Colm Toibin, author of The Blackwater Lightship among many other prize-winning novels, has given a very strange interview to The Manchester Review. For example: What do you enjoy most about your life as a writer?The money. I never knew there would be money. It is such a surprise. And I like not having to leave … Continue reading "I don’t have any rules or principles."
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Don’t Forget Tom Davis
Saturday Night Live alum and now author Tom Davis will be in Minneapolis to discuss his memoir Thirty-Nine Years of Short-Term Memory Loss: The Early Days of SNL from Someone who Was There. Magers & Quinn Booksellers is pleased to host a reading by Tom Davis at Lyndale United Church of Christ, 31st and Aldrich … Continue reading Don’t Forget Tom Davis
Literate Locusts
These photos were taken at an warehouse near Bristol, England, last month. The books were abandoned by online dealer Bookbarn after its lease expired. The warehouse owner opened the doors to all comers, and the result was "like a swarm of locusts."Details are here.--David E
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