Posts Tagged: Jay Varner

December 20, 2010

Booksellers Rock!  Rob Dougherty, Clinton Book Shop

Booksellers Rock! Rob Dougherty, Clinton Book Shop

What books recently rocked my world: Nothing Left To Burn by Jay Varner (suck-up alert), Room by Emma Donoghue, Innocent Monster by Reed Farrel Coleman, and Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. …

October 15, 2010

Detroit Diary The GLIBA trade show

DETROIT DIARY Morning BBQ, Bookstores in Airports, & Red Cowboy Boots: Life on the road at GLIBA’s trade show . Monday, October 7th, 10:48am: On Friday, Algonquin has me all set to …

September 23, 2010

Read This: Nothing Left To Burn Excerpt

Jay Varner is on fire this week! (Sorry, we couldn’t resist … ) . Appearing at trade shows from New Jersey to Florida, being interviewed by the likes of Entertainment Weekly, The …

September 22, 2010

AN INTERVIEW WITH Jay Varner

Jay Varner, author of the brilliant memoir Nothing Left to Burn, offers some insights on the origins of his memoir, the tricky business of writing about a small town, good books, and …

September 21, 2010

nothing left to burn video trailer

This week we’ll be featuring the beautiful, poignant, searing memoir Nothing Left to Burn by Jay Varner. . One of our favorite authors, John Jeremiah Sullivan, wrote: . “The son reports on fires …