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Mark Teppo

Jun

1

2021

“Snark Sells”: (Surprising) Blind Dates with Books from A Good Book

From A Good Book in Sumner, WA: It’s been one of those “making sh*t up” weeks. We do Blind Date books at the bookstore, and they’ve morphed from traditional blind date sorts of profile to Snark in a Brown Paper Wrap. It turns out that snark sells. Over the last few years, I’ve done more …

Feb

1

2021

A Complicated Love Story Set in Space by Shaun David Hutchinson

Shaun David Hutchinson’s A Complicated Love Story Set in Space follows three teens who wrestle with the comedic set-up of the title while escaping from a bathroom, fixing a leaking coolant conduit, and rebooting a recalcitrant computer. All of which leads to a lot of space folding, awkward conversations, and constantly thrilling set pieces that …

Aug

2

2016

Mark Teppo, photo by Brady Hall

Show Me the Funny

Where has all the funny gone? If reading is escapism, then I have to confess that, in the last few months, what I’m really looking for in my literature is something a little offbeat, a little surreal, and definitely funny. I don’t need more tragedy or pathos or–no, seriously–yet another novel about missing kids or …

Jun

10

2016

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Mark Teppo, photo by Brady Hall

Reading Personas

Reading is a solitary practice, yet it is also a strangely social practice. Writers write to be read, and we read to enjoy the opportunity to explore other spaces and other identities. And the fundamental nature of the book hasn’t changed much since we started slapping together piles of papyrus or kicking a scroll open …

Apr

15

2016

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remarks

Mark Teppo, photo by Brady Hall

When a Bookseller Visits…

Every leap year, Neil Gaiman’s clever note about taking writers out to dinner on February 29th circulates, and every leap year, writers rejoice. And a few of them actually get a decent meal, too. But what about booksellers? Extra Leap Year Day is already taken, and it’s sorta awkward if we try to muscle in …

Mar

25

2016

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Mark Teppo, photo by Brady Hall

Confessions of an Undercover Book Pimp

Sometimes, when you go to light a firework, the fuse sparks up and disappears into the tube, and then you wait . . . and wait . . . and wait, and just when you think you’ve got a dud, a tiny thread of smoke drifts out of the top. Everyone starts to find an …

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