The Twin Cities Book Festival has announced some of the authors who will be reading at this year's event, and it's a list full of big names. Among the attendees will beNicholson Baker (Vox, The Mezzanine)Robert Olen Butler (A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, They Whisper)Lorrie Moore (Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?, Birds … Continue reading Twin Cities Book Festival Authors Announced
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Deborah Bowness makes trompe l'oeil wallpapers. Her photorealistic designs include chairs, lamps, and books, so you can get a library without all that difficult reading. If those are too high falutin' for you, she also does a nifty pattern of filing cabinets.Thanks to New York Times for the catch.--David E
I Might Actually Buy That
It's a strange day when Yale University Press appears in the New York Times' blog The Moment, which more often chronicles $600 Armani tshirts and other such nonessentials. But that's just what happened today when the blog posted an item about Lived in London: Blue Plaques and The Stories Behind Them. The book, out this … Continue reading I Might Actually Buy That
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