Hopefully this won’t be last post for the week

If you’re interested in becoming part of a book review blogging tour for Hispanic-focused books let me know!

– Get your Spanish on with McNally Jackson Books!
Every Saturday at 12pm
Spanish Language Discussion Group
Practice your Spanish with Javier Molea, our resident Spanish language literature expert. Javier owned a bookstore in Montevideo, Uruguay, where people gathered on Saturdays to discuss books. He has brought that tradition to our store. No preparatory reading is required; Borges, Cortazar, Fuentes, and all of the greatest Latin American writers are discussed. about the Spanish Lanugage Discussion Group.
McNally Jackson Books is located at 52 Prince Street between Lafayette and Mulberry.

– Get your lit Tweets here:
Centerstreet
Faithwords
Forever Romance
Grand Central Publishing
Little Brown
Orbit Books
University of Minnesota Press
Penguin Books
The New York Times Arts
The New York Times Books
The Wall Street Journal
Publishing Talk
Yale Press
Harper’s
The New Yorker
Norton Fiction

– There was recently a Frida Kahlo look-alikes Contest held: “Images of the Frida-wannabes are posted online, and they’re beautiful.” Via Jezebel.com

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