If you are looking for a list of great indie bookstores in the U.S… go here: www.newpages.com/bookstores

jeffswystun:

Waterstones advertisements’ clever use of copy to extol the virtues of bookstores.

motherjones:

Chinese cyberwarfare against the United States: Just how screwed are we?

thenationmagazine:

Our new double issue is out today, with exposés on Pete Peterson and his B.S. “Fix the Debt” campaign & much more.

laughingsquid:

Asdfmovie6, A Quick & Clever Cartoon Full of Cats, Dogs & Explosions

Info listings and ads for the NewPages combined exhibit at AWP Bookfair in Boston 2013. http://www.newpages.com/awplitpak/

NewPages is shocked — shocked we tell ya — that people go to the AWP and drink! Who knew?

penamerican:

Deborah Garfinkle is the recipient of a 2012 PEN Translation Fund fellowship for her translation of Pavel Srut’s Worm-Eaten Time. Read her introduction to Srut’s work here.

[The cold stump you sit on]

The cold stump you sit on
In the pond mud,
While we’re still dusted
With morning’s ashes….

showslow:

Private Moon Project

Russian artists Leonid Tishkov and Boris Bendikov created a fantastic world illuminated with the moonlight where they tried to convey relations between the man and the Moon. This is a romantic story about a man who met the Moon and decided to stay with it forever. They named the installation ‘Private Moon’.

nevver:

You’re soaking in it

laughingsquid:

99 Steps of Progress, Illustrated ‘March of Progress’ Parody Series