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rachelfershleiser: Soon after, the blog and Kickstarter campaign caught the attention of Tumblr outreach specialist Rachel Fershleiser. Fershleiser had worked for a bookstore in New York for six years before joining the blogging site and dreamed of starting just the kind of place McSwain had in mind. She began to correspond with McSwain, and when she knew she would be in Chicago for the Association of Writers and Writers’ Programs conference in early March, she hit him up about doing a Tumblr promotion at the shop. On March 2, more than 100 Tumblr writers turned out at the tiny, still-unfinished bookstore at 2630 N. Milwaukee Ave. for the Tumblr writers’ meetup. McSwain sat humbled behind his desk, watching people squeeze against his bookshelves to make their way through the crowd and ringing up sales of his last copies of The Chicagoan. He watched his dream of an independent used bookstore—launched in a sketchy economy and unwanted by banks—make a splash of a debut with the power of a web-based financing site, Twitter and Tumblr. (via Uncharted Territory | LoganSquarist) Rachel is a Kingmaker. 

rachelfershleiser:

Soon after, the blog and Kickstarter campaign caught the attention of Tumblr outreach specialist Rachel Fershleiser. Fershleiser had worked for a bookstore in New York for six years before joining the blogging site and dreamed of starting just the kind of place McSwain had in mind. She began to correspond with McSwain, and when she knew she would be in Chicago for the Association of Writers and Writers’ Programs conference in early March, she hit him up about doing a Tumblr promotion at the shop.

On March 2, more than 100 Tumblr writers turned out at the tiny, still-unfinished bookstore at 2630 N. Milwaukee Ave. for the Tumblr writers’ meetup. McSwain sat humbled behind his desk, watching people squeeze against his bookshelves to make their way through the crowd and ringing up sales of his last copies of The Chicagoan. He watched his dream of an independent used bookstore—launched in a sketchy economy and unwanted by banks—make a splash of a debut with the power of a web-based financing site, Twitter and Tumblr.

(via Uncharted Territory | LoganSquarist)

Rachel is a Kingmaker. 

aaknopf: The Passage of Power is not only the story of how Lyndon B. Johnson surmounted unprecedented obstacles in order to fulfill the highest purpose of the presidency but is, as well, a revelation of both the pragmatic potential in the presidency and what can be accomplished when the chief executive has the vision and determination to move beyond the pragmatic and initiate programs designed to transform a nation. Available 5/1/2012. OK, well, I’m certainly glad it’s not out yet, because I’m only 300 pages into the first of the previous three books in this series; I should be getting to this one by the time Caro has finished volume 5….

aaknopf:

The Passage of Power is not only the story of how Lyndon B. Johnson surmounted unprecedented obstacles in order to fulfill the highest purpose of the presidency but is, as well, a revelation of both the pragmatic potential in the presidency and what can be accomplished when the chief executive has the vision and determination to move beyond the pragmatic and initiate programs designed to transform a nation. Available 5/1/2012.


OK, well, I’m certainly glad it’s not out yet, because I’m only 300 pages into the first of the previous three books in this series; I should be getting to this one by the time Caro has finished volume 5….

“I had only been using a typewriter because I’d gotten one for free and I was poor. In 1981, most people were still writing on typewriters. There were five large businesses in Vancouver that did nothing but repair and sell typewriters. Soon there were computers, too, and it was a case of the past and the future mutually coexisting. And then the past just goes away.”

Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 211, William Gibson
High-res rachelfershleiser: We are a worker-owned indie bookstore in Downtown Salina Kansas. We are artists, activists, writers, musicians and artisans dedicated to the health and wealth of North Central Kansas. We believe that independent bookstores are a human right and serve coffee made from beans roasted to perfection just days before, which is not a human right but a luxury we support. (via To the stars through books and coffee! by William Emery — Kickstarter) You guys! Please give your big city money to these wonderful Kansans running a wonderful bookstore collective! Ad Astra Per Books and Coffee! Done and done. Go and do likewise!

rachelfershleiser:

We are a worker-owned indie bookstore in Downtown Salina Kansas. We are artists, activists, writers, musicians and artisans dedicated to the health and wealth of North Central Kansas. We believe that independent bookstores are a human right and serve coffee made from beans roasted to perfection just days before, which is not a human right but a luxury we support.

(via To the stars through books and coffee! by William Emery — Kickstarter)

You guys! Please give your big city money to these wonderful Kansans running a wonderful bookstore collective!

Ad Astra Per Books and Coffee! Done and done. Go and do likewise!

High-res rachelfershleiser: Are you coming to AWP? Do you live in Chicago? Do you write, blog, or look at funny things on the internet? Please join us for free drinks, Tumblr goodies, and awesome people. Tumblr Writers Happy HourFriday 3/2, 6-8pmUncharted Books2630 N. Milwaukee Ave.Chicago Uncharted Books is a new bookstore that was funded on Kickstarter and had a Tumblr before it was born. It’s a dream spot for book-web-community nerds and I absolutely can’t wait to see it (and all of you.) Go! And when you’re saying hi to Rachel, be sure to complement compliment (Ed. Note: Oh, for Fuck’s sake) Zack on his excellent invitation…

rachelfershleiser:

Are you coming to AWP? Do you live in Chicago? Do you write, blog, or look at funny things on the internet? Please join us for free drinks, Tumblr goodies, and awesome people.

Tumblr Writers Happy Hour
Friday 3/2, 6-8pm
Uncharted Books
2630 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Chicago

Uncharted Books is a new bookstore that was funded on Kickstarter and had a Tumblr before it was born. It’s a dream spot for book-web-community nerds and I absolutely can’t wait to see it (and all of you.)

Go! And when you’re saying hi to Rachel, be sure to complement compliment (Ed. Note: Oh, for Fuck’s sake) Zack on his excellent invitation…

High-res fsgbooks: vikingpenguinbooks: How New York Pay Phones Became Guerrilla Libraries An interview with the creator The concept, sponsored by Locke’s imaginary Department of Urban Betterment, is that New Yorkers will pick up unfamiliar titles while running their errands and then, perhaps, replace them the next day with favorite books of their own. That’s in an ideal world. Of the twoguerrilla libraries that the artist has fashioned, one has been used properly while the other has had its entire collection repeatedly ganked by sticky-fingered pedestrians. Its shelves were also stolen. But Locke has many more libraries planned. With plywood consoles that slip over payphones as neatly as aprons, these sidewalk objets are endlessly replicable. (No doubt they’ll feature in his 2012 Columbia course, “Hacking the Urban Experience.”) I caught up with Locke over the weekend to ask him about what was and wasn’t working with these literary outposts, as well as why he started the project in the first place.  More at The Atlantic This is an incredible idea. I’m going to try and find one pronto. Honestly, Rachel, we’re going to have to get on this one. 

fsgbooks:

vikingpenguinbooks:

How New York Pay Phones Became Guerrilla Libraries

An interview with the creator

The concept, sponsored by Locke’s imaginary Department of Urban Betterment, is that New Yorkers will pick up unfamiliar titles while running their errands and then, perhaps, replace them the next day with favorite books of their own. That’s in an ideal world. Of the twoguerrilla libraries that the artist has fashioned, one has been used properly while the other has had its entire collection repeatedly ganked by sticky-fingered pedestrians. Its shelves were also stolen.

But Locke has many more libraries planned. With plywood consoles that slip over payphones as neatly as aprons, these sidewalk objets are endlessly replicable. (No doubt they’ll feature in his 2012 Columbia course, “Hacking the Urban Experience.”) I caught up with Locke over the weekend to ask him about what was and wasn’t working with these literary outposts, as well as why he started the project in the first place. 

More at The Atlantic

This is an incredible idea. I’m going to try and find one pronto.

Honestly, Rachel, we’re going to have to get on this one. 

(via aaknopf)