Branch Adams Book News: Kittens, Wine and Hustle Pasadena’s Vroman’s Bookstore Opens Literature-Inspired Wine Bar Next Month Lovers of books and booze will feel right at home at the 1894, the soon-to-debut wine bar located inside Vromans Bookstore in Pasadena. Bentley Hale of Sip Happens Wine School is heading up the drinks program, so expect to find … Read more
Nourishing ‘long roots’: In a year, Madison Books has forged an essential role in one of Seattle’s oldest communities The community was home to the citys first ball field, an amusement park, a grand pavilion that hosted concerts and plays,and a menagerie, which was the site of Seattles first (and likely only) elephant rampage. When … Read more
Top 10 political travel books Works ranging from Beryl Bainbridge in Milton Keynes to Salman Rushdie in Nicaragua show how politics has driven many writers’ journeys All travel is political. You can’t set foot outside the house without encountering other people, which inevitably prompts consideration of their lives in comparison to yours. [Read More] The … Read more
Many of our readers love reading entire collections of certain series, I happen to be going through Patrick O’Brian’s terrific sea tales at the moment, so we offer a convenient list for them. Today is on Alexander McCall Smith’s series – The No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, as usual in order. [Also: James Patterson’s Books … Read more
from The Chicago Grid For 10 years, Teresa Kirschbraun kept her eyes peeled for a business opportunity promising enough to let her safely escape her hectic but lucrative career as a healthcare industry consultant. She found her opening in a surprising enterprise: bookselling. Kirschbraun opened the doors to City Lit Books in Logan Square in … Read more
– current selling price £550+ Collectors of early modernist literature are well aware of the rarest of Ezra Pound’s first experimental ‘ imagist ‘ poetry (Lustra, A Quinzaine For this Yule etc ). But this little pamphlet, a translation of an early work by the Belgium poet and artist Jean de Bosschere is so scarce that it doesn’t … Read more
THE INVASION OF THE PODS Bookride has long had a quarrel with those Books on Demand publishers, with good reason. A few years ago they were as mild irritation that got in the way of the ‘ real ‘ book on Abe. They could be annoying, but you tolerated them. Today the situation is very … Read more
