#Main Street Books

[lgbtqreads]

Shopper's Delight: Independent Bookstore Day (Tomorrow!)

In honor of Independent Bookstore Day tomorrow (April 29th), here are some of our favorite indies along with some handy links to special, signed (including bookplated), and/or personalized editions that can ship right to you! (Stores are listed alphabetically by state.) Please note that some of these are preorders, and some are already published titles.  Note: Make sure you request the copy be…

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#Anderson&039;s Bookshop #Blue WIllow Bookshop #Books of Wonder #Buffalo Street Books #Charis Books and More #East City Bookshop #Grass Roots #Main Street Books #Mysterious Galaxy #Northshire Books #One More Page #Parnassus Books #Porter Square Books #Powell&039;s #RJ Julia #Schuler&039;s Books #Swamp Fox Bookstore #The Dog Eared Book #The Ripped Bodice #The Strand #Third Place Books #White Whale Bookstore

[cinader]

L&BH Radio is at North Carolina Writer's Conference Today

Our correspondent, Tony Robles is at the North Carolina Writer's Conference today, Saturday Nov.4, in Charlotte, NC. Please come to the audio garden at WLBH.org and join the conversation.

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#Back Bone Press #Brenda Wilson #Ed Southern #Hilary Green #Jamie Lisa Forbes #Main Street Books #NCPS #NCWNC #North Carolina Writers Network #Press 53 #WLBH Radio

[papermonkeyism]

Don't know that one. What's it about? What genre? Is it fun?

#I'm not gonna pay for international shipping for a book blindly again #Last time I bought a book based on someone praising how gay it was and how good it's representation was #It turned out the main couple had been a thing briefly in the past but wasn't in the book's present #And while it had many flashbacks to the past timeline it was less about seeing them be together and more like #Character A saying something and the story stopped happening so character B could explain the thing at character A #Like 'oh you're experiencing periods. This is what that means what causes it and how to treat the symptoms.' #And 'oh you're bisexual. This is the dictionary definition of the word this is the etymology of the word' #Like one of the characters was alledgedly street smart thief but for some reason she had never heard of periods before #I was told they had great chemistry but all I got shown was a person shaped dictionary and a blank wall that got things explained to #I was clearly not the target audience for that one (I know what bisexual means! Stop lecturing like I'm an idiot and let me see the story!) #Though at least that book treated animals like actual animals and knew how logistics worked #Unlike this OTHER book I once bought on internet recommendation #That had me continuously go 'that's not how falcons work. That's not how horses work. That's not how weather works. #'that's not how winter works. Have you ever even seen snow? For fuck's sake stop rubbing frostbites! You're gonna cause tissue damage!' #...... #Sorry did not mean to tag a wall of text #I've just spent too much money on books I bought on anonymous recommendation and ended up not having good time

[aroacehanzawa]

ok so. the place i'm staying in this summer is right above a bookstore (super aesthetic with reading corners/nooks decorated according to different themes and styles based on each section) that doubles as a cafe (they have iced coffees and one million kinds of teas and cakes and pastries. with table service to wherever you're sitting in the bookstore) the question is, is it weird if i go there every day

#they have a small english section with decent books too so i just treat it as a library #i literally just sat there for like 3 hours yesterday #but i have nothing to do today either because i live in a super residential area with one (1) main shopping street

[muirneach]

sam knowing a lot about a lot of different things because he has five million degrees, vs al knowing a lot because he has had every job conceivable and gets around is soo good cause it’s like. their combined knowledge is staggering and they don’t have to learn everything cause they always have each other. sam knows a lot of languages but he never learned italian because al will always be there to translate for him. like that’s crazy. that’s love i think

#the last line was my main point but i didnt know how to phrase it so. get the rest of the post too ig #theyre textbook street smart vs book smart btw #quantum leap #im going insane about ql again ive been watching a lot of it recently. show of all fucking time

[itstimeforstarwars]

Tell us all about the hollow sidewalks

Yes!!!

Putting it under a cut because it got long lol.

So here is the wikipedia article for Vaulted Sidewalks. It is very short, and basically boils down to "vaulted sidewalks are sidewalks that have a hollow area underneath."

Which is, yes, the definition. But they're very cool!

Basically, there's two things that tend to be under a hollow sidewalk, and those are vaults and tunnels. Vaults are little rooms that extend under the sidewalk that are simply connected to the building, whereas tunnels, obviously, go somewhere else. Both were very popular before cars became a big thing!

Most hollow sidewalks only go for a few streets or so if they're tunnels, but sometimes you can get a whole underground city! For example, after the Great Seattle Fire in Seattle, WA, USA, the city leaders decided to just raise the whole city about a story, but a lot of people continued to use the original streets and entrances in addition to the new entrances on the higher level. They only stopped using the underground cityscape because twenty years later, the city condemned the lower levels due to concerns about bubonic plague. I've heard that some of it is now available for guided tours.

A lot of hollow sidewalks were built before electricity, which means that they also have really cool Vault Lights. Some of them were just grates with glass in them to let in the light, but a lot of them had prisms to throw light into a wider array and fill the tunnel with light despite the small porthole. If you click through to the link, it's got a fascinating gallery at the bottom.

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Here's a vault light from Philadelphia! The bubbles in and around the star are small glass prisms that cast light in the hollow below.

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This is what a vault light looks like from below--this one only has five of the prisms still uncovered and functional, but that's still a lot of light!

Unfortunately, most of the hollow sidewalks in the US get dug up and filled with sand, because the weight of modern cars is simply too much for the hollow sidewalks to handle, and we prefer to bow to the whims of the automobile industry as they make bigger and heavier cars and trucks, so the cool underground sidewalks and cities have to go.

But!

That's not true in star wars. The GFFA has flying cars and hover technology for all of their heavy transportation needs, so I like to think that they have extremely walkable cities and many places have hollow sidewalks. The possibilities are infinite!

Mandalore? Hollow, reinforced sidewalks. The tunnels of Sundari double as bomb shelters due to the planet's violent past.

Hoth/Tatooine/Jakku/Ordo Plutonia? Underground tunnels are actually more popular than aboveground, due to the elements.

Corellia? Hollow sidewalks have a whole different city underneath. Corellia is barely respectable on the surface, but underground they drop even the veneer.

Coruscant? Trick question! The whole planet is about seventy thousand layers of hollow sidewalks. There's vault lights on Coruscant that haven't had daylight to give to the level below them in a thousand years, but prisms are still very popular in artificial lighting because electricity is expensive and you have to scatter that shit as far as it will go.

Considering that there are also a whole bunch of alien species who prefer to be underground, I think that pretty much any medium-sized town or larger would have a robust underground element. And when the weather sucks, wouldn't it be nice to have the option to go wherever you were going, but in a tunnel so you don't have to get wet/be hot/get blown away by the wind/etc? My university had underground tunnels that connected all the buildings, but students weren't allowed to use them, and every time I was walking the long mile between my first class and my second class in -10F (-23C) weather, the tunnels were literally all I could think about I was so mad lmao.

If you want to know more about hollow sidewalks/vault lights, I highly recommend clicking on all the links in the post, and also checking out the book The Tunnels Under Our Feet by Tracy Beach [B&N link]. The book is primarily about hollow sidewalks in Colorado, but it does also have a few chapters where it talks about hollow sidewalks all over the US, like the ones in Seattle.

Links in this post:

Vaulted Sidewalks [Wikipedia]

Pavement Lights [Wikipedia]

Philadelphia's Lost Vault Lights [Article]

The Tunnels Under Our Feet [B&N]

#asks #chaos-is-my-lifeblood #thanks for the ask! #i highly recommend researching hollow sidewalks they're cool #and the book is a great introduction to them #tune in next time when i rage about walkable cities and pedestrian-centric design lmao #it's MY star war and I get to plan the cities #paw notes #i can also bitch about cars and public transportation for days #tbh i'm surprised that people still talk to me because i DO bitch about cars and public transportation all the time #but i do think we should get rid of 90% of vehicles and bring back hollow sidewalks #this time with elevators so they are more accessible #i want to walk to the grocery store in safety and comfort when there's four feet of snow outside #lol #also could you imagine how pretty the vault lights would be on mandalore #like have you seen the stained glass in that one satine episode? They HAVE art! imagine doing vault lights like that! #prisms that when the light shines through make pictures #like maybe on one of the main streets they have vault lights that make illustrations of important moments in mandalorian history #galidraan au #will that ever come up in the story probably not but #listen. listen. #i am inventing art history for mandalore #i am giving them vault lights and beskar glass and shiny things #i am putting into star wars everything i wish i could put into public infrastructure of my area lmao

[s7-evermore]

More Trey, Riddle, and Chenya moments pls I love their friendship so much fjdjsjdje

#dude in book 5 when they met up at the Main Street #pls Riddle looked so pleased to see Chenya #i love those three #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland riddle #riddle rosehearts #twisted wonderland trey #trey clover #twisted wonderland Chenya #chenya

[rocksalt-and-pie]

I just looked at Lebanon Kansas on google streetview and lemme tell you. It does not look like on supernatural in the slightest

#im not even sure there's people living there? there are like three abandoned houses on main street alone? #someone take the fucking google maps away from me its a problem. i have a book to write. all i ever do is look at the stupid streetview #i have an addiction #spn #supernatural #lebanon kansas #mp

[thyme-in-a-bubble]

can’t wait till i wake up in the morning and watch my babies finally reunite ♡

#sorry to talk about critical role on my main #but i’ve just been waiting for this since march #i’m so happy i’m gonna cry #also my mom is finally on summer break so she’s coming over to watch the episode with me #like we used to do before life got in the way #she even sleeping over at my sibling’s apartment tonight just so that she only has to walk 2 streets before she’s here #just as soon as she wakes up #roll out of bed and stumble over here #land on my couch and open twitch #also i prepared some yummy yummy bread that we (i) can bake for breakfast #fresh bread for breakfast and critical role 🥰 #nothing better #that’s the best comfort in my book #lea speaks #critical role spoilers #critical role

[mieczyhale]

calling show!wesper “sexualized”, saying that's what happens to all popular gay ships, saying they’ve become “just the token gay ship” i-

what the fuck are you smoking and how do i avoid it forever

#a one night stand was mentioned.. we saw them giggling as wy pushed jes onto the bed.. and we saw them snuggled up in bed #yes getting ready to Do Stuff but nothing actually happens #why are you so against a gay couple getting equal love and attention to straight couples?? why are you so mad we learn they've had sex?? #listen i get some book fans weren't happy with the changes but to try and make such stupid fucking claims... #oh no!!!1 they're popular!! they're a main part of the show!! how horrible!!1 #they?? do sex?? bad!!! #we all know that takes away from da romance!!! #they're a normal boring ship now!!!11 #like... #get a fucking grip #please #i blocked the person bc their whole post was obnoxious but the part about my boys.. if i rolled my eyes any harder they'd roll right out #and down the fucking street #mygvposts #maison speaks

[uwmspeccoll]

Wood Engraving Wednesday

BARRY MOSER

This week we present a few small wood engravings by noted American illustrator, fine-press publisher, and wood engraver Barry Moser from his printing of American poet Louis Simpson’s poem The Invasion of Italy printed in Northampton, Massachusetts, at Main Street, Inc. in 1976 in an edition of 75 copies. It was designed and printed by Moser using Victor Hammer’s American Uncial type, an unusual choice for Moser, but it seems to fit the tenor of the poem. Apparently this is the one and only time Moser used this typeface. Moser signed each of the engravings and Simpson signed the entire edition.

It was Moser’s 1967 introduction to Leonard Baskin and his Gehenna Press that introduced Moser to the possibilities of fine letterpress printing and wood engraving. Soon after, Moser was studying printmaking with Jack Coughlin and Fred Becker, both accomplished wood engravers of their own, and one can especially see the influence of Coughlin and Baskin in these three engravings. In fact many of the artists and printers of what we call the Pioneer Valley School share this visual aesthetic. Moser had already founded his Pennyroyal Press by 1970, but here he is printing for Main Street, Inc., a press founded by Moser’s lawyer Alan Scheinman to print previously unpublished poems by major American poets.

The Invasion of Italy is a fairly short poem and Moser’s engravings illustrate it well, so we include the poem above as well. Once again, our copy is a donation from our friend and benefactor Jerry Buff.

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#Wood Engraving Wednesday #wood engravings #wood engravers #Barry Moser #Louis Simpson #The Invasion of Italy #Main Street Inc. #Victor Hammer #American Uncial #Pioneer Valley School #Alan Scheinman #fine press books #Jerry Buff

[moodr1ng]

ik i say this every other week but im so tired of thinking and overthinking and always thinking thinking thinking cant make it stop no matter how i try.. i can get as high as possible i wont be able to stop the thinking. i just want to be stupid and not have to think hard about anything. like i fr want to be freed of the burden of being eloquent and vaguely educated

#and ofc this clashes with my desire to be able to learn which is the main reason i wanna treat my adhd #but idk cause maybe the answer to chilling out and not THINKING all the time is to get busy with learning #cant be stuck in your own thoughts if youre focusing on someone elses thoughts #so basically i wanna go back to reading ig #but it feels so hard now. like a chore. it used to be my favorite thing in the world #as a kid i would ALWAYS be reading #walking down the street looking down at a book and making my mother so mad lol #at breakfast id grab the cereal box and read the fluff text over and over just to have something to focus on #now i cant read bc the internet is right there and offers way more stimuli than a book #so i cant convince myself to read #97

[mipeltaja]

Playing Judgment for the first time and nearly had a heart attack because for a split second I genuinely thought this was Haruka.

#Judgment #Yakuza #in my defense I was booking it down Tenkaichi street #because the main quest had just told me to go to Stardust #and trying to enter Stardust is like the first thing I do in every game #this lady was standing in the middle of the street facing me #thought I was meant to run into her at this point in the game #I registered the hairstyle and color scheme before I was close enough to see her face well

[hauntedhearse]

another Main Street display with Book from Hocus Pocus ∞

#upload #disneyland #disney #main street usa #book #spellbook #hocus pocus #halloween #spooky #spooky season

[spindash]

Hi everyone

#op #Walked around main street w kimmy for a bit and got my mom a sweater and a mug AND a book :-)

[foreverreverie]

🎈 That’s it. That’s the home of the clown. - - - - - A little experiment of one of the most famous houses in horror! I wanted to take some bits and pieces of the house from the films but still keep it closer in line to what’s it’s described as in the book. Architecture is most definitely not my strong suit, but because of the state of the house it was super fun to do. All of the colors were done on a single layer, and all of the brushes I used in the lining and coloring process were new to work with, and I really like how it turned out! 🖤

#it #stephen king #stephen king it #pennywise #the losers club #horror books #derry maine #fanart #digital art #29 neibolt street