“His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling.”
― Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume 1
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Libreria Fahreneit 451Piazza Campo dei Fiori, Rome, Italy
4.19.13
Books were my first friends.
During my lunch break I decided to check out this book shop/cafe in Dupont Circle. Cute little place, will definitely have to come here during the summer.
Shot with a Nikon D3100.
The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television. ~Andrew Ross
In Buenos Aries, is it bookstore or is it an opera house that sells books? Can you imagine this at the MET in NYC?
Puccini lovers delight in this Saturday night soundtrack!
America’s favorite bookstores.
Which ones did they leave out?
(via Editors’ Picks: Independent Bookstores - Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics)
Dubus is devastating in the best way, and this book is the perfect introduction to his work. I’m always shocked more people haven’t read him, as he is one of the best short story writers I’ve encountered. These Selected Stories are about Catholicism, and the Northeast and once the South, and boys and girls and the things they do to each other. Fall/winter is the perfect time to curl up with Papa Dre Dubs (my nickname you are welcome to adopt; I panic about pronouncing “Dubus” and to differentiate him from his talented son, Andre Dubus III).
“Of course, anyone who truly loves book buys more of them than he or she can hope to in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.” -David Quammen