Giveaway Monday: The Art Forger
May 20, 2013
Tomorrow is its official publication day, but The Art Forger is already climbing up the paperback bestseller lists — #6 on IndieBound’s list, #5 on the Boston Globe’s list. And today is …
December 6, 2010
Booksellers Rock! Emma Straub, BookCourt
Emma Straub is a native New Yorker. Her debut collection of short stories, Other People We Married, will be published by FiveChapters Books in February. She works at BookCourt, one of Brooklyn’s …
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December 3, 2010
In Memoriam: In the Time of the Butterflies
Algonquin author Julia Alvarez, who grew up hearing stories about the Mirabal sisters, and whose family fled the Dominican Republic only months before the tragic deaths, immortalized the sisters’ story in her …
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December 2, 2010
Richard Louv in the New York Times
In her “Personal Health” column in Tuesday’s New York Times, Jane Brody wrote, “I urge you to read the best-selling book Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv, who coined the …
November 30, 2010
Why I Love Books November Roundup
I would like to make a motion to take “November” and rename it “Yesvember”. An entire month beginning with the word “no” acts as a subliminal discouragement. It’s bad for morale. If …
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November 29, 2010
What We’re Reading: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
I discovered the writing of Lydia Davis during my freshman year at Sarah Lawrence College, when a friend loaned me a copy of her first short story collection, Break it Down, and …
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November 23, 2010
Happy Thanksgiving! From my mom…
Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! I’m flying out to see my parents this afternoon, but wanted to get in one last post before the holiday. Thinking about the best parts of Thanksgiving, what I’m …
November 22, 2010
This Thanksgiving Get Seasoned In The South
Heather Lende, author of the beautiful memoirs Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs and If You Lived Here, I’d Know Your Name, has a new column in Woman’s Day. …
November 19, 2010
Booksellers Rock! Michele Filgate, RiverRun Books
Michele Filgate is the Events Coordinator at RiverRun Books in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. She recently made New Hampshire Magazine‘s “It List” for 2010. Michele is a writer and a book critic, and …
