laphamsquarterly:

A Presidential Miscellany

The inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44rd President of the United States takes place this weekend, and to celebrate, Lapham’s Quarterly has collaborated with the beautiful Thornwillow Press on a limited-edition libretto of presidential miscellany and a set of broadsides featuring presidential cocktails and drinks from past inaugurations.

Find out what the presidents drank, their modes of transportation, their favorite pets, and much more when you order a copy today!

4 months ago
awesomepeoplereading: Einstein reads.

awesomepeoplereading:

Einstein reads.

4 months ago
thepenguinpress: Fun with bananas.

thepenguinpress:

Fun with bananas.

4 months ago

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4 months ago
vintageanchor: The Two Raymond Chandler Sentences That Changed Walter Mosley’s Life… More here.

vintageanchor:

The Two Raymond Chandler Sentences That Changed Walter Mosley’s Life…


More here.

(Source: vintageanchorbooks)

4 months ago
slaughterhouse90210: “There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”— P.G. Wodehouse

slaughterhouse90210:

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
— P.G. Wodehouse

4 months ago
ourpresidents: Margaret Truman, about the age of five, wearing winter play clothes in the snowy yard of her home at 219 N. Delaware Street in Independence, MO.

ourpresidents:

Margaret Truman, about the age of five, wearing winter play clothes in the snowy yard of her home at 219 N. Delaware Street in Independence, MO.

4 months ago
fuckyeahmovieposters: Harold and Maude

fuckyeahmovieposters:

Harold and Maude

4 months ago

The Ten Best Fictional Bookstores

(Source: doubledaybooks)

4 months ago
aaknopf: bookriot: Happy birthday, Simone de Beauvoir! All Simone, All Day. 

aaknopf:

bookriot:

Happy birthday, Simone de Beauvoir!

All Simone, All Day. 

4 months ago
tayarijones: Summer Writing Opportunity:  Tin House Writer’s Workshop. [info] Anthony Doerr Benjamin Percy Charles D’Ambrosio Cheryl Strayed D.A. Powell Dana Spiotta David Shields Dorianne Laux Jess Walter Jim Shepard Karen Russell Karen Shepard Lan Samantha Chang Luis Alberto Urrea Maggie Nelson Major Jackson Steve Almond

tayarijones:

Summer Writing Opportunity:  Tin House Writer’s Workshop. [info]

Anthony Doerr
Benjamin Percy
Charles D’Ambrosio
Cheryl Strayed
D.A. Powell
Dana Spiotta
David Shields
Dorianne Laux
Jess Walter
Jim Shepard
Karen Russell
Karen Shepard
Lan Samantha Chang
Luis Alberto Urrea
Maggie Nelson
Major Jackson
Steve Almond

(via myimaginarybrooklyn)

4 months ago

staceythinx:

Stills from the first giant squid ever caught on film. The video will make its debut on the Discovery Channel’s Monster Squid: The Giant Is Real which premieres on January 27, 2013 at 8 PM ET/PT as the season finale of Curiosity. 

4 months ago
rollingstone: “One eye is green, the other alternately green and orange. The boots are bright red with two-and-a-half-inch risers. The blouse is orange see-through. The hair, dyed bright carrot, sticks straight up above the brow.” To celebrate his 66th birthday today, David Bowie broke his long musical silence with his new single “Where We Are Now?” from a forthcoming album due in March. For a more vintage look at Bowie, take a look back at our Nov 9, 1972 cover story.

rollingstone:

“One eye is green, the other alternately green and orange. The boots are bright red with two-and-a-half-inch risers. The blouse is orange see-through. The hair, dyed bright carrot, sticks straight up above the brow.”

To celebrate his 66th birthday today, David Bowie broke his long musical silence with his new single “Where We Are Now?” from a forthcoming album due in March. For a more vintage look at Bowie, take a look back at our Nov 9, 1972 cover story.

4 months ago

Where the Mind Is Without Fear

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

~ Rabindranath Tagore 

4 months ago
theswinginsixties: Steve McQueen

theswinginsixties:

Steve McQueen

(Source: weheartvintage.co)

4 months ago