• Frank McCourt passed away on Sunday.
• Today, forty years ago, man first walked on the Moon. (By the way: we did. We REALLY did.) Read about it in Buzz Aldrin's book Magnificent Desolation.
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Tonight we are very pleased to welcome back to our District store our friend Paul Collins, who will read from his new book The Book of William. If you love Shakespeare like we do, we know we'll see you there.
Monday, July 20, 2009
Friday, July 17, 2009
Good Afternoon, Friday...and have a nice weekend!
• Kindle's crack.
• An annotated list of 61 essential post-modern reads from the LA Times book blog, Jacket Copy.
• Salman Rusdie had dinner with Thomas Pynchon! "He was extremely Pynchon-eque."
***
No events this evening. Enjoy the sun.
• An annotated list of 61 essential post-modern reads from the LA Times book blog, Jacket Copy.
• Salman Rusdie had dinner with Thomas Pynchon! "He was extremely Pynchon-eque."
***
No events this evening. Enjoy the sun.
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Dog of the Week
Dog of the week, it's been good to have you back. We've had quite a dog dry spell at University Book Store, but the last few weeks have brought a new crop of four-legged, furry friends to our store, and we've been happy to share images of them with you.
Up there is a little boxer puppy named Bjorn. She didn't want her photo to be taken at first—preferring instead to sit in the photographer's lap—but when her human picked her up, she managed to pay attention and pose for the camera. Good girl, Bjorn.
Buenos Días, Thursday!
• Malachy McCourt has said that his brother Frank—author of Angela's Ashes—is gravely ill and "not expected to live."
• Aram Saroyan talks about the Beats on the Poetry Foundation's website.
• The film version of David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men will be out in September.
• Shop Independent. Be Independent. Be Green, Too.
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Tonight we host local author and playwright Lisa Mantchev. She'll be reading from her theatrically fantastic novel Eyes Like Stars. Join us at our U District store for the event.
• Aram Saroyan talks about the Beats on the Poetry Foundation's website.
• The film version of David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men will be out in September.
• Shop Independent. Be Independent. Be Green, Too.
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Tonight we host local author and playwright Lisa Mantchev. She'll be reading from her theatrically fantastic novel Eyes Like Stars. Join us at our U District store for the event.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Good Morning, Tuesday
Here are some book-related links from the interweb.
• James Wolcott on his problem with the Kindle: You can't see what people are reading. (Which is, in fact, one of Sherman Alexie's problems with the Kindle.)
• Discovered on the NYRB classics blog, here's Jhumpa Lahiri in conversation with the wonderful Mavis Gallant. Get Gallant here.
• Happy Bastille Day, Seattle!
***
Two events tonight. Here in the U District store, we are welcoming Nalo Hopkinson, author of The Salt Roads and Clarion West faculty member.
And at the Northgate branch of the Seattle Public Library, David B. Williams will read from his book Stories in Stone].
• James Wolcott on his problem with the Kindle: You can't see what people are reading. (Which is, in fact, one of Sherman Alexie's problems with the Kindle.)
• Discovered on the NYRB classics blog, here's Jhumpa Lahiri in conversation with the wonderful Mavis Gallant. Get Gallant here.
• Happy Bastille Day, Seattle!
***
Two events tonight. Here in the U District store, we are welcoming Nalo Hopkinson, author of The Salt Roads and Clarion West faculty member.
And at the Northgate branch of the Seattle Public Library, David B. Williams will read from his book Stories in Stone].
Monday, July 13, 2009
Good Morning, Monday!
Here are a few things that caught our eye in the literary sites on the internet.
• Laila Lalami, pioneering lit blogger, had her novel Secret Son chosen as the 2010 Seattle Reads book.
• From the New York Times, this essay about the novel The Ugly American.
• From The Onion: Unconventional Director Sets Shakespeare Play In Time, Place Shakespeare Intended.
• Local author Boyd Morrison goes from self-published on Kindle to book deal, and Galleycat notices.
***
Tonight, University Book Store is selling books for the Colum McCann reading at the Seattle Public Library's Central Branch. The event begins at 7pm. McCann will read from his new novel, Let the Great World Spin.
Of McCann, Peter Carey says: "Colum McCann is a giant amongst us—fearless, huge-hearted, a poet with every living breath."\
Here's a review of the book from The Seattle Times.
• Laila Lalami, pioneering lit blogger, had her novel Secret Son chosen as the 2010 Seattle Reads book.
• From the New York Times, this essay about the novel The Ugly American.
• From The Onion: Unconventional Director Sets Shakespeare Play In Time, Place Shakespeare Intended.
• Local author Boyd Morrison goes from self-published on Kindle to book deal, and Galleycat notices.
***
Tonight, University Book Store is selling books for the Colum McCann reading at the Seattle Public Library's Central Branch. The event begins at 7pm. McCann will read from his new novel, Let the Great World Spin.
Of McCann, Peter Carey says: "Colum McCann is a giant amongst us—fearless, huge-hearted, a poet with every living breath."\
Here's a review of the book from The Seattle Times.
Friday, July 10, 2009
Good Afternoon, Friday!
Book-related stories that caught my eye today.
• Oregon indie publisher Tin House turned 10. Happy birthday.
• Hemingway wanted to spy for the KGB? (H/t to Paul Constant at The Stranger.)
• The New York Review of Books Fiction issue includes this fine essay by Michael Chabon.
***
No events tonight. Our staff will rest.
• Oregon indie publisher Tin House turned 10. Happy birthday.
• Hemingway wanted to spy for the KGB? (H/t to Paul Constant at The Stranger.)
• The New York Review of Books Fiction issue includes this fine essay by Michael Chabon.
***
No events tonight. Our staff will rest.
Thursday, July 09, 2009
Good Morning, Thursday.
Hey there. Here's a quick tour of the online literary world.
• Mental Floss magazine lists the longest-running novel series for readers who want to spend the Summer (and Fall, and Winter, and Spring, and next Summer, and next Fall, etc.) reading about only one character, group of characters, or setting. (Did you know that including spin-offs there were 709 Mac Bolan books!)
• HBO will be making a television series out of Jeffrey Eugenides novel Middlesex. Also potentially exciting: HBO's collaboration with one of my favorite writers, Jonathan Ames, on the series Bored to Death.
• Nabokov's The Original of Laura will come out in December, but one week before the pub date, an excerpt will appear in Playboy, giving his readers a chance to pull out that "I only read Playboy for the articles" joke.
***
Tonight University Book Store welcomes science fiction/thriller writer David J. Williams to the store. He begins at 7pm, and will be reading from his book Burning Skies, which Philip K. Dick award winner Stephen Baxter called "Tom Clancy interfacing with Bruce Sterling."
• Mental Floss magazine lists the longest-running novel series for readers who want to spend the Summer (and Fall, and Winter, and Spring, and next Summer, and next Fall, etc.) reading about only one character, group of characters, or setting. (Did you know that including spin-offs there were 709 Mac Bolan books!)
• HBO will be making a television series out of Jeffrey Eugenides novel Middlesex. Also potentially exciting: HBO's collaboration with one of my favorite writers, Jonathan Ames, on the series Bored to Death.
• Nabokov's The Original of Laura will come out in December, but one week before the pub date, an excerpt will appear in Playboy, giving his readers a chance to pull out that "I only read Playboy for the articles" joke.
***
Tonight University Book Store welcomes science fiction/thriller writer David J. Williams to the store. He begins at 7pm, and will be reading from his book Burning Skies, which Philip K. Dick award winner Stephen Baxter called "Tom Clancy interfacing with Bruce Sterling."
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