Salon is running a nice series on independent bookstores.
Our New T-shirt — Available Dec 8th
Posted in News on 30 November, 2011 by S&Co.
Artwork by Courtney Blazon.
Quotation by John Waters.
* Please note: image on shirt is black and white.
Evening Shopping
Posted in Events on 29 November, 2011 by S&Co.Please note our extended holiday hours:
Friday, Dec 2nd (First Friday): 6 to 9 pm.
Wednesday, Dec 7th (Noam Chomsky’s birthday): 7 to 10 pm.
Wednesday, Dec 14th (anniversary of shoe being thrown at George W. Bush): 7 to 10 pm.
Wednesday, Dec 21st: (1911: first use of getaway car in bank robbery): 7 to 10 pm.
Wine will be served and free gift wrap will be available. You parents! You adults! You who work the day shift! Come on out! These hours are for you.
NEW — Non Fiction Book Club
Posted in Books, Events on 25 November, 2011 by S&Co.A new Non Fiction Book Club is forming; it will meet at Shakespeare & Co. bimonthly starting in January. The first meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, January 10th, at 6:30 pm. The first selection is “Founding Brothers” by Joseph Ellis. Attendance is open to all; registration is not required; books must be purchased at Shakespeare & Co. For more information about the club contact club organizers Paul (509) 981-1317 or Lindsay (509) 981-0048.
Upcoming Events
Posted in News on 29 August, 2011 by S&Co.Sun, Nov. 13th: Tyler McMahon reads from his debut novel How the Mistakes Were Made. 7 pm.
Please join us!
Kids’ Book Group – Orientation Meeting
Posted in Events on 14 August, 2011 by S&Co.Shakespeare & Co. is pleased to announce the second season of the Kids’ Book Group. The Kids’ Book Group will meet the third Tuesday of every month (from September through May), from 6:00 to 7:00 PM, right here at the store. Lively discussion, a craft or activity, and snack accompany each meeting. Participants must be entering the fourth through seventh grades in the fall semester to join (no exceptions).
There will be an orientation meeting on Thursday, August 18th from 6:00 to 7:00 PM, at the bookstore.
For the first meeting, parents are welcome to attend, but the book club itself is strictly for kids only! In addition to perusing some titles and casting our votes, we will use this initial meeting to discuss some basic principles of being a member of a book club, and address any concerns of those who think that they are either too far below or above the designated reading level. And we’ll have refreshments too, of course!
The Arc of History Does Not Bend
Posted in Opinion, Politics on 8 August, 2011 by S&Co.Once again, Drew Westen on Obama:
THE real conundrum is why the president seems so compelled to take both sides of every issue, encouraging voters to project whatever they want on him, and hoping they won’t realize which hand is holding the rabbit. That a large section of the country views him as a socialist while many in his own party are concluding that he does not share their values speaks volumes — but not the volumes his advisers are selling: that if you make both the right and left mad, you must be doing something right.
Upcoming Events
Posted in Events on 1 July, 2011 by S&Co.Saturday, Sept. 3rd: A book signing with Joseph M. Marshall III. 1-3 pm.
Tuesday, Sept. 13th: Missoula novelist Rick Craig (The Last Mountains). 7 pm.
Heather Havrilesky writes:
Posted in Opinion on 6 June, 2011 by S&Co.Reviewing HBO’s “Game of Thrones”:
It’s strange, then, that fantasy writers would so often take the oddest quirks of the imagination and the loftiest flights of fancy and boil them down to the same pools of blood in the dust. Why invent nomadic tribes, noble kings and mythical creatures from whole cloth, only to doom them to repeat the worst mistakes of human history or reflect the saddest aspects of human nature? Surely, someone, somewhere can imagine an alternative to this endlessly repeated unhappy ending.
Ultimately, this is the worry with “Game of Thrones” — that, like so much in its genre, it will turn out to be all thrones and few games. Sure, the life-and-death, gods-and-girded-warriors gravitas of fantasy explains much of its appeal, but maybe we should try throwing in a gaggle of philosophers, artists, scientists and idealists, who might collaborate to lift us out of the mire of our shared dread, to prevent us from reproducing our own suffering in the generations to come. That way, maybe, instead of blindly fornicating and fighting ourselves to death in a repetitive loop, we might imagine a whole new ending. Isn’t that what fantasy is for?
