Happy 63rd Birthday Haruki Murakami! Here at The Exchange, you are master.
nybooks:

Cathleen Schine, Imaginary Friends
Michael Chabon’s Telegraph Avenue, the story of the ordinary lives of two imperfect, rather ordinary families, is as much a fantasy as The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay or even The Yiddish Policemen’s Union. It might, oddly, be his most original book as well.
Photo: Michael Chabon, Berkeley, California, circa 2003 (Michael Murphree/Corbis Outline)
WANT.
evolutionstopshere:

Thank you for the stories, Ray Bradbury.
8th Jun 201207:443,906 notes
thedailywhat:

RIP: Ray Bradbury, at 91: Ray Bradbury, literary genius and acclaimed author of Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, and Something Wicked This Way Comes, died this morning in Los Angeles. He was 91.
His grandson, Danny Karapetian, shared the news:

If I had to make any statement, it would be how much I love and miss him, and I look forward to hearing everyone’s memories about him. He influenced so many artists, writers, teachers, scientists, and it’s always really touching and comforting to hear their stories. Your stories. His legacy lives on in his monumental body of books, film, television and theater, but more importantly, in the minds and hearts of anyone who read him, because to read him was to know him. He was the biggest kid I know.

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We will always have Paris.
6th Jun 201222:343,696 notes

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~   Alain de Botton
neil-gaiman:

Thirty five years ago a Nottingham magistrate “reluctantly” ruled that the word Bollocks was neither obscene nor indecent. Which is good to know on the sort of a rumpled Monday morning when you feel like wearing a T-shirt with “Bollocks” on it.
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neil-gaiman:

Wishing Douglas Adams a happy 60th birthday. 

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