Borders may be on the brink of liquidation. If the deal goes through, you may be able to score some excellent deals.
Borders may liquidate
RIP Mavis Gallant
The Canadian writer Mavis Gallant passed away on Tuesday morning at the age of 91. A frequent New Yorker contributor, Gallant published two novels and ten volumes of short fiction in her lifetime, one of which, Home Truths, won the Governor General’s Award. The Globe and Mail's obituary describes her as having “a journalist’s nose, a cinematographer’s eye and a novelist’s imagination.” (Andrew Saikali wrote about Gallant for The Millions back in 2008.)
“Life around the pool”
Recommended Reading: Colm Tóibín on a new biography of the artist David Hockney.
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Beholden Like Us
It may comfort you to know that Susan Orlean claims to have “a sad dependence” on her iPhone. The New Yorker staff writer, who published an article (paywall) on the Twitter account Horse_ebooks this week, tells Bobby Finger that she had to buy a new battery case because she ran through the charge on her phone by the middle of the day.
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Creative Walking
Expert walker and poet Jon Cotner, coauthor of Ten Walks/Two Talks, will lead a set of excursions on NYC streets during the month of June. Walkers will be given two lines to repeat to strangers, in an attempt to break down social barriers: “Anonymity dissolves. Spontaneous societies arise.”
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A Heartbreaking Playlist of Staggering Sadness
Emma Straub's super sad true Year In Reading entry had our eyes welling up just from its synopses, but now Ms. Straub's put together an extremely sad playlist to keep you depressed through all of February.
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Rocker Lit
First there was Keith Richards's autobiography, Life. Now he is writing a children's book, complete with illustrations by his daughter. Gus & Me tells the story of Richards's bond with his grandfather, which is slightly more normal than snorting his dad's ashes.
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Borders pretty much gone here in Australia, despite some attempts to keep it going. They are selling the bookshelves and the books half price.
I find it hard to get excited about a momentary deal on books when an entire chain of bookstores is on the brink of permanently closing it’s doors!!