I suppose it shouldn’t surprise me, but it brings home the bullshit in a special way when I’m going through the Summer 2009 HarperCollins catalog and I see that Dick Morris (& Eileen McGann) have announced MELTDOWN, the story of the first 100 days of the Obama (or McCain!) administration. TO BE PUBLISHED IN JUNE 2009, ONE-DAY LAYDOWN 6/23!
Archive for January, 2009
Good News
Posted in News, Reading with tags fiction, Reading on 12 January, 2009 by JennaSo, the stats are a little murky, but it’s good news nonetheless. Check out this NY Times article about America’s rising percentage of fiction readers.
Collecting Dust in the Attic
Posted in Books on 11 January, 2009 by JennaBy the time it closed in 1995 after 126 years of operation, Willard
Psychiatric Center, overlooking Seneca Lake in upstate New York, had been home to over 54,000 people. If not for the discovery of more than 400 suitcases filled with patients’ belongings in the hospital attic, their lives would have been lost to history. In The Lives They Left Behind, the contents of 10 of these suitcases are skilfully examined and compared to the written record to create a moving–and devastating–group portrait of 20th century American psychiatric care.
The Lives They Left Behind, by Darby Penney and Peter Stastny (Bellevue Literary Press, $14.95), IN STOCK
Reaper, reviewed.
Posted in Books with tags Beat the Reaper, Josh Bazell on 10 January, 2009 by S&Co.The New York Times Book Review on Josh Bazell’s Beat the Reaper.
This book is now IN STOCK.
Believer, Poem
Posted in Magazines, News with tags Michael Earl Craig, The Believer Magazine on 9 January, 2009 by S&Co.
One of our favorite Montana poets, Michael Earl Craig of Livingston, has a poem in the January 2009 issue of The Believer magazine (see the table of contents here.)
Congratulations, Earl!
New in Stock
Posted in Books, Journals with tags Brandon Shimoda, Joshua Casteel, Letters from Abu Ghraib, Paris Review on 7 January, 2009 by S&Co.
New Mark Gibbons Book
Posted in Books, News with tags Mark Gibbons, Michael Revere on 7 January, 2009 by S&Co.
Montana poets Mark Gibbons (of Missoula) and Michael Revere have collaborated on a book of poetry. The book, entitled War, Madness, & Love ($14), is now in stock at Shakespeare & Co.
Gibbons’s previous books are Connemara Moonshine (2002) and Blue Horizon (2007).
My Mistress’s Sparrow Is Dead
Posted in Books with tags Eugenides, Love, Short Stories on 3 January, 2009 by Jenna
So…let’s say you’re out on a stroll, thinking about what book to read next. You really, really want to read something you know is going to be good (who wants to waste their time getting part way through a book only to put it down, unfinished?). And let’s say you happen to cross paths with Jeffrey Eugenides. Yo Jeff!, you say, executing a high five and some secret handshake. I need a book, dude! Written anything new lately? Eugenides shakes his head, kindly reminding you that Pulitzer Prize winners don’t happen overnight. But, being the good friend he is, he offers, You like short stories? Now, you don’t want to embarrass yourself by admitting to Jeffrey Eugenides that you don’t know if you’ve ever read a short story in your life (or at least not voluntarily). Love ‘em, you say. Got any you’d recommend off the top of your head?
This book would be Eugenides’s answer. (And by the way, he knows you’re lying, but he’ll forgive you if you buy a copy.)
My Mistress’s Sparrow Is Dead, edited by Jeffrey Eugenides (acclaimed author of Middlesex) is a collection of short stories, all relating to love, from some of the best writers of the English language (to name a few…Chekhov, Faulkner, Milan Kundera, Alice Munro, Richard Ford, Bernard Malamud, Stuart Dybek, Raymond Carver, Miranda July…and more). It is hands down one of my favorite new books of ’08, and it’s now out in paperback! My Mistress’s Sparrow Is Dead would make a great gift for Valentine’s Day (though be warned…”love” stories aren’t necessarily happy stories), or just for yourself. Come check it out.
My Mistress’s Sparrow Is Dead, edited by Jeffrey Eugenides (Harper Perennial, $15.99)
Carlo’s Big Moving Sale
Posted in Events, News on 2 January, 2009 by S&Co.We are happy to announce that Carlo’s One Night Stand will soon move up the street to occupy Shakespeare’s now-former 2nd space at 109 S. 3rd. Watch for their huge MOVING SALE, kicking off Saturday, Jan 10th.
