**Update: Photos from the opening here. Friday, October 2: Opening Reception and Book Signing with Matt Kindt, 7pm @ Subterranean, Free                                      Matt Kindt is a very successful local illustrator and Subterranean is lucky to have landed the book signing for his fourth book 3 Story: The History of the Giant Man  from graphic novel publisher [...]

Flight of the Phoenix (Nathaniel Fludd, Beastologist #1) by R.L. LaFevers (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $16.00) This book is about a young boy named Nate who lost his parents after they died at sea, so then he goes to live with his aunt.  Nate’s Aunt is a Beastologist, this means that she discovers beasts.  Nate and [...]

As independent booksellers, at this point in history, we have our work cut out for us, but fortunately for us we love our work and don’t mind the challenge. And, luckily, we have you, our loyal and regular customers — as well as all the many, many out-of-towners who stop in the store and make a [...]

Ron Currie, Jr. Richard Newman of River Styx Devil at the Confluence Sharon Shinn details here

Um… Yeah. A little late.                  Hardcover: Zeitoun by Dave Eggers Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk Methland by Nick Reding Asterios Polyp by David  Mazzucchelli Johannes Cabal and the Necromancer by Jonathon Howard Cahokia by Timothy Pauketat              Paperback: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth [...]

You’ve died and been reincarnated. Whom would you like to come back as? 1. Leonardo Da Vinci 38% 2. Duke Ellington 27% 3. Emily Bronte 10% 4. Josef Stalin 9% 5. Jesus Christ 7% 6. Marc Bolan  6%

It’s time for Thursday Child Story Time at Subterranean from 11:30am- 12 noon.

Starting tonight and continuing through this Saturday (19th) the PLAY:stl Music Festival rages throughout the Loop.  So cool.                                

Hate to use that word, “stunning” – it’s been cheapened by overuse in a million dust jacket blurbs – but in the case of Magnum Magnum (Thames & Hudson, $34.95) it’s the only one that’ll do. This new book of over 400 images is culled from Magnum Photos’ depthless archives, which document a good chunk of the [...]

And we have plenty of copies in stock.