“Since I often biked to my therapist’s, he took note of my helmet and asked how my new exercise regimen was going. It’s going great! I said. I love it! I wish I’d known earlier that I ought to bike. Now I hated going underground. It was like the death instinct to go underground, into the subway. I never realized I hated it so utterly until I didn’t have to do it anymore.” On riding a bike in New York.
“Then suddenly, a bicycle”
NYPL Forgives Late Fees
The New York Public Library is granting amnesty to 143,000 kids' late fees. $1 will be knocked off each kid's fee for every 15 minutes they spend in the library's Summer Reading Program.
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The Illustrated Road
Recommended Viewing: Paul Rogers illustrated every page of Jack Kerouac's On the Road.
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King’s Revival
Last week, we reported that Stephen King's first hard-boiled detective novel, Mr. Mercedes, will be out this June. If thrillers aren't your thing, though, King has another horror novel coming out this November, Revival. It tells the story of the dangerous bond between a charismatic minister and a heroin addict musician.
He’s Got Game. Literary Game.
I could tease and build up Allison Hill's article on "Literary Seductions", or I could just let the first line entice you on its own: "I once slept with a man because he gave me a copy of Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle."
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Tuesday New Release Day: Kincaid, Sendak, Shields, Suri, Capote, Wayne, Wodehouse, Nadler, Sloss, Bauer, Wolf, Guthrie
A very big week for new books: See Now Then by Jamaica Kincaid; My Brother's Book, the last book completed by Maurice Sendak before his death in May 2012; How Literature Saved My Life by David Shields; The City of Devi by Manil Suri; a new edition of Breakfast at Tiffany's & Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote; The Love Song of Jonny Valentine by Teddy Wayne (see our interview today); P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters; Wise Men by Stuart Nadler; debut novels Autobiography of Us by Aria Beth Sloss and Frances and Bernard by Carlene Bauer; City of Angels, an autobiographical novel by Christa Wolf; and House of Earth, the lost novel of Woody Guthrie.
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