“In photography and in writing, I want to give people the same sort of feeling which is that there is somebody else out there who is noticing the small things of life.” —Teju Cole

The author Teju Cole’s debut novel Open City won the 2012 Pen/Hemingway Award and was called “beautiful, subtle —and original….” by The New Yorker. He visited The Leonard Lopate Show Monday. Here is the latest installment of The Leonard Lopate Show Book Club.

Santigold gives a shout-out to Kurt Vonnegut and Breakfast of Champions in her interview with Soundcheck’s John Schaefer about her new album Master Of My Make-Believe.

utnereader:

Phone booths re-purposed as micro-libraries in New York City. (via Designboom)

redeyednblue:

Penguin Books Clothbound Classics. Need.

scribnerbooks:

This.

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theparisreview:

Catch-18

For Whom The Bell…. Rings -A.P.

rachelfershleiser:

noraleah:

Vintage paperback book favors at a London wedding.(via favorcraver, vogueandcoffee)

What a lovely way to share some of your favorite books with your guests. Though I would probably do it at a more intimate party and then ask everyone to play Book By Its Cover while we eat dessert. 

We do this for Housing Works weddings sometimes. Highly recommended. And cheap!

Will you marry me? —A.P.

Got overdue fines at the the library? Your debt can be forgiven—if you read. Read Down Your Fines is new program at the NYPL. Otherwise? Thrown to the lions, for shame. -L.A.

Some of Jennifer Egan’s favorite words, from this Q&A with the author for The Leonard Lopate Show’s Book Club: “…catholic, bizarre, pure, wisp, brutal, melt, transcendent, politics, careen, pierce, quizzical, fraught, shadow, toxic, whisper, parallel.”

Remember when the Strand had no AC but you went anyway and after sweating it out in “mass market paperbacks” and “Americana” for an hour it seemed so much cooler when you stepped back out onto Broadway plus you had an armful of new-to-you books so who cared how hot it was? —A.P.