. I owe everything to this book.

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UK: www.penguin.co.uk/books/463848...

And big approval on the new bookmark, Two Lines!!

Through the mail slot today. Night Train by Xu Zechen, translated from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang. And Lázár by Nelio Biedermann, translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch. @twolinespress.com @summitbooks.bsky.social

The Power of Public Libraries: Toni Morrison Reflects on the New York Public Library's Impact YouTube video by Life Stories

In honor of National Library Week, an extensive video interview with Toni Morrison about the New York Public Library.

And Morrison's 2018 statement "Tell City Leaders to Invest in Libraries."

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Museum. Lunch. Bookstore (see below). And now the sun comes out. An ideal Sunday.

… so I decided to go hang out at the National Gallery of Art for a while. Always a good idea.

I felt like this…

REVIEW: The Endless Week by Laura Vazquez Adam Kosan on Vazquez's "strange, mundanely delirious novel" out from Dorothy.

A fantastic essay on THE ENDLESS WEEK by Laura Vazquez (translated by Alex Niemi):

"I doubt there will be many novels published in the near future that will work this powerfully on our language—and so on our sense of ourselves and our world."

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I’ll look for it. Thanks!

Ready for another content label here (!!!) but this Brigid Brophy novel is excellent.

Thank you! I’m very interested.

❤️

And I love that little edition of Toward Eternity. Adorable. And the subject of boredom is one I talk about with kids all the time. They complain that they can’t have their phones during school. They devise ingenious hacks to get around school internet filters. Completely addicted to screens. Sigh.

Well then I hope everyone is. That she can feel her credits being typed out, hear her name whispered in socials. I’m already dipping into this one. Loving that it’s a bilingual text. Wishing I spoke better Italian.

Through the mail slot today. Last Stops of the Night Journey by Milo De Angelis, translated from the Italian by Patrizio Ceccagnoli, Susan Stewart.

Really? A content label?

Reading The King of a Rainy Country by Brigid Brophy, recommended by @spaceisagrail.bsky.social. Thinking this will be my next pick for @onebrightbook.bsky.social. There is this wonderful sense of freedom, abandon at the same time we feel Brophy intentionally molding her story. With great precision.

And Happy Friday to you too! Your reading life right now looks absolutely yummy in these images.

The Witch would be my weekend recommendation. Of course.

Really miss the FOMCL temp store in downtown Silver Spring. The things I found there!!

I’ve actually found more things at the branch inside Wheaton library rather than Rockville. On break this week and I made a wish list for summer road trip bookstore hunts. It makes my heart happy to look at it.

Yes, libraries are invaluable for their collections and services they offer, but also social contact without the expectation to interact with anyone or spend money is so important to so many people

Second Story Books warehouse in Rockville

It’s one by Sarton I haven’t read yet so I scooped it up.

Second Story Books warehouse in Rockville. They are getting ready to open a rare books room there in May too. Very excited.

I’m looking forward to it!