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We're all really enjoying Anne Helen Petersen's collection of essays, Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud, and can't wait to have her here in just a week on July 19th at 7pm. Check out our reviews and come join us! I've enjoyed Anne Helen Petersen's essays on Buzzfeed, so it was great to read this interesting … Continue reading Booksellers recommend: Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud
Happy book birthday to Gabe Hudson and Gork, the Teenage Dragon! Hudson will be here Tuesday, July 25th at 7pm to talk about his new book. After a meeting where booksellers are pitched books coming out in the upcoming months, my fellow booksellers and I shuffled through boxes filled with books to choose from. The colorful … Continue reading Bookseller Review: GORK, THE TEENAGE DRAGON
They’ve Come for Your Guts I named my in-store display ‘They’ve Come for Your Guts’ because each of these writers took my guts in loving, weathered hands and twisted, tweaked, polished, pinched, and molded them into something a little different than what they were before. On one level, I’m saying that the experience of reading … Continue reading They’ve Come for Your Guts
After over a decade of selling books, I finally get my own endcap to feature books to champion. I didn’t intend to pick all women writers when I started choosing, but after I realized that’s what I was doing, I kept going. At a glance, they seem pretty varied, but upon closer inspection, they all … Continue reading Consuelo’s favorite books
We true crime fans are witnessing a huge upswing in the popularity of our favorite genre right now. For some, that means indulging in gruesome details of murder and mayhem (e.g. The Last Podcast on the Left). For others, that means examining the darkest elements of humanity in order to ensure the safety of each … Continue reading The Fact of a Body and the Emotional Body of Law
This blog discusses Jacqueline Woodson's Another Brooklyn, a stunning entry in the National Book Awards shortlist, whose winner will be announced in a ceremony Nov. 16. To bone up for the great literary event, or to compare notes if you've already read the shortlist, see my reviews of The Throwback Special, News of the World, and The … Continue reading NBA Countdown: Another Brooklyn
On November 18, 1985, on ABC’s Monday Night Football, New York Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor shattered the leg of Washington Redskins quarterback Joe Theissman in a brutal play the Redskins later referred to as the "Throwback Special." And every year on November 18, in Chris Bachelder’s novel of that name, a group of 22 men … Continue reading NBA Countdown: The Throwback Special
Two books down, three to go in our weekly tour of the National Book Awards fiction shortlist! This week I curled up with Paulette Jiles’ delightful historical novel News of the World. Laugh and cry with me as you read about reading about an old man and a little girl whose deep bond is forged … Continue reading NBA Countdown: News of the World
For nerds like me, the words “NBA finals” resonate not so much because of giants sportsing hard as for a more thrilling contest whose outcome will be announced November 16: the National Book Awards. When 2016’s shortlist for fiction was released earlier this month, I had read exactly zero of the five picks. But, while my father … Continue reading NBA Countdown: The Underground Railroad
Ashes in My Mouth, Sand in My Shoes: Stories by Per Petterson ~post by Ben I came to Per Petterson’s Ashes in My Mouth, Sand in My Shoes not long after having read Nguyen Nhat Anh’s Ticket to Childhood (which I recommend strongly). Both approach childhood and, due to the temporal proximity with which … Continue reading Book Review: Ashes in My Mouth, Sand in My Shoes: Stories
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