BOOK SOUP

Gary Shteyngart, Super Sad True Love Story (2010)

The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood

Vintage editions of The Metamorphosis, Fahrenheit 451, and 1984

When the sun falls just right on a creepy book. #Aesthetics

National Poetry Month Day 7: an excerpt from “Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer” from OLD POSSUM’S BOOK OF PRACTICAL CATS by T.S. Eliot, illustrated by Edward Gorey. Happy Caturday!

Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey is widely considered to be cinema’s greatest achievement in the science fiction genre. Celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the film’s release, Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece by Michael Benson is the definitive story of the film’s creation, now available from Simon & Schuster.

Patricia Highsmith, c.1942

ASHES OF FIERY WEATHER by Kathleen Donohoe – A debut novel about the passionate loves and tragic losses of six generations of women in a family of firefighters, spanning from famine-era Ireland to Brooklyn a decade after 9/11.

About time.

Morgan Huff

Lea: “I just met Lolita. She seems innocent so far. I’ve only known her in relation to Humbert Humbert. I want to know her as a character outside of their relationship. The fact that an older man has possession over a much younger girl is scary. A lot of my friends are terrified of that kind of relationship. I’ve always wanted to read Lolita and finally picked it up. My parents don’t really want me to read it yet because there are themes in it that are hard to digest as a teenage girl. I believe in exposure. It’s really important for young people. It’s not good to have a limited view of the world. Exposure makes you aware of what it feels like to be in Lolita’s position. It will make you see it and understand it more.” @lj.elton #Lolita #VladimirNabokov / @theubc for #subwaybookreview #newyork 🗽 (at G Train)