Categotry Archives: Bookish Treasures
Help! I’ll Be Very Embarrassed if I’m the Weak Link at YA for NJ.
Yes, I know this isn’t about me. It’s about raising money for the Community Foodbank of New Jersey. But look: I want to be useful. And in this context, I am useful if someone (or a few someones) out there in the world are excited enough about getting a signed set of The Boneshaker, The Broken Lands, and The Kairos Mechanism that they’ll whip out their preferred means of online payment and bid like auction-crazed fools. The winner will be donating [...]
An Imaginary Curriculum: Which it’s Part the First of Kate’s Wild and Crazy Summer Reading Thoughts
A couple of days a week I work at my favorite bookstore, and last week I started one of my favorite projects: building the summer reads table for kids and teens. This got me thinking about all the research reading I’ve done over the last couple of years, the things I’ve learned since that weren’t part of my middle and high school education–discoveries of history, science, math, information theory, literature that I was lead to by people and projects I’ve [...]
Bookish Treasures on a Sweltering July Afternoon
It’s been something over a hundred degrees outside for most of the month, and far, far too hot to think. I’ve been revising (or, given the inversely proportional relationship in my world between rising temperatures and intellectual capability, let’s say I’ve been attempting to revise) so singlemindedly that I haven’t really had time to visit my own website and I miss posting, so I have shaken off my torpor as best I can to post about some recent bookish treasure [...]
Bookish Treasures: Today’s Weird Used Book Finds
A couple days ago I was hauling home my most recent bagful of Amazing Stuff found at SoHo’s Housing Works Bookstore and it occurred to me that my used bookstore finds might make for some interesting posts. Here, therefore, is the first installment of Bookish Treasures, featuring the incomparable Sprocket, who likes to curl up with a good book so much she often finds it necessary to actually lay on or near them, especially if I am trying to take [...]
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I wrote this book. Daniela Volpi took this picture.
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