March 2011
63 posts
"Lana Turner has Collapsed!" by Frank O’Hara
We love this poem. And Lana Turner. Do get up.
libraryland:
I was trotting along and suddenly
it started raining and snowing
and you said it was hailing
but hailing hits you on the head
hard so it was really snowing and
raining and I was in such a hurry
to meet you but the traffic
was acting exactly like the sky
and suddenly I see the headline
LANA TURNER HAS COLLAPSED!
there is no...
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Guess That Tool
All right nerdbots, we know you know books, but how well do you know your tools? The first person to write in with the correct name of the tool shown on the cover of our Spring issue will win a free copy of “Lines of Work” when it arrives.
Email contests@laphamsquarterly.org with your answer, that’s the only place we’ll get our winner from!
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February 2011
42 posts
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If Walt Whitman wrote for Groupon
wwnorton:
Buy One Round of Mini Golf and GET 2 ROUNDS FREE!
Roll on the turf! Let the spheres in their brilliant colors explore the textures alive under foot. The angles and contours
are the very pleasures of existence! To see our world miniature, without taking flight; the great challenge of humankind.
We’ll play until star fall is upon us and the smallest fracture of wind moves the lighting...
The staff recommends...
We heartily recommend our favorite bookstores this week. Because they’d never sell James Michener at $1.99 a pound.
Housing Works Bookstore
McNally Jackson
Word Brooklyn
Tattered Cover
And even though it’s not a bookstore, they are still new to Tumblr town: please show Radiolab some love this week.
Oh and The Lisa Simpson Book Club too.
lisasimpsonbookclub:
I wonder how...
