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May 29
Housing Works Open Air Street Fair, Saturday June 6

Housing Works Open Air Street Fair

Saturday, June 6

  • Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
  • 126 Crosby Street, New York, NY 10012 :: 212-334-3324

The Fifth Annual Housing Works Open Air Street Fair! Cobblestoned Crosby Street between Prince and Houston in SoHo is closed to cars and thousands of donated books, records and CDs will be sold for $1 a piece. Plus clothing, shoes and accessories from Housing Works Thrift Shops, Sixpoint Craft Ale from Puck Fair and ice cream from Van Leeuwen !

BOOKS, MOVIES, MUSIC: thousands of books, records, CDs and more. Every genre: modern fiction and classics; art books, cookbooks, children’s books and more, plus rare and vintage books—including a silent auction for an 1869 copy of Victor Hugo’s The Man Who Laughs and a signed copy of Paulo Coelho’s Be Like The River Flow.

CLOTHING AND ACCESSORIES: The Street Fair features exclusive merchandise from Housing Works Thrift Shops, offered on an “all-you-can-stuff” $20 a bag basis, including shoes and accessories. Designer clothes included! Housing Works partner Satya Jewelry will be selling the exclusive “Tree of Life” Housing Works necklace.

One block can make a big difference: All profits go to Housing Works, which provides lifesaving services for homeless and low-income New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS.
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May 27

Demonstration of the non-destructive book ripping/scanning device described at bkrpr.org

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May 15
“ I saw Allen Ginsberg talk about how he masturbated with cucumbers or something, and by comparison she was mild.

On Sapphire’s reading in 1995

Alison Rose, The Talk of the Town: Polished Sapphire: The New Yorker, December 25, 1995, p. 48
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Lee Daniels’s Precious, Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire

Set in Harlem in 1987, it is the story of Claireece “Precious” Jones (Gabourey Sidibe), a sixteen-year-old African-American girl born into a life no one would want. She’s pregnant for the second time by her absent father; at home, she must wait hand and foot on her mother (Mo’Nique), a poisonously angry woman who abuses her emotionally and physically. School is a place of chaos, and Precious has reached the ninth grade with good marks and an awful secret: she can neither read nor write. (via Precious Trailer - Trailer Addict)

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Ursula K. Le Guin's work still resonates with readers - Los Angeles Times

The seminal science fiction writer just won another Nebula award, and her themes about the environment, politics and feminism are still fresh.
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Meet India’s Pulp Fiction Master Surender Mohan Pathak, India’s leading pulp fiction novelist, has written more than 300 books and sold more than 25 million copies. His latest novel, “The Rs 65 Lakh Heist,” has just been printed in English. (Mark Scheffler/GlobalPost)

Meet India’s Pulp Fiction Master

Surender Mohan Pathak, India’s leading pulp fiction novelist, has written more than 300 books and sold more than 25 million copies. His latest novel, “The Rs 65 Lakh Heist,” has just been printed in English. (Mark Scheffler/GlobalPost)

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From A Drifting Life by Yoshihiro Tatsumi, translated from the Japanese by Taro Nettleton Yoshihiro Tatsumi remembers his first meeting with his idol Osamu Tezuka Via Words Without Borders

From A Drifting Life by Yoshihiro Tatsumi, translated from the Japanese by Taro Nettleton

Yoshihiro Tatsumi remembers his first meeting with his idol Osamu Tezuka

Via Words Without Borders

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On lime green campgrounds
Car crashes into a moose
I’m pitching a tent.

::+::+::+:> MATERIALS <:+::+::+::

T-shirt is 100% cotton and recycled.
Applique is made from scraps left over from making drag costumes.
All recycled materials have been cleaned.

::+::+::+:> SIZE <:+::+::+::

Adult all genders small
Chest: 35”
Shoulders: 18”
Length: 26”

::+::+::+:> MODEL <:+::+::+::

Yekatarina Zeloymod…
Please call her “Katya”
Thank You

(by Becca D’Bus, at OnYourSleeve Etsy Store)

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May 14
Catcher in the Rye sequel published, but not by Salinger

The last we saw of Holden Caulfield, he was in a mental hospital in California, reminiscing about the days he spent roaming New York City, watching his sister Phoebe ride a carousel. Now JD Salinger’s much-loved teenage misanthrope is back, thanks to an unauthorised sequel to The Catcher in the Rye, which sees a 76-year-old “Mr C” flee a nursing home to journey again through the streets of New York. (via Guardian)
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May 6

He’s behind you, he’s got swine flu - by The Streets

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