Also in Suggested Reading,

Jesse Tangen-Mills has some ideas for books to bring to the bar with you during the World Cup over at The Millions.

For the record, I don’t really understand bringing books to the bar (especially, if the thing you’re avoiding is a riveting international sporting event, rather than the occasional unwanted conversation), but if you must ….

I mean, not to get all Seinfeld on this, but people don’t bring booze to the library.

Suggested Reading

Largehearted Boy put together its 2010 list of blogs to read. We’re not on it, it’s OK we’re just working really hard to get back to a very competitive level in ’14.

Next Tumblr-to-Book Deal,

White People Graffiti, you heard it here second.

I saw this on Superchief.

Another Hitch-22 review

and perhaps the last I’ll link to here: a careful consideration of the memoir by Ian Buruma in the New York Review of Books.

NYROB

Also, if you’re in New York and into this sort of thing:

Andy from Knife Fight and yours truly, will be DJ’ing a dance party at the loft above Public Assembly. It’ll be fun and it’s for a good cause. Details at Knife Fight.   

This is probably poor blog etiquette,

but we’ve been getting a lot of hits on our Salinger posts lately, presumably because of this piece in the New Yorker: Ian Frazier visits the marginalia specialist at the New York Public Library and discovers that Nabokov has graded an anthology of New Yorker stories and given Salinger the only A+, besides the one he awarded himself.

Enjoy (there’s more to the article than what I ran down above). I just like that there’s a marginalia specialist at the NYPL.

A Love Craft

Mike Force gave us the heads-up on a Lovecraft inspired art show at the Observatory in Brooklyn. It closes tomorrow, so get their while supplies last.

Amazon and B&N cut eReader prices the day after Father’s day:

Kindle is now listed at $189 on Amazon and Barnes & Noble is selling the new Nook Wi-Fi for $149.

Read more at Galley Cat.

Meanwhile on the otherside of town, Apple announces they’ve sold 3 million iPads in the first 80 days on-sale.

Hitchens new memoir on the front page of the Sunday Times Book Review

as with most of the reviews, there is a minor ache for the book to have been more literary than political memoir (i.e. divorces and subsequent or preceding cocktail hours with Salman and Martin), coupled with a general understanding that even with Hitchens’s rhetorical spirit: reconciliation can be hard to do.

I must add that Hitchens wrote the introduction to our little collection of H.P. Lovecraft’s atheist writings; I’m obliged.

NYT

This month’s reading at Chrystie Street: go there; blow your vuvuzela

Thursday, June 17, tune into poetry.  No, seriously.  Who cares about the World Cup (besides everybody) when there’s poetry to be heard?  Show up at the Four-Faced Liar for a knuckle-biting reading match of unmatched glory.  Still not convinced?  A) that’s dumb & B) actual soccer will probably be airing on the F-FL’s TV sets, anyhow.  Not that you care.  You love poetry!

THURSDAY, JUNE 17
7 M SHARP (ha ha, I know)
THE FOUR-FACED LIAR
165 West 4th Street, at 6th Avenue.

Rob MacDonald lives in Boston and is the editor of the online journal Sixth Finch. His poetry has appeared in various journals, including Octopus, Hanging Loose, No Tell Motel, Anti-, Diode, Free Verse, H_NGM_N and Sink Review. Last New Death, a chapbook, is available from Scantily Clad Press.

Stan Mir is the author of one full-length collection, Song & Glass (Subito Press), and two chapbooks, Flight Patterns and Test Patterns, both of which were published by the Brooklyn-based chapbook press JR Van Sant. He lives in Philadelphia where he runs the Chapter & Verse Reading Series with Ryan Eckes.