I sit back and read the announcement’s first paragraph, that whole thing about If Not for This being “crowned.” I reread that, all royalty. But then I get to the killer line, the Jurassic-scale fly in the ointment; “…we would like each winner to choose his or her favorite PNBA member bookstore…” Seriously? One? I …
You have to read Susanna Burke’s account of walking into a media/tech mogul schmooze-fest in Sun Valley accompanied by only a Lionel Shriver book. It doesn’t take long for her to get chatted up (she describes herself as a naive-looking blonde) by a friend of Jeff Bezos, who then leads her to a table with …
Day 23 and we’ve got children’s author/illustrator Leslie Patricelli (if you have small children, you’ll recognize her bright and pleasing board books), who says: “It’s looking a lot like Christmas here in Sun Valley, Idaho. It’s feeling like it, too. It was 5 degrees outside when I brought my kids to school this morning! Brrr! Though there’s …
Editor’s Note: We first published this post about Iconoclast Books last spring. We got to drop in on Iconoclast Books (Ketchum, Idaho) and its dynamic owner Sarah Hedrick on a road trip last week. Hedrick is about as welcoming a bookstore hostess as you could imagine (What’s that you’re drinking, Tully’s? Throw that out. How …
Whenever we buy a book, we say we buy a “copy” of it. We buy a copy of Gravity’s Rainbow, say, and we carry our copy home. We open it; we fall into it. And it is here that the word “copy” fails. Because what I experience when I read Gravity’s Rainbow, or Beloved, or …
