If you like lists, you’ll love Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans, a McSweeney’s compendium. Lots of tasty lists up in that joint. If you ever shop here and think that we’re behind the counter doing really smart things, the chances are about 80% that you’re right, unless I’m behind the counter, at which point [...]

Perhaps, one day, the bookstore can host book-themed soirees. If we were to do one for the release of Harry Potter 7, I’d like to see the following on the menu: Mudblood Pudding :: Jellied Scabbers :: Quaffle Drippings :: Snippets of Filch :: Nicolas Flambe :: Half-Blood Hummus :: Steak Karkaroff :: Padfoot Thai [...]

Anybody who has spent some time in the store knows that one of the favorite topics of conversation around the front desk is photographer/filmmaker macabre Charlie White–both pro and con (a fun game to play would be to guess who of us falls into each camp). White was recently part of Adidas’ seven-week Adicolor podcast [...]

So our new slogan’s gonna be: Winner of The Best Book Store 6 Years in a Row! (except for THAT ONE year) UPDATE: You know I’m kidding, right?

This might get a little circuitous. Our friend Sandy turned me on to a blogger I’ve been reading regularly. In a recent post the blogger reprints a speech Ode to Independent Booksellers by a young adult author given at a recent book convention. Part of it reads: “Independents are the Iggy Pop of the book [...]

We’ve finally bowed to the crushing pressure and extended our hours. Plus, with Jeremy on the team we actually have staff to cover them. Our new hours are: Monday through Thursday 11-8pm Friday and Saturday 11-10pm Sunday 12-6pm Ok, so it’s not such a big change, but really, we do much better with babysteps around [...]

I think it started after I read somewhere that a person had kept a log of every book she’d read. And I started wondering, how many books have I read? And if I had to answer how many I had read in the previous year (which does come up in the book business) I could [...]

1. Max Brooks : The Zombie Survival Guide 2. Alexander Roob : Alchemy & Mysticism   3. Milan Kundera : The Unbearable Lightness of Being   4. Mark Z. Danielewski : House of Leaves   5. George Orwell : Nineteen Eighty-Four

I don’t mean to be solipsistic here, but I found something today that was interesting. Actually, the phenomenon is well known, but it’s the first time it happened to me. So I’ve got a personal blog. It’s nothing special; I’m just keeping a digital record of my progress on reading all 100 works David Pringle [...]

And before Data there was Spock. And before Shatner’s “Rocketman” there was…