Farrar, Straus and Giroux

If you don’t feel better after seeing these photos, something’s wrong with you. I think WORD’s onto something here…

pantheonbooks:

wordbrooklyn:

Nathan Englander and Geoff Dyer stopped by the store to sign books and eat donuts. Naturally.

Which means that if you need a signed What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank or Zona (or or or), we’ve got ‘em!

Oh, man, were we supposed to be giving our authors donuts when they sign books for us here in our office? Is that a thing? Is there some kind of book-to-donut ratio we should follow? You know, something like 1 donut per 50 books, and after 500 books we switch to straight up booze.

Truman Capote’s Brooklyn home sells for $12M, setting a real estate record in its Brooklyn neighborhood.

It features eleven fireplaces. Eleven.

“I was born in Brooklyn, but I never lived there. All my life, however, I’ve been regaled with stories of the glory that was pre-war Brooklyn, and since these tales seemed to have very little to do with my own experience of the place, the Brooklyn of that era has always appeared to me as something of an enchanted isle—a fiction, really. Setting a story there—not in the literal, geographical Brooklyn but in the one of memory, of romanticized recollection—is my way of visiting a place that I suspect never really existed.”

Alice McDermott, interviewed in The New Yorker about her short story “Someone.”