Posts Tagged: Margaret Atwood

December 6, 2011

Booksellers Rock! Stacie Michelle Williams at Boswell Book Company

Booksellers Rock! Stacie Michelle Williams at Boswell Book Company

Name: Stacie Michelle Williams Bookstore: Boswell Book Company Title: We’re still working on one, but I do a lot with author events Brief Bio.: A lifelong bibliophile who taught herself to read by age …

December 5, 2011

Algonquin Authors Pick Their Favorite Books of 2011 (Part 1)

Algonquin Authors Pick Their Favorite Books of 2011 (Part 1)

Tayari Jones, author of Silver Sparrow The Love Wife by Gish Jen:  This novel takes us to the heart of the most complicated–and a complicating–American family. It broke my heart and then …

November 8, 2011

Margaret Atwood, Age 17, from <i>First Words</i>

Margaret Atwood, Age 17, from First Words

First Words is a collection of early writings from twenty-two famous authors, collected and edited by Paul Mandelbaum. Today we’re featuring one of Booker Prize-winning author Margaret Atwood’s first stabs at short …

September 21, 2011

Booksellers Rock! Josh Christie, Sherman’s Books and Stationery

Booksellers Rock! Josh Christie, Sherman’s Books and Stationery

Name: Josh Christie Bookstore: Sherman’s Books and Stationery, Freeport Title: Bookseller Brief Bio: Josh Christie started his career in bookselling in 2004, working as a frontline bookseller at Sherman’s Books and Stationery …

July 11, 2011

Booksellers Rock!  Liberty Hardy, RiverRun Bookstore

Booksellers Rock! Liberty Hardy, RiverRun Bookstore

Name: Liberty Hardy Bookstore: RiverRun Bookstore Title: Book Slinger Brief Bio: Voracious velocireader. General mischief maker. Currently manning the switchboard in the Write Place, Write Time secret volcano lair (www.writeplacewritetime.tumblr.com). What books …

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 …