@jeopardy immortalizing our 🔹quirky picks🔹re-reading spring awakening this weekend in honor of jamie ding and his brain (link in our bio to find a copy of the play at a bookstore near you) 🔁 freaking out
RUINS, CHILD is out! New conversation with @__giadina on reinventing the traditional structure of the novel
>> existing in a constant state of repair >> and celebrating the choruses of women who make the world worth living in. This book is like nothing we’ve ever read before. Full talk on libraryscience.net ⚠️ @ndpublishing
for april we are covering @__giadina ’s dizzying / kinetic debut novel RUINS, CHILD (published by @ndpublishing ) ⛓️The book releases April 7 but you can pre-order now - link in bio ⚠️ our highlighters are running out of ink ⚠️ this book is so special. conversation with the author to come. final cover art by @lornasimpson .
For Valentine’s Day, we built a dirty reading list with our friends at @forloveandlemons 🥀 We also made a little lingerie bag which can double as a single book bag 🪽Our list of literary erotica includes narrative fiction about love, desire, intimacy; theory about our relationship to the body; poetry for heartbreak - the angry kind. And of course, we’ve included a few titles you’ll find in the banned books section — each rejected, at the time they were initially published, for being too provocative, too obscene. It’s important to us that we note: most of these books are much older than we are and many are translations. We built it this way to acknowledge that eroticism is and has always been an important entry point into art, literature, and everything else. Enjoy 🏹
Love Poems, Rene Ricard
Our Lady of the Flowers, Jean Genet
Double Flame, Octavio Paz
A Ciel Ouvert, Nelly Arcane
A Love Affair, Dino Buzzati
Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller
I Want To Show You More, Jamie Quattro
Margery Kempe, Robert Gluck
Nightwood, Djuna Barnes
In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays, Anais Nin
february research 🏹 love lines 🏹
time took too much time (cookie mueller)
un-monster me (caleb femi)
love / hate (rene ricard)
inquiring body (clarice lispector)
little sluts (cookie mueller)
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Having @chloezhao and @maggieofarrellofficial on to discuss Hamnet - both the book and film - was a true honor. We are still crying. Please go watch. Full conversation on libraryscience.net 🥀 Cover image by Agata Grzybowska
we are revisiting Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet this month in honor of Chloé Zhao’s new, soul crushing adaptation. We will be releasing a conversation with Maggie and Chloé later this week 🫂 It is a really special experience to read the book before you watch the film. Both bring you into the trenches of grief in a way that is so delicate, your heart just kind of keeps breaking over and over. To our fellow masochists, enjoy 🪴
restock because you asked so nicely 🎁 XS-XL on libraryscience.net —- proceeds will support independent publishing partners and breakthrough playwrights (more on that soon) + actual bookmarks go out with every order 🫂
