Amazon “accidentally” provides for the book sales event at the same time as the independent day of the bookstore
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Amazon “accidentally” provides for the book sales event at the same time as the independent day of the bookstore
This Saturday was the day independent of the bookstore, a really fun day to be a book person with access and affinity for an independent bookstore. On April 15, Amazon announced a “weekly book” event that included on the 26th. Several people were not satisfied with this. And I can understand why of course. Amazon says it was involuntary, although of course, if you are an independent bookstore, it sounds pretty hollow. So it was intentional … or that was not the case. In my opinion, or a bad look for Amazon: either they are not the optics that would be bad and just wanted to flex anyway, or he did not understand that the optics would be bad. (The Machiavellian move would have been to have it the week before the day independent of the bookstore to advance all the marginal dollars of purchasing books and affirm: “We did not want to harm India!”).
“Poetry City”: Iowa City, Iowa
A fairly interesting city profile of Iowa City-that I will give in without protest as the most literary city in the United States on a basis per capita (1000 writers out of 75,000 citizens. The slope of the park could never). It is also a blow in the middle of Iowa, which, like the rest of the Midwest, has become red (and redest) in recent decades. I grew up in Lawrence, Kansas, the Maison de l’Université du Kansas, which enjoys / continued a similar status of an oasis of strangeness for its condition. Iowa City is emblematic, but dozens and dozens of university cities provide precious incubation and a respite to people who think and exist differently. We are lucky to have them and we must not take them to (land) granted.
The books of Marie-Helene Bertino with Marie-Helene Bertino
Last week, I had the great privilege of talking to Marie-Helene Bertino about her full work published. We talked about his five books in chronological order – what they meant at the time, how they connect to each other and what she thinks of them now. It was on the occasion of the publication of his new and excellent collection of news, Get zero. It is sometimes a good concert.
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