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## We’ll Take It All

elizabeth bachinsky

From an email describing what donations the EVENT Book Sale was willing to accept in March 2012. Elizabeth Bachinsky is the editor of EVENT magazine and the author of three collections of poetry.

Quality trade paperbacks are always good. But we’ll take it all: cookbooks, self-help books, novelty books, art books, magazines, CDs, DVDs, hardcover fiction, poetry, non-fiction, that weird book your auntie gave you because she knows you are a writer but not what you like. How to have: good sex, better relationships, a happy dog (cat, horse, sheep, etc.), speak Spanish, do your taxes or wax your own eyebrows. Fashion, politics, humour, comic books, graphic novels, The Artist’s Way, The Celestine Prophecy, Stephen King. Those fucking Twilight books. Tuesdays with Morrie. Everyone fucking loves Tuesdays with Morrie. Horror. Sci-fi. Romance (not so much, but sure). Kids books! Kids books! Kids books! Just not my book. You recycle my book, you’re gonna get a talking-to.