Fireside Books of Palmer, AK was chosen as Shelf Awareness‘s Chalkboard of the Day: Fireside Books in Palmer, Alaska, shared a photo on Facebook of yesterday’s celebrate-two-holidays-on-one-chalkboard creation. The message: “Happy St. George’s Day & Shakespeare’s Birthday! 14% off purchase if you recite a sonnet (or a limerick–we’re not picky)! Spend $25 and we’ll give you a …
…[H]ow about a six-foot Shakespearean timeline? That’s right! Thirty-eight of the Bard’s best, detailed out in a handy wall chart that lets you envision the world of Shakespeare as never before. It’s got quizzes and Gant charts and even a pocket magnifier (for finding that oft-quoted soliloquy from the emo-est of Danish princes that is …
When you stop to think, it’s odd to celebrate the day a person, however famous, shuffled off this mortal coil. Regardless, this April 23rd marks the 400th Deathiversary of one William Shakespeare, a writer of no little renown, and the whole world is throwing a party. There are any number of commemorative activities underway where …
It’s autumn, and students are returning to the store in droves, like swallows to Capistrano. The scene brings to mind the famous opening of Don DeLillo’s White Noise—“The station wagons arrived at noon, a long shining line that coursed through the west campus”—although our students are arriving in hybrid SUVs in search of books for the …
While you make your plans to enjoy the holiday weekend, here are some links for you: Staff picks from Village Books in Bellingham Staff picks from Queen Anne Book Company in Seattle Staff favorites from Annie Bloom’s in Portland Top 10 bookstores in America according to Travel + Leisure Summer reading recommendations from Publishers Weekly Real …
If you Google my name (not that I’ll admit to having personal experience doing this) one of the first things you’ll see is a photo of a blond, bronzed bodybuilder wearing a tank top sized for a toddler. That’s not me. It’s someone with the same name, a guy who participated on a TV show called Gladiators that aired …
The wheels of publishing grind slowly by 21st century standards. Once a manuscript is completed—no rapid thing itself—it can take months or even years for it to be accepted, edited, scheduled, printed, and distributed. This is frustrating when you’re waiting for a new book from a favorite author (or you’re a bookseller explaining to an …
My very dear immediate supervisor, regretting the imminent departure of a coworker for greener pastures, rather hilariously suggested in front me—of all people—that when she goes, there will be no one left on staff who, like said, very dear immediate supervisor, occasionally lets slip that best old English word for sexual congress. (You know the …
