Tag Archive: books

[Erin Bradley] Sex & Dating Advice Guru via Nerve.com

If you’re curious about what to do when you accidentally sleep with your boyfriend’s brother (for shame!) or you want to initiate casual sex but can’t quite figure out the best, er…etiquette, then you want to reach out to Erin Bradley. As “Miss Information,” Nerve.com’s sex and dating advice guru, Erin has answered questions from [...]

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[Anna Jane Grossman] Author of “Obsolete: An Encyclopedia of Once-Common Things Passing Us By.”

Anna Jane Grossman is a New York-based freelance writer and author of the recently released book: Obsolete: An Encyclopedia of Once-Common Things Passing Us By (Abrams Image, September 2009). In Obsolete, Anna Jane lists and discusses a number of ideas, behaviors, and objects that have already faded into obsolescence or are steadily on their way [...]

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the art of the book(store)

For the sake of a more cohesive and thorough cultural experience, this week, I am branching out from the more traditional visit to museum or gallery. Instead I travel into another artistic and cultural medium: the book, and its home, the bookstore. I am going to validate this choice of topic in two ways: ONE, books are works of art, in a medium that is usually accessible to the masses; TWO (more importantly) if you can’t afford a trip to visit the Greek ruins, well, maybe you can afford a tour guide of Greece and a copy of some Greek poetry. Yes? It’s travel for the stuck-in-the-city urbanite.

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