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Three Good Things: Media Phenoms 23 Aug 2013 | 03:25 am
1) Oh, this is all sorts of fabulous: "In 1969 Norman Mailer ran for mayor of New York. He called for the city’s secession from the State of New York to become the 51st state; a ban on private cars...
RIP, Elmore Leonard 22 Aug 2013 | 04:20 am
Like a good many of you, we at Diesel were supremely saddened to hear the news of Elmore Leonard's death this week. Leonard is a quintessential American treasure whose work will, we are certain, conti...
Diesel Presents - Jorge Luis Borges 20 Aug 2013 | 11:34 pm
August 24th, 1899 - June 14th, 1986 “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library,” said poet, short story author, and translator Jorge Luis Borges, who’d been writing from the age ...
"Something for the Touts, the Nuns, the Grocery Clerks & You" 17 Aug 2013 | 01:47 am
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Yeah, I know Charles Bukowski could be... well, some say, distasteful, and others say, creepy. Funny enough, I don't think he would've dispute ei...
Some Thoughts on Translated Literature 8 Aug 2013 | 03:30 am
"As a writer I can be bad, but I can't be wrong. A translator can be good, but can never be right. Translators are jugglers, diplomats, nuance-ticklers, magistrates, word-nerds, self-testing lie detec...
"I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave" 8 Aug 2013 | 02:34 am
As if you needed another reason to support California Bookstore Day, huh?
Three Good Things: Tuesday Link Trifecta 8 Aug 2013 | 02:10 am
1) With her most recent novel, The Flamethrowers, Rachel Kushner showed herself to be one of the sharpest-tongued writers of her generation. With this insightful essay on the work of Clarice Lispector...
An Open Letter to President Obama 1 Aug 2013 | 03:05 am
Earlier this week the American Book Association and Hut Landon, Executive Director of the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association, wrote President Obama stirring open letters we though...
Saturday Evening Video: 28 Jul 2013 | 07:28 am
You know you work at a bookstore when your first thought when watching something like this is "Ooo, I hope they didn't damage any of the books!"
California Bookstore Day! 25 Jul 2013 | 01:56 am
A wonderful thing happens when you walk into a Diesel bookstore: you cannot help but notice you're in a space that is not only filled with books, but that you're surrounded by people who love them. As...
