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“I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.”
―Dave Eggers, What is the What
Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot.
But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.
From the National Book Festival (Washington, DC), September 2011. He was awesome and so worth the wait in line. I can now cross meeting my favorite author off my bucket list.
The Dave Eggers shower curtain.
“The Thing, the quarterly that issues objects that are art-ish or connected to literature, will publish a short story shower curtain by Dave Eggers later this month. It is The Thing Issue 16. Previous issues of The Thing include a cutting board seared with a short story by Starlee Kine, a Miranda July window shade, and a pair of glasses to go with Jonathan Lethem’s novel “Chronic City” — all of which have sold out.
Eggers’ books include “Zeitoun,” “What is the What,” and “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.” He is the founding editor of the website, magazine and publishing house McSweeney’s, also known for creating interesting editions for print. And he founded the nonprofit 826, which has literacy centers in eight cities, including Los Angeles.
The shower curtain is a short story monologue by the shower curtain to Eggers, or to the bather, or, because it faces out, to someone brushing her teeth. It costs $65.”
More in the LA Times here.
World Book Night to spread the word.
Here are the 30 titles that will be given away on World Book Night, April 23. One million books are to be given away by 50,000 volunteer “book givers.”
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (Ballantine)
Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger (Da Capo)
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (Beacon Press)
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card (Tor)
Little Bee by Chris Cleave (Simon & Schuster)
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)
Blood Work by Michael Connelly (Grand Central)
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz (Riverhead); a Spanish-language edition, La breve y maravillosa vida de Óscar Wao (Vintage Espanol), will also be made available.
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick)
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers (Vintage)
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger (Grove Atlantic)
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick (Algonquin)
Q is for Quarry by Sue Grafton (Berkley)
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead)
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (Ballantine)
The Stand by Stephen King (Anchor)
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (Perennial)
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss (W.W. Norton)
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner)
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien (Mariner)
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (Perennial)
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult (Atria)
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (Picador)
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (Back Bay)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (Broadway)
Just Kids by Patti Smith (Ecco)
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (Scribner)
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
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Volunteer book givers are welcome to apply now. They can go to www.us.worldbooknight.org and register through February 1, 2012, by providing answers to several questions and picking a book to give out from the World Book Night U.S. 2012 list.
Read more here.
This Weekend The National Book Festival Brings Dave Eggers, Jennifer Egan, and Toni Morrison to the National Mall in Washington, DC…
“Remember books? Those little sources of paper entertainment now contained in your Kindle or iPad? Yeah, we thought so. Miss them a little? Yeah, we thought so.
Fortunately, the National Book Festival, running Sept. 24-25, will gather dozens of authors on the National Mall for discussions, signings, bookselling and even the reading of Julianne Moore’s children’s book — by the author/actress herself.
Catch authors such as Pulitzer Prize winners Toni Morrison, Jennifer Egan and Michael Cunningham; plus Dave Eggers, Garrison Keillor, David McCullough and Sarah Vowell. See the complete schedule here (http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/schedule/).
Plenty of authors of kids’ books and teens lit will be there as well, including Sarah Desson (and do we really need to mention Julianne Moore again? Because we will).”
—Carissa DiMargo, NBC News
She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present, she needs to page through the past, and when she does, she remembers things, and her new journal entries become, for the most part, reactions to the days she regrets, wants to correct, rewrite.
We would oppose the turning of the planet and refuse the setting of the sun.
(Source: cherry-blossomsss)
His lies were so exquisite I almost wept.
(Source: floralibus)
