Write them a beautiful line, like John Rybicki. (Hey, it won’t cost you anything!)
(Type treatment by Lookout intern Eric Tran)
the blog of Ecotone magazine and Lookout Books
the blog of Ecotone magazine and Lookout Books
Write them a beautiful line, like John Rybicki. (Hey, it won’t cost you anything!)
(Type treatment by Lookout intern Eric Tran)
In the second part of our literary Valentine’s Day series, we’re suggesting taking your loved ones out on a literary date. The North Castle Public Library’s Olde Firehouse book club is meeting tonight in Upstate New York to talk about “the dilemmas of Jewish love stories.”
But in case you can’t get there by tonight, find a local reading. You can find a calendar at Poets & Writers, your library, community centers, colleges, and city listings.
We at Lookout Books get it. We’re writers, readers, students, and teachers in addition to being boyfriends, girlfriends, spouses, lovers, ‘just friends.’ Finding time for finding Valentine’s Day gifts is hard. So we’re here to help with a multi-part guide to literary gifts of love.
First up, introducing ‘Writs of Passion,’ a collection of stories by Lookout author Steve Almond. The stories unabashedly feature sex (Why I Write Smut: A Manifesto) and, for a limited time, are available in a six-book series. The covers line up to form a larger risque image, below.
In their recommendation of the series, About.com says, “I can’t think of anyone who writes about mostly heterosexual people having sex better than he does. It’s funny, weird, unexpected, with just enough four letter words ending in hard consonants to create tingly feelings from the inside out.”
To order Writs of Passion, follow instructions here.
(And while you’re at it, check out Almond’s book of short stories, God Bless America.)
image courtesy The Rumpus
from When All the World is Old, by John Rybicki
published by Lookout Books
—Anna Sutton, Lookout Intern