“Reading can be a refuge from other people.”
Artist-in-residence Flash Rosenberg’s artistic expression of the words of psychoanalyst Adam Phillips.
So true.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hoban, Russell.
Turtle diary / by Russell Hoban ; introduction by Ed Park.
pages cm. — (New York Review Books classics)
ISBN 978-1-59017-646-7 (pbk.)
1. Bookstores—Employees—Fiction. 2. Women authors—Fiction. 3. Turtles—Fiction. 4. Zoo animals—England—London—Fiction. 5. Psychological fiction. I. Park, Ed, 1970– II. Title.
PS3558.O336T87 2013
813’.54—dc23
2012045910It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes it seems like the Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication department really knows what will make us pick up a book.
(This post inspired by Michele Filgate and Liberty Hardy, whose love of books set in bookstores we share.)
It’s true! I’m kind of obsessed with books that are set in bookstores, books about books, and books about writers.
We’ve decided that our staff artist @perilouspaper is certifiably insane and probably a little masochistic too - but you really should still visit our garden.
AC (@perilouspaper) isn’t insane, but she IS insanely talented.
Franklin Park didn’t have the Bulls game on, but that was okay because they had a stacked bill of readers in the house.
(1) Karen Russell reads her short story, “The Graveless Doll of Eric Mutis” (2) Karen chats up fellow author Fiona Maazel w/ Roxane in the background (3) Leigh Newman (4) Tin House editor-at-large, Elissa Schappell (5) Leigh Newman reads from “Still Point North” (6) Roxane Gay reads her review of the movie Battleship (7) Roxane and Lauren Cerand (8) Michael Heald reads from “Goodbye To The Nervous Apprehension”
That’s the back of my head in the second photograph. I had so much fun listening to some of my favorite writers at last night’s Franklin Park reading. Major props to Penina Roth for running one of the best reading series in NYC!
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