Surreality

from the Codex Seraphinianus

Smell of an Earlier Time

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"The books in the shelves in front of me, sure enough, are. . .mainly books of Japanese poetry. Tanka and haiku, essays on poetry, biographies of various poets. . . .When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages-- a special knowledge and emotions that for ages have been calmly resting between the covers." 

                                                 -- Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

That 70's Classic

We'll be closed Thanksgiving Day. 

Go read this 70's classic.

Come back to us on Friday

and Saturday (apparently newly dubbed Small Business Saturday)

To Be Young, Gifted, and Read

It is great that, on top of all the magical literature I read as a child, more and more will continue to be heaped against my advancing years. But greater than that are the likes of David Almond, whose supernatural gift for story distinctly glows, even in this never-ending pile of already sparkling voices. And that, at the end of my twenties, I should discover him and feel the wonder and terror of twelve again. (P.S. it is very much the feeling cast by "Moonrise Kingdom", as well.). 

excerpt of first chapter

Non-Fiction Factions

Don't overlook our non -fiction sections. We're not all fun and games here.

St. Sendak

I hope to heaven there is heaven for men like this:
If not, maybe literature could canonize its first saint?
Saints without heaven is not contradictory, is it?
As another should-be-saint has said:

Do I contradict myself? 
Very well, then I contradict myself, 
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
- Song of Myself

"---- them is what i say. 
I hate those ebooks. 
They cannot be the future. 
They may well be. 
I will be dead. 
I won't give a ----"


Oh, the poetry!
-js

Ps. we have a reasonable collection of Sendak's work besides the perennial darling, Where the Wild Things Are (see right).

(must not neglect this blog...)