March 25th, 2010 / 5:50 pm
Snippets

Obama drops into Prairie Lights to browse. I’d like to see a picture of Obama and Paul Ingram hanging out.

25 Comments

  1. Alec Niedenthal

      This is ridiculous. I feel like Robert Gibbs should be a hunchback with a limp who follows Obama around everywhere while Obama feeds him dog treats out of his (Obama’s) hand.

  2. Alec Niedenthal

      This is ridiculous. I feel like Robert Gibbs should be a hunchback with a limp who follows Obama around everywhere while Obama feeds him dog treats out of his (Obama’s) hand.

  3. JonCone

      I was in Prairie Lights this morning, but I missed President Obama’s visit. I was in the poetry section looking for Ben Mirov’s GHOST MACHINE, which I didn’t find, and books by Joshua Marie Wilkinson, which I found, at least two though the titles escape me. Then I looked at a copy of Walt Whitman’s LEAVES OF GRASS, thinking as I did so “I really need to sit down with this one day and read the entire book cover to cover.” I then looked at books by Liz Waldner and some other poets whose names I forget.

      No one goes near the poetry except me and the occasional Writer’s Workshop grad student. If President Obama had asked me what he should read, I would have recommended Joshua Clover’s The Totality For Kids (University of California) or maybe that Walt Whitman thingy.

  4. Donald

      What a detailed account of stuff you looked at in a bookshop.

  5. Donald

      What a detailed account of stuff you looked at in a bookshop.

  6. Blake Butler

      seemed more interesting than obama’s trip

  7. Blake Butler

      seemed more interesting than obama’s trip

  8. ryan

      leaves of grass is life-saving

  9. ryan

      leaves of grass is life-saving

  10. anon

      ibid ryan.

      i was ‘depressed’ until i read it, but i didn’t even realize i had been ‘depressed’ until it was finished.

      hope that makes sense.

  11. anon

      ibid ryan.

      i was ‘depressed’ until i read it, but i didn’t even realize i had been ‘depressed’ until it was finished.

      hope that makes sense.

  12. Jhon Baker

      Did he buy anything? or just browse and treat it like a library?

  13. Jhon Baker

      Did he buy anything? or just browse and treat it like a library?

  14. Trey

      two books for his daughters and one for his press guy’s son.

  15. Trey

      two books for his daughters and one for his press guy’s son.

  16. ael

      Love that shop. He was probably looking for Tyrant 7.

  17. ael

      Love that shop. He was probably looking for Tyrant 7.

  18. Jhon Baker

      Dammit, I tried for hilarity but ended up with a bit more respect.

  19. Jhon Baker

      Dammit, I tried for hilarity but ended up with a bit more respect.

  20. Adam Robinson

      Reminds me of that time President Bartlett went to that antiquarian bookstore in DC.

  21. Adam Robinson

      Reminds me of that time President Bartlett went to that antiquarian bookstore in DC.

  22. mike young

      we have the same brain

  23. mike young

      we have the same brain

  24. Willy

      Actually, he was there for the Nick Antosca reading for FIRES, but showed up about two years late.

      God, how I miss that store.

  25. Willy

      Actually, he was there for the Nick Antosca reading for FIRES, but showed up about two years late.

      God, how I miss that store.