Iris Blasi

Marketing Manager at Open Road Integrated Media. I like books and the people who read them.

May 23

“You get a little moody sometimes but I think that’s because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.” Pat Conroy, in The Prince of Tides

May 21

“‘This isn’t the store where you’ll find the book you were looking for,’ Fowler says. ‘It’s the store where you’ll find the book you didn’t know you were looking for.’” An Oddly Modern Antiquarian Bookshop

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on trees…I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” The Great Gatsby

May 20

“Never forget the wonks, and the weirdos, and the people who will be delighted by this book that they never could even have imagined could exist and they will find on your shelf.”

The advice Sarah McNally’s mother gave her for opening a bookstore.

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May 17

“Memoir’s not an easy form. It’s not for beginners, which is unfortunate, as it is where many people do begin.Memoir’s not an easy form. It’s not for beginners, which is unfortunate, as it is where many people do begin.” Hilary Mantel, to The New York Times

“A curious book, a mystical, glamourous story of today. It takes a deeper cut at life than hitherto has been enjoyed by Mr. Fitzgerald. He writes well-he always has-for he writes naturally, and his sense of form is becoming perfected.” The original 1925 NYT review of The Great Gatsby.

May 16

I love you, bookternet.

(via laughterkey)

May 15

A really great Gatsby clutch.

May 13

Cheers.

popchartlab:

Don Draper’s Old Fashioned, The Dude’s White Russian, Hunter S. Thompson’s Singapore Sling, Daisy Buchanan’s Mint Julep, and more in our new Cocktail Chart of Film and Literature.

May 10

F. Scott Fitzgerald dressed in drag in 1916 for the Princeton Triangle Club, the country’s oldest touring collegiate musical comedy troupe.

(To this day, despite a co-ed cast, Triangle still features an all-male kickline, which is something simultaneously terrible and amazing to watch. Here’s the “Touched By An Angel” number from 2000.)

[picture via Open Culture]

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