for Rob McLennan and here’s just one of them:

This question strikes me as obscene. What home are you referring to? Are you suggesting that my home has a ‘fragrance’? I love it.

Here’s the rest.

by Colie

We’re heading down to Brooklyn early tomorrow morning for an entire weekend of book-y delight:

On Saturday, you can find us at the 6th Annual BOOG CITY SMALL, SMALL PRESS FAIR, where Jennifer Kronovet, a contributor to our spring issue, will read from her work.

SIMULTANEOUSLY and ONLY 3 BLOCKS AWAY, we’ll be carousing in honor of A BEST OF FENCE: The First Nine Years, a massive two-volume anthology of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and essays from Fence’s editors, past and present. (At the Boog fair, you can buy a copy of the anthology at a steep discount and get directions to the party. It’s to be a Garden Party, but alas the rain doth fall.) Readers at the party will include Lynne Tillman, Matthew Rohrer, Stacy Doris, Peter Gizzi, Max Winter and Sarah Gambito.

On Sunday, when the sun will most certainly reappear, we’ll be sitting happily at the BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL, sharing a table with the wonderful Open City and selling books & subscriptions for nearly nothing.

Please come and see us at one or more of these fun places! We’ll be the ones with the smiles on.

Google, the world’s friendliest search engine, is in the process of negotiating a settlement that will determine how ditigized books are accessed and marketed, which books become digitized, and who stands to profit.

It’s a frightening mess, and The Open Book Alliance is in our court.

See SPD’s blog post of the OBA’s mission statement (incredibly concise and well-crafted) for information about the settlement and its massive flaws. Many thanks to Jeffrey Lependorf for getting the word out.