The Common Reader

• Does your geography of interest include quipus, glaciers and menstruation? Then you need to come hear Cecilia Vicuna read for us tonight. #
• "If you liked it then you shoulda put a rein on it…." &c. &c. &c. #
• Working on a Beyonce-Cormac McCarthy mash-up behind the register: "All the pretty horses, all the pretty horses"–a new genre I call litpop #
• Planning our Halloween party. Psyched. #
• Dear young man who bought all of the dozen or so books of contemporary poetry I handed him: thanks, you made my evening. Enjoy 'Spit Stain' #
• RT @SPIEGELandGRAU: New adjective: Vonnegutian. Definition: awesome. Ex: Big Machine by LaValle is Vonnegutian. http://tinyurl.com/yddj747 #
• "Julia Child: Why She Ruined Everything" is not the title of tonight's event. Hard to sow discord about that woman. Anyhow, our cafe, 7PM. #
• Julia Child's jubilant meat-juicy fingers have touched your life in many ways. Help us (and Julie Powell) enumerate them, tonight at 7. #
• Well hell, the NYTBR actually got me excited about a book for once. I may read the new William Trevor. #
• Nancy Mauro: fantastic novelist, sewer of fake boars, queen of gold sequins. Yeah, it was a cool event tonight. #
• Nancy Mauro's debut novel is about the ad business and suburban tribalism. And feral pigs. And corpses? Drink with/fear her, here, at 7. #
• Spending my afternoon ordering stacks upon stacks of books for the New Yorker Festival signings October 17th-18th. My tedium is your gain! #
• On that note: is there anything worse than charity spam? Guilt and annoyance in one convenient package. #
• Whoops, I tried to help people help other people and my screwup cascaded down. Vote to help a good cause here instead: http://bit.ly/13cK8z #
• Vote to send a cousin of a bookseller to a conference for deserving charities. Deserving I say! http://tinyurl.com/nmkgw #
• Awww, We love your curatorial sense too Ryan! RT @chapmanchapman: My love letter to the great @mcnallyjackson bookshop: http://is.gd/3xIp1 #

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