From the monthly archives:
This morning on the train on my way to work (Take that, New York! It’s beautiful here year-round, and I can take the train to work), I was When You Are Engulfed in Flames. When the train jostled into a station, I looked up to see a woman a little ways down the car reading [...]
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While everybody else on the net seems contractually obligated to recommend you go to the Salman Rushdie event on Monday night (an event that costs $20, by the way), I’d like to point out that tomorrow evening, Vroman’s will be hosting the Booker Prize winning author in our courtyard. For free (well, if you want [...]
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It’s been a slow week, blogging wise, which means it’s been a really busy week otherwise. I promise that new and terrifying developments are coming soon to the Vroman’s blog. I don’t want to build it up too much. I learned my lesson from the ABA, who hyped their “new initiative” all day long like [...]
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Emma Straub, whose Avery Anthology blog has been terrific the past few weeks, has an interview up with author Rae Meadows (Calling Out, No One Tells Everything). At the end of the interview, she asks a funny question: ES: Lastly, is there a secret talent or obsession of yours that you’d like to share with [...]
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I haven’t posted anything today. I’ve spent the last few hours researching various podcasting software so that you may one day be able to hear my voice on this very blog (and, I suppose, the voice of the author I’m interviewing). In lieu of a real blog post, I offer you Kevin Nealon, who will [...]
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After two marathon posts about BEA, I’m not sure what blogginess I’ve got in me today, so I’ll make this brief. Stephanie Klein, who will be at Vroman’s this Tuesday, is guest blogging at Powell’s. Check it out. Emma Straub interviews Lorrie Moore about what kind of music she likes over at the Avery Anthology [...]
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Friday morning, groggy and stiff, I took the train to the LA Convention Center. I spotted Steve Bercu, owner of legendary Austin, TX indie Book People on the train (this is what passes as a celebrity sighting in the independent bookstore world). At the Convention Center, I got my badge and wandered over to the [...]
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Like any major convention, Book Expo America, the largest publishing industry trade show of the year, makes for fast friends, exhaustion, some free food and booze, and sore feet. When such a trade show occurs in your hometown, it can be devastatingly tiring — when you get home from slogging through the convention, mingling until [...]
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I probably should’ve mentioned this in my previous post, but what the hell. David Sedaris’ newest book, the excellently titled and covered When You Are Engulfed in Flames, comes out today. Vroman’s is hosting Sedaris on Sunday, June 29 at 5 pm. Tickets are on sale now. They are $25.99 plus tax (that’s the price [...]
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Well, BEA is over. I staggered into work this morning to find about a thousand RSS feed updates to read in addition to a whole mess of emails. A full write-up (with pictures!) is coming tomorrow, but in the meantime, you can read a condensed version of my experience at The Millions. In lieu of [...]
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