Jul 10 2010
Ever come into our store, browse a bit, and come up empty-handed because you’re not finding the book or books you stopped in for? At that point, collar one of us and request that we special-order what you’re looking for. Please don’t hesitate to do this, or to suggest that we stock a given author [...]
Jul 01 2010
W. S. Merwin, one of Subterranean’s all-time favorite poets, will be the next US Poet Laureate.
May 24 2010
Ann Patchett, writing in the NY Times Magazine: Or, like me, you can go back to the bookstore. I know this is a modern world where books are overnighted to your doorstep and beamed to your hand-held device in under a minute. ..It is just so thrilling to be around people who read, people who will [...]
May 16 2010
In my weekly googling of Slavoj Žižek, I found a great list of the 100 Top Public Intellectuals, a joint production of Foreign Press (US) and The Prospect (UK). How cool! Names include Žižek, Noam Chomsky, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Thomas Friedman and Salman Rushdie. I don’t know most of the other people on the list but I [...]
May 08 2010
OK. So you read a great book and you want to reference it on your site. Even better. You want to GET PAID for referencing it on your site. Guess what? There are options other than Amazon. That’s right. Your friendly friends here at Subterranean offer the same sort of Affiliate program, only WE PAY [...]
Apr 20 2010
Congratulations to recently published Subterranean customers James Archer and Sheena Cook! Mr. Arthur has a book of poetry coming out from Copper Canyon Press. It’s called Charms Against Lightning. Check out one of his poems from the New Yorker. Ms. Cook had a piece selected for publication by the Potomac Review of Montgomery College, Maryland. [...]
Mar 17 2010
Years ago I got heavily into reggae music. It was an obsession for a while — and this was before reggae enjoyed the widespread mainstream popularity in the U.S. that it has now. One of my absolute favorite discoveries (in a London record store on Oxford Street) was a recording artist named Linton Kwesi Johnson, a Jamaican-born [...]
Mar 16 2010
We are ordering so many cool new kids books for Spring/Summer (for those of you who missed out on our Resort 2010 line). They are like the best Disney films that can be appreciated by both kids and adults alike, but minus all the secret phallic imagery (I said no, Aladdin!) I am particularly excited [...]