yard sign in North SeattleBarak Obama's election night party in Chicago's Grant Park is expected to draw close to 1 million people.The folks at FiveThirtyEight shared this last night:“And I swore I’d be in Chicago tomorrow, and made sure of that, taking a bus to Chicago, spending most of my money, and didn’t give a damn, just as long as I’d be in Chicago tomorrow.”– Jack Kerouac, “On the Road”
Princeton – Bloomsbury
Princeton is a band from Santa Monica, CA who released their debut EP Bloomsbury this summer. The four-song disk is - as they explain - "based on the lives of four members of the influential Bloomsbury intellectual collective of the early 20th century. The songs are about Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf, John Maynard Keynes and Lytton Strachey." The whole disk can be streamed from their Myspace page (and available for a mere four bucks from iTunes). It's fun stuff, bound to appeal to the bibliophilic: clever, catchy, lush and literate. They remind me of Vampire Weekend (with whom they've performed),...
Technical Difficulties at Book Patrol
As some of you might have noticed Book Patrol was down for most of this past weekend.The problem was traced to the blog redirect function offered by the Blogger platform.We believe all is well now.We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused and are working to ensure such a prolonged outage won't happen again.
Librarians on the Runway
The event was the Style from the Stacks Fashion Show
The Literary Side of "Love and Death"
"I recall my first mystical vision. I was walking through the woods thinking about Christ. If he was a carpenter I wondered what he charged for bookshelves." - BorisFrom Woody Allen's 1975 film Love and Death; Allen's hysterical cinematic parody of Russian literature.Other literary tidbits from the film include:-"This is crazy I can't shoot a gun I was meant to write poetry" - Boris-there is a scene between Boris and his father where the entire dialogue between consists of allusions or direct references to Dostoevsky titles.-at one point during his brief stint as a poet Boris says while reading from...