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[A dog holds a sign in its mouth that reads, ‘I am a dog. I support same-sex marriage. It would effect me just as much as it would effect you.’]
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Book Typography!!
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16 Golden Globe Must-Reads
The 69th Golden Globes ceremony airs Sunday, January 15 – and adaptations are taking center stage! Check out...
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This is the bookstore I work at in Toronto. It is called Type Books. This video was shot primarily at the Queen Street West store (which I work at...
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Can’t wait to read A Queer and Pleasant Danger: A Memoir by Kate Bornstein - this is a beautiful book trailer, and while it might sound like it...
Out this Tuesday, May 29, Fred Pearce’s The Land Grabbers looks at the unprecedented land grab is taking place around the world. Wall Street, Chinese billionaires, oil sheikhs, agribusiness, and more are buying up huge tracts of land all over the world. See some of these purchases in this flier.
Have you had your animal video fix today? No? Then, watch this video taken by Beacon editor Alexis Rizutto of American Bison in Yellowstone National Park. It is estimated that 40 million bison once roamed the land. Then, they were hunted close to extinction. But thanks to conservation efforts, they now number nearly 450,000 in North America. Read about conservation efforts in Mr. Hornaday’s War.
We’re excited to show everyone the cover for Elinor Lipman’s TWEET LAND OF LIBERTY, on sale August 28! Want to pre-order? Interesting fact: the book came to be because of Grub Street’s 2012 Muse and Marketplace literary conference earlier this month.
Stefan Bechtel, author of Mr. Hornaday’s War, gives a short introduction to the book’s star: William Temple Hornaday!
Ain’t that the truth?!
A toast w. champagne & beluga
T-party didn’t like your style
They hate that reach across the aisle
From Kate Bornstein’s memoir, A Queer and Pleasant Danger, out now!
On April 27, 1882, the influential essayist, lecturer, and social reformer Ralph Waldo Emerson passed away. Nicknamed “the Concord Sage,” Emerson was a founding member of the Transcendentalism Movement and championed the free individual in a turbulent society. His masterful essay Nature and other essential writings are collected in The Spiritual Emerson.As a public intellectual in the mid-19th century, Emerson wrote numerous political essays and his best were collected in The Political Emerson.
A first look at the cover for the new edition of James Baldwin’s classic essay collection, Notes of a Native Son, coming out November 2012!
