Black Spring Books

independent bookshop & literary social club paying homage to Henry Miller & @brazenheadbooks

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We just launched our Patreon! If you can, please consider supporting our thriving literary community by becoming a member and reaping some sweet bookish rewards 📚https://t.co/k37zwYlwcz

[Richard Siken @richardsiken]

Tell me how all this, and posting too, will ruin us.

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follow your dreams people ❤️‍🔥https://t.co/fdB1UZoySs

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

“If you can fall in love again and again… if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical… you’ve got it half licked.”

Henry Miller, who died on this day in 1980, on the measure of a life well lived https://t.co/Mm7yb4asY5

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nothing like the carried history of a used book 🖤

[The Paris Review @parisreview]

“Sometimes a book taken from someone’s house still carries the scent of their house, of what it was like to be in a room with them, and when you first open the book, you’re with them again for a moment.”

From “The Letter” by Caleb Crain in our new issue.
https://t.co/5jjQHwmxdQ

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"Right now, in this culture where we are so unbelievably uptight, there is something about Eve Babitz that is extremely attractive. There is a freedom; there is something uninhibited. She said and did what she wanted."—Bret Easton Ellis

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Eve Babitz, the Colette of LA

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"Yes, I deserve a spring—I owe nobody nothing." —Virginia Woolf

[Julie Carr @CarrCarrjuli]

Books have arrived! First event, in NYC on Friday Arpil 21 at Black Spring Books, with Monica de la Torre! https://t.co/JhBmOnA19J

[Kyle Brosnihan @young_bandido]

Put in your calendars folks. 4:20, 7pm, Black Spring Books: TISOY Book Release Reading.

Lineup includes @marlborogrrl @aporiaenjoyer Kelsea Brunner and Melina Casados.

Gonna be a very poetic evening. Hope to see y’all there!

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Colette reading to Audrey Hepburn

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Colette with a cat

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Mayakovsky with cat

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

“Life, in ‘Ulysses,’ is the experience of the body, from tip to toe, as it wanders through the world,” @mervatim writes. “It is sensation mediated by language, and language refined by sensation.” https://t.co/pzyfpxzjHB

[Alex Brook Lynn @AlexBrookLynn]

I like everything about @simonablat ‘s @blackspringbk

The kind of cozy bookstore that one reads about in printed pages about old New York.

Today I picked up Scoop - Evelyn Waugh, And as I was leaving they were setting up the screen to watch Korean new wave classic Thirst.

[The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings) @brainpickings]

“To have a friend who understands and appreciates your work, one who never lets you down but who becomes more devoted, more reverent, as the years go by, that is a rare experience.”

Henry Miller on the relationship between creativity and community https://t.co/yQwdaGlKIU

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Philip Larkin with wicker rabbit

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“The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.”—Wallace Stevens