Runaway…
Choose Your Own Adventure with Junot Díaz
Let’s play a game: a “lazy Sunday” version of a Choose Your Own Adventure novel. Ready? Good. Imagine you’re hanging out with Junot Díaz today. What do you want to do? Select Option A to go barhopping. Select Option B to go comic book shopping. Select Option C to read an excerpt from his new book, This Is How You Lose Her. Or Select Option D to read Leah Hager Cohen's review of the collection. There is no wrong answer.
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Sylvester Stallone, 35 Years of Paintings
“The State Russian Art Museum in St. Petersburg is hosting an exhibition of paintings by Hollywood icon Sylvester Stallone.”
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The Langston Hughes Comic
Recommended Viewing: Afua Richardson has illustrated Langston Hughes's poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."
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Portland’s Mini Libraries
Portland neighborhoods are nurturing camaraderie with little red library boxes.
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Tuesday New Release Day: Hustvedt; Poissant; Livers; Dermont; Kirn; Butler; Kerouac
Out this week: The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt; The Heaven of Animals by David James Poissant; Cementville by Paulette Livers; Damage Control by Amber Dermont; Blood Will Out by Up in the Air author Walter Kirn; Shotgun Lovesongs by Nickolas Butler; and The Haunted Life, a new collection of early writing by Jack Kerouac.
Brontë for Babies?
Brontë for babies? Board books, those small, sturdy volumes with the glossy cardboard "pages" - generally featuring rounded corners so babies who are teething don't cut their gums or poke out their eyes, are getting ludicrous. A new series, we're told on the back covers, "is a fashionable way to introduce your child to the world of classic literature."
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“It was a nasty autumn morning…”
A thoughtful piece of fiction to mark the November 10 anniversary of Atatürk's death.
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