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TO READ · 11/05/2015

50 Ways to Lose Your Glasses: Party Edition

ICYMI, we published a book (*which is insane) last week. To celebrate, we did what we always do: assemble a large group of people in a contained space, add booze, and go to town / raise the roof / have a ball / paint the town red.

ICYMI, we published a book (*which is insane) last week. To celebrate, we did what we always do: assemble a large group of people in a contained space and go to town / raise the roof / have a ball / paint the town red.

This particular party also featured a superb DJ who played trip-hop of Japanese origin, and some rather intriguing finger foods, such as the world’s smallest taco (no bigger than an adult man’s thumbnail!).

You can buy the book online or at your local bookseller (request it!), and you can see more of the talented illustrator’s work here.

And now, for some party pics.

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Warby Parker co-CEOs Dave Gilboa and Neil Blumenthal.

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Roof status: raised.

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This is our equivalent of sky-writing. Instead of renting a plane and inscribing the heavens with copy, we put words on cookies. It’s easier to read. And more edible. Probably better for the environment, too.

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Illustrator John Lee, looking crisper than a Ritz Cracker™ in his suit.

Neil Blumenthal & Paul Whitlatch

Neil Blumenthal and Paul Whitlatch of Hachette Books.

Warby Cuties

“True success is figuring out your life and career so you never have to be around jerks.” —John Waters. (Pictured above: successful people.)

He's Lovin It

More Warby Cuties

Michelle Aielli and Paul Whitlatch

Michelle Aielli (mysterious smile, left) and Paul Whitlatch (boyish grin, right)—luminaries of Hachette Books.

Smiles*Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof*

Gernert Ladies

*Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth*

Ned Klein and Alex Crane

Huggy Bear

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Sunglasses at night

Corey Hart wore his sunglasses at night and so do these gals, and all three are unstoppable.

Party Boys

Well Played

Seth Fishman and Paul Whitlatch

Xavier

Pretty Lady

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Teensy teensy tacosfan of books

And…that’s a wrap, partywise! Order your copy right now to continue the fun!

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TO BUY · 10/27/2015

HOLY SMOKES. OUR BOOK IS OUT.

We wrote a book—a real book! It’s called 50 WAYS TO LOSE YOUR GLASSES, written by Warby Parker, published by Hachette Books, and available nationwide starting…now!
The book consists of 50 witty, surreal, sometimes-realistic scenarios in which a pair of glasses might go missing. It’s the ideal gift (HELLO, STOCKING STUFFER SEASON!) for anyone who …

We wrote a book—a real book! It’s called 50 WAYS TO LOSE YOUR GLASSES, written by Warby Parker, published by Hachette Books, and available nationwide starting…now!

The book consists of 50 witty, surreal, sometimes-realistic scenarios in which a pair of glasses might go missing. It’s the ideal gift (HELLO, STOCKING STUFFER SEASON!) for anyone who has loved—and lost—a fine pair of frames.

You can buy the book from your retailer of choice (support independent bookstores!) by clicking right here.

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TO BUY · 09/28/2015

Books We Love: You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine

Now *that’s* how you title a novel!

Now *that’s* how you title a novel!

Alexandra Kleeman’s first novel has an unambiguously excellent title: You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine. The title is great in a few ways. One, it precisely summarizes the book’s themes (embodiment, consumption of all kinds, commercial exhortation of all kinds). Two, it transcends those themes. Three, the title’s direct-address reaches out and grabs a reader by the collar and shakes that collar with determination, which also happens to be how Kleeman’s prose functions.

The novel centers around two girls with twinlike qualities, and a boyfriend who is adjacent to one of the girls, and a cult and a grocery store. It has an atmosphere of ambivalent dread that might remind you of Don DeLillo’s great White Noise. A few other DeLillo-ish refrains appear in the novel, too: an obsession with TV commercials, a close-reading of supermarkets, a crafty wit, and an interest in the various odd ways that humans love and mimic each other.

The author lives in New York, is a PhD candidate in Rhetoric at UC Berkeley, writes for places like n+1 and enjoys covering the Ronettes. What’s not to love.

Add to cart!

 

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TO BUY · 09/14/2015

To Read: A Manual for Cleaning Women

Ooh look! It’s a little-known literary gem.

Ooh look! It’s a little-known literary gem.

The writer Lucia Berlin was born in Alaska in 1936 and spent part of her youth in Santiago, Chile, and parts of her adulthood in Mexico City, New York, Boulder, Los Angeles, and a handful of other places. She worked various jobs: house cleaner, teacher, hospital admin. She also wrote short stories and published them in tiny literary journals and through small presses. She died in 2004. But her writing lives!

“A Manual for Cleaning Women” is the first time Berlin’s work has gotten the full royal treatment: a four-hundred-page hardcover book with a lovely coral cover from the publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux. And oh, what an object to behold.

The 43 short stories within make a lively introduction to Berlin’s uncommon writerly habits. Her punctuation is idiosyncratic; her words are short; her observations are precise and often funny. (“Women’s voices always rise two octaves when they talk to cleaning women or cats.”) She loves a vigorous verb. Why eat a buttered biscuit when you can wolf it? Why step when you can lunge? Or reach when you can grasp?  And she pays close attention to the sonic nuances of everyday life: the hand-claps of girls playing playground games, the crack of a ball on cement, the clicking of beads on a necklace.

There’s much more to enjoy, too. Add this treasure to cart.

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TO DO · 09/10/2015

Fall Syllabus

Ladies and gentlepumpkins: welcome to autumn! We are so pleased to be running around in layers and planning non-beach-related activities.

Here’s a “high-level overview” of what we’ll be doing this fall—our fall syllabus, if you will!

Ladies and gentlepumpkins: welcome to autumn! We are so pleased to be running around in layers and planning non-beach-related activities.

Here’s a “high-level overview” of what we’ll be doing this fall—our fall syllabus, if you will!

CURRICULUM
(aka a selection of our favorite new books.)

You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman
Purity by Jonathan Franzen
City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg
The Heart of the Order by Theo Schell-Lambert
A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin

REQUIRED COURSEWORK
(aka autumn staple activities)

Watching the World Series with loved ones
Getting lost in a corn maze
Picking—or at least eating—apples
Stomping on crunchy leaves

ELECTIVES
(aka bonus activities)

Aggressive crossword puzzling
Hay ride
Pumpkin-carving

 

Share your syllabus with us on your *social media platform of choice* using the hashtag #fallsyllabus. We’re eager to get up in your plans.

And now: pencils down!

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TO SEE · 08/17/2015

Behold Our Pins, For They Are Magnificent

Here are some things we like: short-shorts, sassy lassies, Tutti Frutti, muddy buddies, Shaquille O’Neal, and humorous vintage pins that we order through eBay on slow Tuesday afternoons.

These things have nothing in common. It just seemed like a nice day to share a snapshot of our office pin collection with you.

Here are some things we like: short-shorts, sassy lassies, Tutti Frutti, muddy buddies, Shaquille O’Neal, and humorous vintage pins that we order through eBay on slow Tuesday afternoons.

These things have nothing in common.  It just seemed like a nice day to share a snapshot of our office pin collection with you.

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TO READ · 07/20/2015

Books We Love: My Brilliant Friend

Elena Ferrante’s characters move through the natural world, but the natural world moves through them, too.

Elena Ferrante’s characters move through the natural world, but the natural world moves through them, too.

In My Brilliant Friend, the Neapolitan novelist writes about violence, poverty and friendship in 1950s Naples in language that crackles with bluntness, terror, and beauty.

Centered around the relationship between two girls—Elena Greco and Lila Cerullo—the novel invokes visceral reactions that you’ll experience almost as strongly as the characters do. You’ll cringe at Elena’s neuroses, but only because her mind is full of the same tricks and traps you might wade through daily.

As the first of the four Neapolitan Novels, My Brilliant Friend is the ideal place to meet Elena and Lila. Start now and you’ll have plenty of time before the final book in the series, The Story of the Lost Child, is released in September.

Fun fact: Elena Ferrante is a pseudonym. For whom? It’s a secret. (As it should be.) “I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors,” she explained (anonymously) in a letter to her publisher.

Get it girl…whoever you are.

 

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