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Essays – Wallace Shawn
For this week’s Books in Motion we bring you a WNYC interview with Wallace Shawn on his book Essays. Wallace Shawn is ‘hands down’ one of my favorite writers of all time. Most well known for his cameo appearances in television and film (inconceivable!), Wallace Shawn is, at heart, a playwright. His book of... »
The Prince of Mist – Carlos Ruiz Zafón
I got really excited about Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s young-adult fiction because he is just the sort of writer I would have loved to read when I was growing up. I craved dark, mysterious tales of the unexplained, which of course exist in abundance — but I wanted them to take place in this one... »
All-Star Superman – Grant Morrison & Frank Quietly
Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely are geniuses. Maniacal and occult and challenging and profound, Morrison has the Midas touch as far as I’m concerned. And never is his writing more exceptional than when it’s paired with Quitely’s dense, precise artwork. I’ve been reading Superman since I could read anything at all and never a... »
A Sentimental Journey: Memoirs, 1917-1922 – Viktor Shklovsky
Among writers, Shklovsky is exceptional for his powerful and dispassionate prose style, which he uses to describe the desolation and confusion in the aftermath of the October Revolution. As a literary critic, he is surely among the most sober and laconic; strange as it may seem, his criticism is practical rather than academic, executed... »
City of Thieves – David Benioff
City of Thieves is a retelling of David Benioff’s grandfather’s experiences in Russia during WWII. The story follows his grandfather as he and a young soldier, Kolya, undertake an impossible errand for an army offical. Benioff’s narrative is immediately gripping, funny, tragic and beautiful. »
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter – Seth Grahame-Smith
Out now is Seth Grahame-Smith’s new novel, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter! Graham-Smith is the author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which quickly picked up a cult following leading to a tedious series from Quirk books (Quirk Classics, by Steve Hockensmith and Ben H. Winters). His new novel breaks away from the mash-up genre... »
Weekly Picks: Gift Books
This week we bring you a special edition of our weekly picks as a way of highlighting some of the amazing, beautiful pocket sized books we are carrying at the front desk. From various publishers, focusing on literary, political, philosophical, and critical theory, the portable well made books make perfect small gifts for any... »
The Fig by Ira J Condit
THE FIG: A Fruit of Ancient Origin! Here we feature an amazing 1947 publication – not intended to be a textbook or manual on practical fig culture, but a loving ode to the large, deciduous shrub or small tree native to southwest Asia and the eastern Mediterranean region. One of the first plants cultivated... »
From the Russian Desk, Supplement 1
A rash of savage murders break out across Moscow, the only similarity between the victims being that each is fair-haired and blue-eyed, and that each has his or her chest caved in, their hearts burst open by some unknown blunt force object. The murder weapon? A crude sledgehammer fashioned from a fallen chunk of... »
Reading the Troubles
When I was a teenager, I wanted to join the IRA. OK, I know that seems precocious at best and at worst, agonizingly stupid; as in, so aggressively stupid it makes you cringe (obnoxious in the way that eating a mealy apple can be). Like I said, though, I was a teenager. I did... »
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