June 8th, 2009 / 5:29 pm
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List of Literary Events Not To Be Missed This Week In Atlanta

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1. Walk through the magazine racks at Borders, that one section of one kiosk that sometimes has random cool magazines but mostly not, not anymore
2. Look through the window of that bookstore in Decatur that just went out of business and breathe on the glass and pretend like that’s you in there looking at the books that you didn’t buy because you went home instead and bought them on Amazon for less money
3. Read a book and pretend in your head that that author is reading it to you, in the way you think their voice is, without the witty asides or the host between people (you can add the host if you want)
4. Secretly cherish that there aren’t that many lit events here so you don’t have to feel obligated to attend them when it’s, like, your friend and stuff
5. Look at the internet some more

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21 Comments

  1. Red

      Now’s probably a bad time to tell you that I biked to four independent bookstores in Brooklyn / Manhattan today, looking for a copy of The Anxiety of Influence — and finally found an excellent, unmarked copy… for $3.

      You should seriously consider moving from Atlanta.

  2. Red

      Now’s probably a bad time to tell you that I biked to four independent bookstores in Brooklyn / Manhattan today, looking for a copy of The Anxiety of Influence — and finally found an excellent, unmarked copy… for $3.

      You should seriously consider moving from Atlanta.

  3. Blake Butler

      to be true, i really don’t think i ever could. i am not ‘new york people’
      still waiting on those teleporter things tho, for the fun

      maybe one day for like a year or something. hmm.

  4. Blake Butler

      to be true, i really don’t think i ever could. i am not ‘new york people’
      still waiting on those teleporter things tho, for the fun

      maybe one day for like a year or something. hmm.

  5. Gene Morgan

      I like living in an unspecial place. I feel like I’m fighting a war.

  6. Gene Morgan

      I like living in an unspecial place. I feel like I’m fighting a war.

  7. Red

      I think that’s fair. I grew up in a town with a population of 7,000. I understand the feeling.

  8. Red

      I think that’s fair. I grew up in a town with a population of 7,000. I understand the feeling.

  9. Blake Butler

      on the other hand, i extremely jealous of 4 indie stores in one day

      our town’s version of ‘indie stores’ are where they have actually used copies of vonnegut instead of just sci fi and romance, next to the used cds

  10. Blake Butler

      on the other hand, i extremely jealous of 4 indie stores in one day

      our town’s version of ‘indie stores’ are where they have actually used copies of vonnegut instead of just sci fi and romance, next to the used cds

  11. Janey Smith

      Isn’t Atlanta, like, its own country? San Francisco is an island, just so you know.

  12. Janey Smith

      Isn’t Atlanta, like, its own country? San Francisco is an island, just so you know.

  13. alfred jarry

      i would join a yahoo group called ‘blake butler should move to san francisco for a year instead of new york because new york is totally overrated we think’

  14. alfred jarry

      i would join a yahoo group called ‘blake butler should move to san francisco for a year instead of new york because new york is totally overrated we think’

  15. Blake Butler

      haha

  16. Blake Butler

      haha

  17. pr

      I’ve lived in NY since the fall of 1990. The first ten years were fun. Now? Good God. I’ve had enough. Wednesday, I depart to spend my summer in the outskirts of Binghamton, NY….aaahhhh….I’ve been doing this since 2002 or so. Fucking Heaven. Isolation is fantastic.

  18. KevinS

      This post made me cry a little. Blake–move to Portland. It’s casual AND literary.

  19. KevinS

      This post made me cry a little. Blake–move to Portland. It’s casual AND literary.

  20. Vaughan Simons

      It’s been raining in London. Just so you know.

  21. Vaughan Simons

      It’s been raining in London. Just so you know.