The Hush

What we do on the weekend.

Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:37 -0400

What we do on the weekend.

Parachute Party

Thu, 23 May 2013 11:09:38 -0400

Parachute Party

"All the while she was getting dressed she felt [the] poems standing upright all over the room. She..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 10:51:39 -0400

“All the while she was getting dressed she felt [the] poems standing upright all over the room. She even kept an eye on them in her dressingtable mirror, lest they escape into their natural vertical ascent.”

- J.D. Salinger, “The Inverted Forest”

downtownbooksandnews: Downtown Books had a fabulous facelift in...

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:43:26 -0400

downtownbooksandnews:

Downtown Books had a fabulous facelift in preparation for the opening of our new art space, The News Gallery. Tasteful decor and track lighting highlight the artwork of Jonas Gerard, hanging until July.

Mustache Friends

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:59:46 -0400

Mustache Friends

Fire Dragons

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:57:05 -0400

Fire Dragons

Khaled Hosseini’s new book dropped today! We at...

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:07:29 -0400

Khaled Hosseini’s new book dropped today! We at Malaprop’s are a little exited!!

a dance

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:05:32 -0400

a dance

Tickle Monster

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:05:06 -0400

Tickle Monster

Bibliotherapy

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:28:24 -0400

powells:

An expressive therapy that uses an individual’s relationship to the content of books and poetry as therapy.

Gail Godwin: Malaprop’s 5-19-13

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:24:08 -0400

Gail Godwin: Malaprop’s 5-19-13

Heart Break

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:01:54 -0400

Heart Break

long limbs

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:02:32 -0400

long limbs

strange green light

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:01:07 -0400

strange green light

the witch

Fri, 17 May 2013 01:15:21 -0400

the witch

Rainbow Spin

Fri, 17 May 2013 01:02:48 -0400

Rainbow Spin

flow

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:58:48 -0400

flow

nerves

Thu, 16 May 2013 23:59:12 -0400

nerves

Storm

Thu, 16 May 2013 23:55:55 -0400

Storm

anarcho-queer: Amazon Hires Neo Nazis To Intimidate Immigrant...

Thu, 16 May 2013 21:56:44 -0400

anarcho-queer:

Amazon Hires Neo Nazis To Intimidate Immigrant Workers In Germany

Amazon is at the centre of a deepening scandal in Germany as the online shopping giant faced claims that it employed security guards with neo-Nazi connections to intimidate its foreign workers.

Germany’s ARD television channel made the allegations in a documentary about Amazon’s treatment of more than 5,000 temporary staff from across Europe to work at its German packing and distribution centres.

The film showed omnipresent guards from a company named HESS Security wearing black uniforms, boots and with military haircuts. They were employed to keep order at hostels and budget hotels where foreign workers stayed. “Many of the workers are afraid,” the programme-makers said.

The documentary provided photographic evidence showing that guards regularly searched the bedrooms and kitchens of foreign staff. “They tell us they are the police here,” a Spanish woman complained. Workers were allegedly frisked to check they had not walked away with breakfast rolls.

Another worker called Maria said she was thrown out of the cramped chalet she shared with five others because she had dried her wet clothes on a wall heater. She said she was confronted by a muscular, tattooed security man and told to leave. The guards then shone car headlights at her in her chalet while she packed in an apparent attempt to intimidate her.

Several guards were shown wearing Thor Steinar clothing – a Berlin-based designer brand synonymous with the far-right in Germany. The Bundesliga football association and the federal parliament have both banned the label because of its neo-Nazi associations. Ironically, Amazon stopped selling the clothing for the same reasons in 2009.