Today, I went to Elliott Bay Books (my fave. If a company could be my BFF, it would be) and got:
I've been sleeping like shit for the past week and I walk into Elliott Bay and sitting on this "celebrating small press!" table is a completely eclectic collection of insomnia themed everything that manages to throw Margaret Atwood in with Davy Rothbart (Found Magazine editor/This American Life contributor). YES PLEASE.
A series of character-study short stories/comix featuring the likes of:
- Daniel Clowes, author of the series 8-ball and, subsequently from that, Ghost World and Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron. Along with Adrian Tomine, he's one of my favorite graphic novelists/cartoonists ever.
- Dave Eggers. You know.
- Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, which is one of my two favorite books of last year. When you can manage to make a book about a kid whose dad died on 9/11 and make it (a) not trite and (b) adorably quirky and touching, you are amazing.
- Nick Hornby. High Fidelity. The Believer. Yes yes yes.
- Miranda July, who is amazing. If you don't know her from all the billion things she's done from writing to performance art to installation pieces at Bumbershoot, you know her as the auteur of Me and You and Everyone We Know.
- & more!
Also, I got my brother In Me Own Words: The Autobiography of Bigfoot for his birthday, featuring this spread, "Feelings":
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The bike poem is my favorite thing that I've read in a while.
I've seen The Book of Other People around Village Books before and it always got my attention but not enough to pick up. I might have to give that one another go.
That Bigfoot book is amazing.
I want that Bigfoot book. It looks AMAZING! Elliot Bay really does rock my socks off. I love Powells more, but Elliot Bay is totally my big huge affair.