May 2012
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Friends of booksellers, assemble! →
mesjak: Word comes from my friends at the The Book Cellar in Lincoln Square, Chicago, that one of their booksellers, Jon Fullmer, and his wife Amelia, have lost everything after a devastating apartment fire on May 24. Their first child is due next month. Until their renters insurance kicks in, they’ve got nothing.  And not to distract from the real tragedy of losing all their day-to-day...
May 27th
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May 25th
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“Django Reinhardt was a prodigy at thirteen playing the cafés of Paris. A burn...”
– from The Lola Quartet (via unbridledbooks)
May 25th
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May 23rd
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“He’d recently come out of rehab for the second time and he felt skinless, his...”
– from The Lola Quartet (via unbridledbooks)
May 22nd
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May 21st
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May 19th
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May 19th
“Is your character Gavin based on a vampire?” the interviewer asked. “No,” I said.
May 16th
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Unbridled Books: The tattoo story:  →
unbridledbooks: The tattoo story: before she transferred to Gavin’s high school Anna had run away three times in search of peace and quiet or maybe in search of adventure and change, the story shifted a bit with each telling. She’d fallen in with a dangerous crowd at her old school and a police officer…
May 9th
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“The Lola Quartet was playing “Bei Mir Bist Du Schön” for the second time and a...”
– Emily St. John Mandel, from The Lola Quartet (via unbridledbooks)
May 7th
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