BookStalked: Amanda Bullock, Event Coordinator at Housing Works (NYC)
Get to know your event coordinator.
Remember back in my first BookStalked post when I said I’d be interviewing not just authors, but also various other important/cool folk in the New York lit scene? Without further ado, allow me to introduce Amanda Bullock, the Director of Public Programming at the popular non-profit Housing Works Bookstore Cafe. I’ve always appreciated Housing Works for hosting such a fun variety of events—from panels to concerts to Moth StorySLAMs to Friday night happy hours. And there are also, of course, the great readings—in just the past few weeks, Patti Smith, Ben Marcus and Sara Benincasa have all graced the stage. Amanda has some amazing stories from her time as director (including, yes, public urination), shared after the jump.
Yay Lev!
Lev Grossman on the codex, inheritable libraries, and how physical books are kinda like wifi.
Reading the future: Digital books and what's to come for literature
Far from killing off the physical page, the rise of ebooks has enhanced our understanding of the written word and the people around it, says Gaby Wood
… things are settling to a point where the physical and the digital have a much more co-operative relationship. For instance, it’s a commonplace that people no longer print their family snaps because everything is taken on digital cameras; but now the ease of digital publishing means that, if you choose to, you can design and order up a much more sophisticated photograph album than you ever could before. Equally, digitisation is encouraging the growth of small magazines, fostering a new burst of creativity, and traditional publishers can print on demand.
via The Telegraph
Hey Girl,
I thought you’d appreciate this “Hey Girl”—I hope it makes this winter Thursday feel like a summer Friday.
If you know you want to gift someone a book this year, but are unsure what to get them and don’t want to just slap ‘em with a gift card, why not try our Penguin Holiday eSampler?
This is a collection of over forty excerpts from some of our favorite 2011 books, recent classics, and previews of a few upcoming 2012 titles.
And did I mention it’s free? It’s like we’ve curated a tiny little bookstore for you to browse through (except in this bookstore the wearing of pants is not required, and we definitely encourage excessive cookie eating/Robyn sing-a-long-ing), so hopefully you’ll find something you like. You might want to start apologizing to your to-read lists now.
Seen in the office. Not a good sign.
This was popular in the office today.
