From the monthly archives:
When you’ve been around for over 110 years, you’re bound to accumulate your fare share of myths and ghost stories, and Vroman’s is no different. My coworker Anne has heard from a local psychic that Vroman’s may be haunted by the ghost of our founder, A.C. Vroman. Anne, however, is unconvinced: “Since ghosts haunt places, [...]
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Courtesy of our friends at Off the Page with Melinda Lee on KNX 1070 News Radio, we’ve got a handful of tickets to give away to the upcoming November 7 appearance of Marcus Buckingham at Azusa Pacific University. The Cambridge-educated Buckingham has been the subject of in-depth profiles in The New York Times, Fortune, Fast [...]
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This photo was taken last week, when George Hamilton had his event at the store. For those of you who weren’t there, you missed an epic evening with the Tanned One. He told stories for about an hour, then signed copies of his new memoir Don’t Mind If I Do. A typical George Hamilton story [...]
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This morning when I checked my Google Reader page, I discovered this post on the Guardian Book Blog about Halloween-related fiction: There’s horror in Bradbury’s stories – why else would I be recommending him for Halloween? – but it’s not the horror of blood and gore. It’s the horror of ringing telephones, the horror of [...]
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Unless you’ve been living under a rock or, I don’t know, focusing on the election or something, you probably know that Oprah is just crazy about Amazon’s ebook reader the Kindle. It is, in fact, her “new favorite thing in the world.” This is bad news for bookstores, as Amazon uses a special ebook format [...]
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Seattle author Jennie Shortridge will be at Vroman’s Sunday, October 19 at 5 p.m. to read from and discuss her latest novel, Love and Biology at the Center of the Universe, quickly becoming a book club favorite. Called “smart, funny, and wise,” by author Garth Stein (The Art of Racing in the Rain) it’s the [...]
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Anybody else noticed that vampires are suddenly everywhere? It’s like the early 90s all over again. These things are always cyclical. On with the links: Via Kottke.org comes the thrilling news that Brad Pitt will star in the film adaptation of Moneyball. Kottke.org was full of great finds this morning, including this interesting list of [...]
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As promised, today the National Book Award finalists were announced. There were a few surprises, in my opinion, including the inclusion of Salvatore Scibona for his novel The End (a coup for the wonderful Graywolf Press) and the omission of Nam Le, who I thought was the one shoe-in for the list. Below are the [...]
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