From the monthly archives:
The Weekly Shelf Talker is our Friday column, in which a Vroman’s employee recommends a great book, new or old, fiction or not, for you to enjoy. This week’s Shelf Talker is from Anne Edkins, who recommends The Klondike Fever: A few years ago, my husband and I took an Alaskan cruise, lured to the [...]
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Dan Kennedy is the author of Loser Goes First: My Thirty-Something Years of Dumb Luck and Minor Humiliation and is a frequent contributor to McSweeney’s. Dan will be reading from and signing his new book, Rock On: An Office Power Ballad at Vroman’s on Saturday, March 1 (that’s this Saturday, folks) at 3 pm. Dan [...]
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The Morning News has its annual Tournament of Books happening again this March, but as The Millions has noted, no office pool. Darn. I still need to make back all the money I lost in my Oscar pool (screw you, people who didn’t vote for Paul Thomas Anderson) and plan to lose in my NCAA [...]
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As has been noted elsewhere today, William F. Buckley Jr. has passed away. I appreciated this Q&A with NY Times Book Review editor Sam Tanenhaus, who happens to be writing a biography of Buckely. Amongst the discussed: Did Buckley recant his opposition to the civil rights movement, who were his major influences, and did he [...]
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As a bookseller, one of the best methods for recommending a book to someone is to ask him what he last read that he really liked, then recommend something similar. This strategy works much of the time, as it isn’t that hard to say “Oh, you liked Fight Club. Have you read The Subject Steve?” [...]
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My Monday morning inbox was packed with news of Dutton’s Brentwood’s closing on April 30. The Elegant Variation has suggested a customer-supported bail out, ala Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park. Ron Hogan, writing at Galley Cat has a very nice eulogy, which is fitting, since he got his start in the book business at Dutton’s. [...]
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The Weekly Shelf Talker is our weekly column, in which a Vroman’s employee recommends a great book, new or old, fiction or not, for you to enjoy. This week’s Shelf Talker is from Lee Kelley. She recommends Lady Macbeth, by Susan Fraser King. This is definitely not Shakespeare’s Macbeth! This is a wondrous tale of [...]
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The Academy Awards are airing this Sunday, complete with jokes about Obama (“Barack Obama’s won so many contests in a row, he’s now the favorite to win Best Sound Effects Editing!”), McCain, the writers’ strike, Facebook, and every other a la moment bit of hackery the newly contracted writers can cook up. Everybody has their [...]
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Today’s LA Times features a profile of despotic super producer Scott Rudin, who owns the film rights to basically every novel of note to come out in the last five years. How does he do it? The article offers a window into his methods: A voracious reader who is famous for acquiring books before anyone [...]
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The Millions will be running Short Story Week this week, taking a look at the state of the art form, predicting the future of the short story, and recommending a few great collections and stories themselves. Additionally, I wanted to point everyone to the Vroman’s GoodReads page, where I’ve started a discussion, inspired by the [...]
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