free harpoons.

May 2

lost & found: lost & found's may playlist

Our friend Peter Merriman graciously created a playlist for the store that (if you can believe it) is NOT hip hop inspired. Thank you for this.

What Narcissism Means to Me

1. I wanted to start the playlist with a Destroyer song, and I was going to use ‘Rubies,’ but then I pictured…

[SYNERGY dept.]

Apr 26

michellelegro:

Helooooooo Sam Waterston.

92y:

Sam Waterston, Charlotte Rampling and Robie Porter in James Salter’s lost film, “Three” (1969).

Susan Sontag introduced James Salter at a 92Y reading in 1997 with “If he can be described as a writer’s writer, then I think it’s just as true to say he’s a reader’s writer; that is, he’s a writer who particularly rewards those for whom reading is an intense pleasure and something that is a bit of an addiction. I myself put James Salter among the very few North American writers all of whose work I want to read and whose as yet unpublished books I wait for impatiently.”

Salter returns to 92Y on Monday night (Apr 29) with Richard Ford.

[Sam Waterston dept.]

Apr 23

[music]

Apr 8

copio:

Pro-Antagonist

[fine art dept.]

Mar 26

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…since English was no more than idle gossip about literary taste it was difficult to know how to make it unpleasant enough to qualify it as a proper academic pursuit. This, it might be said, is one of the few problems associated with the study of English which have since been effectively resolved.

- Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory: An Introduction

[books & design]

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