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David Sedaris: “I’d rather go to an actual shop. I want beauty in my life. I want charm.”

  • by parnassusmusing
  • Posted on June 12, 2014

“I want contact with actual people. It is, for me, a large part of what makes life worth living.”

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Like Father, Like Son: Willie and Bill Geist Crack Us Up

  • by parnassusmusing
  • Posted on June 11, 2014

The witty memoir co-written by Bill and Willie Geist may be an obvious choice for a Fathers…

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Elizabeth McCracken on Humor, Loss, and the Appeal of Broken Characters: “Life Is Full of Bad Jokes”

  • by parnassusmusing
  • Posted on May 20, 2014

Like a solar eclipse, the stories in Thunderstruck align darkness and light so precisely that they overlap to create something magical — you can see the edges of hope around each character’s despair.

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Michael Pollan on Eating While Traveling, the Gluten-Free Craze, and More

  • by parnassusmusing
  • Posted on May 12, 2014

We’re thrilled to welcome bestselling author and leading food-thinker Michael Pollan (“food-thinker” is a term…

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Emma Straub’s Fantasy Literary Vacation

  • by parnassusmusing
  • Posted on May 8, 2014

Emma Straub, author of The Vacationers, takes us on an imagined vacation with some fellow authors from across time. The Mitford sisters get the best bedroom; but Elizabeth Gilbert’s in charge of the map, and Colson Whitehead’s doing the cooking, so it’s all good.

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