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My hometown Borders got closed
They were selling everything, including the bookshelves. (This is how any number of blog posts begin.) There were people in large hooded sweatshirts on corners waving signs that said “80-90% off,” and, in the store’s windows, there were giant yellow banners saying the same thing. I went on the third to last day. Large sections of the store were roped off, like the cafe area and the music section (though that section had been irrelevant since 2005 anyways). People wandered around aimlessly, looking totally lost, which was really the only way to inhabit the store since the selection had been so thoroughly decimated it was impossible to look for anything specific.
Bookshelf Special
80% off is no joke
I went through the fiction section, the large print section, the Spanish translation section, the African American special interest section, and the poetry section, which were contiguous along one wall of the store, grabbing any and all things that seemed good. These are the results (not in any order):
The cover/design of this book seems 100% retarded. (The cover image is blurry, not my camera, and yeah the final “A” in “O’HARA” is obnoxiously close to the cover’s right edge.) I just read a couple poems from this book and was reminded of how I’m not even sure if I like or dislike Frank O’Hara, however it seems like I’m required to like him in order to transcend, so whatever he’s cool.
I confuse these guys in my mind a lot, but if I sit down and think very hard I know Dennis Cooper is the cool one.
Christmas presents for friend and sister. They’ll still probably see the movie first.
I already own this but I haven’t read it but I’m pretty confident I will like it. I think this’ll be a Christmas present to my friend’s dad.
This book has been recommended to me a bunch, though always by non-literary people, yet people whose opinions I generally trust. Does this book hold any weight with the HTMLGIANT crowd?
I feel like Edna St. Vincent Millay is the quintessential flapper.
Joe Meno was the first “approachable” writer I knew about and yet I’ve only read a story collection. Going to try hard to read one of these this summer.
I met Ben Greenman very briefly at Blake’s marathon reading. I overheard him tell a story about being on a panel during which a literary agent said he/she advises his/her authors to title their books beginning with the letter “A” so they appear in Kindles before other books. I’ve retold this story several times always omitting the fact that this is something I overheard and not an actual conversation I had.
This one’s good, right?
Although I’m sure I’d like this book, I have a feeling I will never read it.
They were also selling these totally rad Moby Dick t-shirts. I bought 4, which was all they had left in sizes M and L.
This is what it looks like when I wear 3 Moby Dick t-shirts at the same time. (not sure where the 4th one went)
Tags: Fucking Borders
haha, awesome. i only made it to the borders closing in my town (that i used to work at) when shit was like 20% off, seems lame. my ex-coworkers neglected to actually tell me when shit got down that low and i missed it, oh well.
oh yeah, i meant to post a picture of my receipt but i guess i can just say it: “You Saved $217.98”
see you saturday bro
some definite scores there – cooper and johnson both good, of course the o’connor, that ben greenman i meant to pick up, the meno’s score for sure – are they closed now or still selling at 80%? hell, i’d send you over there with a wad of cash if i had a quick wish list on me – wait, are you in Chicago? which Borders is this?
some definite scores there – cooper and johnson both good, of course the o’connor, that ben greenman i meant to pick up, the meno’s score for sure – are they closed now or still selling at 80%? hell, i’d send you over there with a wad of cash if i had a quick wish list on me – wait, are you in Chicago? which Borders is this?
some definite scores there – cooper and johnson both good, of course the o’connor, that ben greenman i meant to pick up, the meno’s score for sure – are they closed now or still selling at 80%? hell, i’d send you over there with a wad of cash if i had a quick wish list on me – wait, are you in Chicago? which Borders is this?
Denis Johnson is the cool one too . . .and wish I’d been there. It’s like looting, legally, somehow . . .
Denis Johnson is the cool one too . . .and wish I’d been there. It’s like looting, legally, somehow . . .
Denis Johnson is the cool one too . . .and wish I’d been there. It’s like looting, legally, somehow . . .
Holy fuck you just scored!
A Fan’s Notes holds weight. It holds water. It holds up.
I haven’t read A Fan’s Notes, but Brock Clarke came to my college as part of the book tour for his novel Exley, and by the end of the day, both books seemed very interesting to me and I decided that I’d like to check them out someday.
yeah i’m in wilmette
great post. some good deals, too.
that thing about the kindle is funny in how it indicates marketing think in a publisher, but if anyone was wondering, it’s not exactly true. if you sort by “collections” (which is the only practical way I know to use the Kindle–that way you can put stuff in “fiction”/”non-fiction” or “biographies” or “reading now”/”about to read” or whatever folders you want), then on your home screen, it has the collections at the top, and then below that any uncollected books are displayed in the order that you most recently opened them, so the stuff you’re reading lately is always on top. plus there’s “sort by author” which to me is way more helpful than the title sort. and you can always just search, too.
sweet. see you on saturday man
fan’s notes is ok. i got about 2/3s of the way thru it before putting it down, way like ok we get it yr life had setbacks and stuff enough. also the hemingway trumped up masculine prose became a bit much, a self-loathing, self-defeating mailor or something.
nice score with the o’connor/cooper/lorrie moore triumvirate.
The Borders here closed down at the beginning of the year. My mom was visiting at the time and she bought CliffNotes for the Bible.
WTF
WTF
I didn’t know you were from around these parts-ish.
No Taylor Lautner poster? You missed out.
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dayum that’s an awesome borders u, um, had there. i will totes buy one of those moby dick tshirts if yr selling.
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Edna St. Vincent Millay is the quintessential flapper. Read Trout Fishing in America, Richard Brautigan shouldn’t be missed. Why was Borders closing? By me all that Borders ever does is put small wonderful bookstores out of business or close to it.
those shirts *are* rad.
“self-loathing, self-defeating mail[e]r” is accurate, only less skilled with words than abnorman
the irrational, violent god and the unsustainably generous god without the poetry – MARKET ME
Exley. yeah. tragic and great and yup.
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yes those Moby Dick shirts are good. Any patriotic American father should be pleased to receive Trout Fishing In America as a present.
What’s 80% (now) of $163 (price)?
Unresolved ending.
When the percentages are in multiples of 10, go to the ‘10%’ gimmick: cut the first digit to the left of the decimal point. So, 10% of 163 is a little more than 16. 20% of $163 is twice that 10%: rounding up, about 33 bucks. You save – or, pathetically, would have saved – , at “80% OFF”: $130.
One of these things does not belong…
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I just noticed that the sign informs us that the “CASHIER WILL DEDUCT EXACT PERCENTAGE AT THE REGISTER.”
I also noticed that Andrew James Weatherhead left the toilet seat in the upright position.
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ive read this 82 times
lucky
damn
lemme holler at a moby dick shirt for realzies
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Does your home town happen to be Wilmette IL??
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Light Boxes by Shane Jones is one of my favorite reads of last summer. If and when Spike Jones actually progresses on the movie, I imagine it will be a disappointment. Read the book.
Light Boxes by Shane Jones is one of my favorite reads of last summer. If and when Spike Jones actually progresses on the movie, I imagine it will be a disappointment. Read the book.
Erm, no.
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