Are there any 24-hour bookstores?

My girlfriend and I were talking about how fun it might be to spend the night in an empty bookstore, like the huge Powell’s City of Books in Portland Oregon, when it suddenly occurred to me that if you can get a burrito at 2 AM, photocopies at 3, and a doughnut with those little sprinkly things at 4, why can’t ( Read more... )

Resume with Monsters by William Browning Spencer is a book I'm really fond of. It's a fun blend of dark weirdness and the trials of an apparent nobody working a series of soul-crushing temp jobs (I love where he discovers that the lousy boss we've all had is actually summoning up Dark Powers in his office when the door is closed) while trying to ( Read more... )

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Book covers.

They shouldn’t matter as much as they do I suppose, and yet...

There is something intensely satisfying about a book beautifully bound (sounds vaguely BDSM-like. . . literary bondage perhaps?) and wrapped in a worthy cover.

The newer trade paperback edition of Little, Big for instance finally has a cover to match the fascination ( Read more... )

~from If On a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino:

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"In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for.

"Following this visual trail, you have forced your way through the shop past the thick barricade of Books You Haven't Read, which were frowning at you from the tables and shelves, trying to ( Read more... )

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