This deeply personal and revealing autobiography details Paul’s voracious appetite for drugs and alcohol–exemplified by his search for an unobtainable buzz through morning-to-night binges–that led to his near fatal descent. With an obsession for celebrity culture and seeking approval and validation, he moved to LA only to find more opportunities for abuse. Just weeks before [...]

King of the Screwups by K.L. Going (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $17.00) Liam is a boy who always screws up.  When he is kicked out of his house he moves in with his Uncle Pete.  Liam has to decide to be himself (Mr. Popularity) or to be someone his father is proud of (a Nerd). —Reviewed [...]

     Juxtapoz May with Raymond Pettibon, Camille Rose Garcia (love her), Spike Jonze, Coop, Kevin Ancell, Glen E. Friedman Harper’s May with new fiction by Italo Calvino Mental Floss May/June the 10 issue including 10 Secrets of the Vatican Exposed, 10 Shocking Stories about Somali Pirates…

Moleskine has new stuff out.  They have two new sizes, cryptically labeled A4 and A5. We’re stocking the A4 (8 1/4 x 11 3/4″) in both the Sketchbook version and the Ruled Book version.  They’re so big they don’t fit in our lovely spinner rack and have to rest on top.

Stonecutter illus by Jon J. Muth, written by John Kuramoto (Feiwel and Friends, $14.99). Muth is best-known for his children’s picture books Zen Shorts and Zen Ties, and Stonecutter is labeled as a kid’s book but it’s really inspirational for all ages.  It’s packaged with my most-hated packaging design (the kind that shows that book designers [...]

Hardcover:    How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer Holy Sh*t: The World’s Weirdest Comic Books by Paul Gravett *Voluntary Madness by Norah Vincent Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man by Steve Harvey *2666 by Roberto Bolano I’m Sorry You Feel That Way by Diana Joseph   Paperback:    Pride & Prejudice & Zombies [...]

I updated the events page; we have a ton of stuff coming up this summer and fall including: Paul Cook of KMOV and Y98 Susan Vreeland Laurell K. Hamilton Art show and book signing with John Hendrix Art show and book signing with Matt Kindt

       Euclid online, Apop online, Vintage online

This was the largest single order I’ve ever placed (besides book signings) and we sold out of our original copies in 3 days.  I read somewhere that this is in it’s 6th printing already and it just came out 9 days ago. Sheesh.  Anyway, we have a ton back in stock now.

  Falling Down the Page: A Book of List Poems edited by Georgia Heard (Roaring Brook Press, $16.95). We’ve been selling a ton of this.  It has this crazy reporter’s notebook format which is a perfect design for the content.  It’s meant to inspire kids to write their own poetry using lists as a jumping-off [...]