My dear friend Heike (pronounced Hike-ah) offers her first ever video review – The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien. Love the hat, Heike! Of course, Flann O’Brien is actually Brian O’Nolan and this book was not published until after the author’s death.
We don’t just sell books. AbeBooks offers thousands of old newspapers and magazines recording everything from the Normandy Landings to the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the Apollo 11 mission.
This selection of historic papers, periodicals, journals and magazines has a strong literary slant with contributions from Hemingway, Kerouac, Salinger, Faulkner and Wodehouse.
Well. According to one of our booksellers, you can now buy a book bound in human skin if you have a spare nine grand and a penchant for macabre things.
Not sure what else I can say about this, besides….GAAAAAAHHHH!!! *shudder shudder willies heebie-jeebies*
And remember, human skin is not the only unusual bookbinding out there.
One of the greatest classic cocktail books
Many, many, authors have had the repuation of being a complete lush. Kingsley Amis nearly made a career out of the persuit of drinking and Bukouski made a career out of what happens after you’ve been drinking. This Flavorwire feature has some great quotes like Dorothy Parker:
I wish I could drink like a lady
I can take one or two at the most
Three and I’m under the table
Four and I’m under the host.
Also check out our feature on Books About Drink
They’re back! Three more literary charades – we act out the book and you guess the title. Please don’t post the answers as comments. These are just for fun.
