The Common Reader

• Thus my favorite authors right now: Caryl Phillips and Patrick McGrath. Dislocated fiction or nothing at all! #
• I'm such a pushover for the spoken word. After almost every reading, that night's author is, for a few moments, my utter favorite. #
• Tonight at McNJ: New York State farmers and the writers who love them. #
• RT @nyrbclassics: rt @creativecommons Check out Jonathan Lethem's great Creative Commons–licensed Philip K. Dick essay http://bit.ly/3y5Dhu #
• Meet a real live farmer (two!) at tonight's panel about the future of small agriculture. Apparently that is still a job? Our cafe; 7PM. #
• Yes, we're excited! RT @loganberrybooks: @mcnallyjackson David Small AND Jules Feiffer? What a fantastic event! #
• A secret for our followers: David Small has his unseen graphic version of Freud's Civilization to show us tonight, too. Curious? #
• Have you read David Small's Stitches yet? Amazing graphic memoir. Ridiculous talent. He's in tonight to read and talk to Jules Feiffer. 7PM #
• It's a cute-off: Josh Kilmer-Purcell (tonight's reader) v. his goats. http://bit.ly/C4uWH #
• Swoonfest '09: John Krasinksi (from The Office & Away We Go) here TONIGHT at 5 pm to discuss Brief Interviews #
• Best customer comment this week: "This is the bookstore from the show!" #

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• 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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• Tonight we have the story of the little online graphic novel that could: Josh Neufeld and his editors (and his slideshow) are here at 7. #
• I get this question five times a day. People are excited! RT @arrbecca: @oblongirl @greenlightbklyn is opening as soon as it possibly can. #
• Flipping through Julia Glass' latest this afternoon. People call it touching, but it's also pretty damn funny. She reads for us tonight at 7 #
• RT @notfortourists: Nice @nycgo photo tour of 10 indie bookstores like @mcnallyjackson @bookculture @BookCourt http://bit.ly/3BpmP3 #
• I'm settling in for a long night guarding the new Dan Brown. I just noetically willed a cot and sandwich into being, so I should be set. #
• We do too. RT @vol1brooklyn Gigantic Magazine gets a new website, and we get excited http://bit.ly/M2T6o (@giganticmag) #
• No need to embellish this with tweetjokes. Anita Diamant reads in our store tonight at 7. Come early for a seat. #
• My own DFW reaction from a year ago: http://tinyurl.com/p2ej2p . Similar to RT @chapmanchapman: Remembering DFW http://is.gd/3cy1j #
• Feast of San Gennaro in our nayb right now. Starting today, he's the patron saint of buying an awesome book or two to go with your cannoli. #
• RT @RonHogan: Mainstream book review sections aspiring to be literary standard bearers quite often don't grok popular fiction. #
• RT @nplusonemag Literary discovery: Where the "Michael Pemulis" of Infinite Jest came from. http://j.mp/RVhhN #

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• There are no better bookstore customers than ours. It's just a fact. Proven by science. Also, my dad can probably beat up your dad. #
• The Columbia writing program takes us by storm tonight! Kirshenbaum and Shattuck in our cafe at 7pm. #
• Bookselling superfriends! Hide your wallets! RT @bookavore: RT @vromans: http://yfrog.com/0tq3sej #
• I concur, those are great. RT @bookavore: @emilyrmurtagh Susan's Cooper THE DARK IS RISING series? #
• Dan Graham is cooler than you. It's true. Just accept it and come hear him talk about art and music in our cafe at 7 tonight. #
• Dan Graham's in the store tomorrow to talk about rock music. Yes this Dan Graham: http://tinyurl.com/mp6e4k . Yes our store. #
• Easily one of the best online litmags. RT @readandbreathe: RT @ScottEsposito Fall Issue of The Quarterly Conversation: http://bit.ly/qXZ1l #
• Agreed! RT @readandbreathe: I feel like I've just downed several espressos when someone buys a book I rec. Selling books = adrenaline rush! #
• Think I'll celebrate Labor Day by carrying these stacks of books extra slowly. That'll teach somebody a lesson! Dunno who, but … #
• The entire world seems to be celebrating the working class by buying books from us today. We feel popular. #
• Just discovered this: http://www.savethewords.org. I'd be a gleimous tortiloquist if I said these traboccant archaisms don't queme me to no end #

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• Customer just called asking for a Lispector book. Told him Ben Moser reads his new biography of her here tonight at 7. YOU ARE WELCOME SIR. #
• Another amazing fall book to be excited about: RT @FSG_Books: Joy Decision: Bookforum on Richard Powers' Generosity. http://bit.ly/4hWz2M #

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• Q: How many things are better than a new issue of n+1 (@nplusonemag)? A: Not that many things. On our shelves as of +/- ten minutes ago! #
• Nick McDonell's in our store at 7 this evening. Just hanging out. Maybe he'll read from his new An Expensive Education. If he feels like it. #
• I love Jim Krusoe's fiction almost as much as his eyebrows. He's in our store as I type this, getting set to read at 7. #

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• Mary Who-skill? Gatskell? Gaitspill? Anyhow this Mary person will be reading in our cafe, tonight, 7pm. Never heard of her. Is she good? #
• Oops, correction: I've just been told they'll be sitting behind a table discussing the meaning of skateboarding. Not shredding. My mistake. #
• Joel, Bret Anthony Johnston, Benjamin Strong and Jocko Weyland will be here tonight shredding the mini-ramp we've built in the cafe #
• Flip out: Joel Rice (@flipacolumn) has a new column up at McSwy's delving deeper into the world of Christian skaters: http://tiny.cc/flip4 #
• Fairly certain that @rwetzler is one of my favorite customers in the city. Just sold her The Big Archive: Art from Bureaucracy by Spieker #
• Saw a woman bike across the bridge wearing pink suede pumps this morning. I was too awestruck to say anything. Also, buy our books. #
• We're not too old to be emo. @hitsong , @amandastern, @maudnewton and Josh Kilmer-Purcell discuss heartbreak in our store tonight, 7pm. #
• Paper Monument's Roger and Dushko on the Brian Lehrer Show: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/episodes/2009/08/18/segments/138842 #
• Oh man oh man oh man. Getting really excited for The Meaning of Skateboarding tomorrow night. http://tiny.cc/skateforum #
• Huzzah! Go Jessica! RT @greenlightbklyn Greenlight Bookstore on AOL's new Startup site! http://bit.ly/aYQ7e #
• Liz Thorpe (of Murray's Cheese) works to reclaim the phrase "American cheese" back from Philip Morris/Kraft tonight. Our cafe, 7PM. #
• Bret Anthony Johnston and Jocko Weyland will be here too. Curious? Here's all the info: http://tiny.cc/skateforum #
• RT @believermag Believers Joel Rice and Ben Strong are @mcnallyjackson this Thursday at 7 for a forum on the Meaning of Skateboarding #

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• Speaking of BAJ, did you read Joel Rice's interview w/ him at McSweeney's (http://tiny.cc/sWi7n)? Joel (@flipacolumn) will be here 8/20 too! #
• Bret Anthony Johnston in the Times on NYC skate hero Andy Kessler (http://tiny.cc/eb87P); Bret's here 8/20 for our forum on skateboarding #
• From our Sarabande reading last night: "Unable to tell if they are gods or servants of the frail, fertile world." – Gabriel Fried #
• Some of the best moments from last night's Sarabande reading: "he was/ agape, always always, agape." – Cate Marvin #
• Somehow the paperback of Nam Le's The Boat looks even better than the hardcover. Large fonts carry the day again! #
• Niffenegger fever: catch it! #
• We're jealous! RT @skylightbooks: What's that you say? Vollmann is reading here tomorrow night? O! M! G! Be here: 7:30 pm, Tuesday. #
• Word just came in that Julie Powell will be here for our panel on Julia Child Sep. 24th. We're psyched! #
• I'm excited over my new office chair. Not amazing, just not broken. Never let anyone tell you booksellers don't lead a thrilling life. #
• Just spent my weekend inhaling Victor Lavelle's Big Machine. That is a hell of a compelling book. Wait, he's coming to McNJ? You don't say! #

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• Our event tonight features Simon Rich "and friends". I'm terrified that might mean puppets. #
• Ooh, we just got the Paper Monument pamphlet "I like your work: art & etiquette"! Looks pretty and v. edifying. (Rule 3: Don't wear khakis) #
• Well thank you @stephauteri , it's good to be seen on Twitter. #
• Tonight's reading was funny as hell. We even had a deadpan professor in there to show all the comic writers how it's really done. #
• Got in wine and cupcakes for tonight, now all I need are a handful of great authors, including Ian Frazier and Patricia Marx. #
• Hooray, I'm internet-famous ! RT @mdash: [Blog Post] Three questions with Dustin from @mcnallyjackson http://is.gd/1ZLja #
• Finally got to flip through Vollman's new Imperial while at the store today. I'm sold. #
• No of course I don't want to read this enthralling erotic time-travel werewolves w/ lasers mm. I must. It's my job. #lifeofabookseller #
• I'll begin. I eat four oddly-timed meals a day, at least two wolfed down while hurriedly scanning reviews . #lifeofabookseller #
• Let's whine/celebrate ourselves together! #lifeofabookseller #

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• Great news about the event series @RonHogan ! I'm excited to see who comes through. #
• RT @AnnKingman @AAKnopf: Win a trip to Stockholm in honor of Stieg Larsson's 2nd book The Girl who #playedwithfire (link!) http://ow.ly/iqjm #
• Calling all Nerds (and this is twitter: we're all nerds here)! Ben Nugent is in tonight to discuss 'American Nerd' his hist. of the species. #
• "I dislike the taste of Dave Eggers." OR "Booksellers are the new circus geeks." http://tiny.cc/QpSNY #daveeggers #

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