Originally Posted By lessthanjake

lessthanjake: If you are coming to one of the TWO shows at the Brooklyn Bowl you can get one of the limited Edition LTJ Bowling Shirts! Only 50 made and ONLY available at the Brooklyn bowl shows. http://www.lessthanjaketix.com Oh shit, that’s awesome. Hope I get one tonight. (It’ll go well with the Mighty Mighty Bosstones bowling shirt I got at Warped Tour in bright orange 12 years ago).

lessthanjake:

If you are coming to one of the TWO shows at the Brooklyn Bowl you can get one of the limited Edition LTJ Bowling Shirts! Only 50 made and ONLY available at the Brooklyn bowl shows. http://www.lessthanjaketix.com

Oh shit, that’s awesome. Hope I get one tonight. (It’ll go well with the Mighty Mighty Bosstones bowling shirt I got at Warped Tour in bright orange 12 years ago).

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On devastating reads and the latest I’ve found…

Yesterday’s announcement that the anonymous Rumpus advice columnist Sugar (to read Sugar is to love Sugar) was a writer named Cheryl Strayed, brought me to read for the first time some of her writing published under her true byline.

“The Love Of My Life” published in The Sun Magazine (2002), a beautiful personal perfect essay that starts with the line:

THE FIRST TIME I cheated on my husband, my mother had been dead for exactly one week.

and a 4,500 word excerpt from her forthcoming (six figure deal) memoir Wild published in Vogue, Into the Woods, which would make anyone preorder that sure-to-be-amazing story.

And it all got me thinking about what I love to read. I’ve always found nothing more compelling than: brutally open and honest and true nonfiction first person literary personal memoir/essays. Bonus points if you’re male, coming of age, and writing about New York.

Likewise, they’ve mostly been male writers: Jonathan Ames, David Sedaris, Augusten Burroughs, Hunter S. Thompson, David Foster Wallace, John Jeremiah Sullivan, etc. but stand-out women like Zadie Smith, Sloane Crosby, and now Cheryl Strayed have started to balance out my list, because nothing has been more devastatingly personal, honest, open, self-aware, seedy, well-written, selfish, and true than  “The Love Of My Life” that I’ve read recently. It’s got everything to rope you in (death, drugs, sex, drama) but it’s the self-awareness that keeps you there. Read it.

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Originally Posted By quirkbooks

Book Publishing [What People Think I Do / What I Really Do meme] by quirkbooks

Book Publishing [What People Think I Do / What I Really Do meme]

by quirkbooks

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Originally Posted By noraleah

noraleah: “What is the secret to love? A secret is a secret and I don’t reveal my secrets!” —Ykov Shapirshteyn, Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. From a photo series of New York couples who have been together for 50 years or more (via Cup of Jo).

noraleah:

“What is the secret to love? A secret is a secret and I don’t reveal my secrets!”

—Ykov Shapirshteyn, Brighton Beach, Brooklyn.

From a photo series of New York couples who have been together for 50 years or more (via Cup of Jo).

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Vogue has published an excerpt from the upcoming wild by Cheryl Strayed (aka Sugar for The Rumpus). My solo hike on the Pacific Crest Trail—three months, 1,100 miles—had many beginnings. There was the first, flip decision to do it, followed by the second, more serious decision to actually do it, and then the weeks of shopping and packing and preparing to do it. There was the quitting of my job as a waitress and finalizing my divorce from a man I still loved and selling almost everything I owned and visiting my mother’s grave one last time. There was the driving across the country from Minneapolis to Portland, Oregon, and, a few days later, catching a flight to Los Angeles and a ride to the town of Mojave.

Vogue has published an excerpt from the upcoming wild by Cheryl Strayed (aka Sugar for The Rumpus).

My solo hike on the Pacific Crest Trail—three months, 1,100 miles—had many beginnings. There was the first, flip decision to do it, followed by the second, more serious decision to actually do it, and then the weeks of shopping and packing and preparing to do it. There was the quitting of my job as a waitress and finalizing my divorce from a man I still loved and selling almost everything I owned and visiting my mother’s grave one last time. There was the driving across the country from Minneapolis to Portland, Oregon, and, a few days later, catching a flight to Los Angeles and a ride to the town of Mojave.

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Santorum claims that the use of contraception has a “profound impact on the health of our society,” and he’s right, unintentionally: Contraception prevents STDs and unwanted pregnancies, and in the process, lowers government health-care spending and cuts down on those abortions Santorum is so dedicated to stopping. Because people are going to have sex — hedonistic, non-procreation-y sex — whether Father Santorum approves of it or not. A president who doesn’t accept that has lost touch with reality.

Rick Santorum Fine With Shaming Women in Certain Situations — Daily Intel
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Originally Posted By housingworksbookstore

housingworksbookstore: We just announced this event we’re having at Housing Works, with McNally Jackson, The Rumpus, and the newly “out” Dear Sugar herself, the inimitable Cheryl Strayed. It’s going to be amazing. So amazing. Get a ticket soon, it will sell out! Poster design and illustration by Andrea Sparacio. This will rock.

housingworksbookstore:

We just announced this event we’re having at Housing Works, with McNally Jackson, The Rumpus, and the newly “out” Dear Sugar herself, the inimitable Cheryl Strayed. It’s going to be amazing. So amazing. Get a ticket soon, it will sell out!

Poster design and illustration by Andrea Sparacio.

This will rock.

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Chloe Caldwell, The Last City I Loved #1: New York, NY - The Rumpus.net

It’s understandable that some people move to New York, give it three months, hate the fuck out of it, and move back to where they came from. This happens all the time. How could they not hate it? It’s so hate-able. It’s disgusting. It’s filled with shit and piss.

But then there’s the other side, when the piss and shit meets your needs. That was my side.

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The Book Bench: Dear Sugar’s True Identity : The New Yorker Over the next two years, Sugar’s fans—a devoted readership that includes more than fifteen thousand Facebook and Twitter followers—learned bits about who she was. She was a she. She had lost her mother far too early. She had children, a husband, student-loan debt, and a seemingly inexhaustible supply of open-minded, honest advice. Her responses covered jealousy, the decision to have (or not have) children, drug addiction, and the unanswerable questions of life. On Tuesday night, at a coming-out party in San Francisco, Sugar formally introduced herself as Cheryl Strayed, a writer living in Portland whose new memoir, “Wild,” will be the Rumpus Book Club’s pick for March.

The Book Bench: Dear Sugar’s True Identity : The New Yorker

Over the next two years, Sugar’s fans—a devoted readership that includes more than fifteen thousand Facebook and Twitter followers—learned bits about who she was. She was a she. She had lost her mother far too early. She had children, a husband, student-loan debt, and a seemingly inexhaustible supply of open-minded, honest advice. Her responses covered jealousy, the decision to have (or not have) children, drug addiction, and the unanswerable questions of life. On Tuesday night, at a coming-out party in San Francisco, Sugar formally introduced herself as Cheryl Strayed, a writer living in Portland whose new memoir, “Wild,” will be the Rumpus Book Club’s pick for March.

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I had the movie adaptation book cover (boo) of the Virgin Suicides, but am quite impressed with the other covers that are out there, of this one in particular, but also this one. and: and finally: ALL better than the movie-tie in.

I had the movie adaptation book cover (boo) of the Virgin Suicides, but am quite impressed with the other covers that are out there, of this one in particular, but also this one.

and:

and finally:

ALL better than the movie-tie in.

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The Virgin Suicides Trailer (1999) (by glows)

So I had never seen the movie (or even the trailer) before I started the book this week (and finished this morning). The book is awesome (and was a first novel for Eugenides) and powerful and crazy and then seeing that Sofia Coppola did the movie has me very excited to see that too.

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Originally Posted By stfuconservatives

stfuconservatives: A fun visual representation of how unbelievably pointless and wasteful Florida’s drug testing law is. Not pictured: the fact that that $178 million dollars went to a company owned by the governor’s wife. -Jess

stfuconservatives:

A fun visual representation of how unbelievably pointless and wasteful Florida’s drug testing law is. Not pictured: the fact that that $178 million dollars went to a company owned by the governor’s wife.

-Jess

(via thegreg)

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Documented pre dinner spread of gin martinis, Amsterdam cheese, and wasabi peas

Documented pre dinner spread of gin martinis, Amsterdam cheese, and wasabi peas

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Originally Posted By wordbrooklyn

mcnallyjackson: wordbrooklyn: Jenn has read books, and now she’s got the shirt to prove it! Have you also read books? You might need one. Having read a book or two in my day, I do, in fact, need one. That’s a cool shirt by a cool store.

mcnallyjackson:

wordbrooklyn:

Jenn has read books, and now she’s got the shirt to prove it! Have you also read books? You might need one.

Having read a book or two in my day, I do, in fact, need one.

That’s a cool shirt by a cool store.

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