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That’s What She Said
What is a book? It’s a working hypothesis you use to get closer to things. —Christa Wolf, City of Angels
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The Weekly Urchin Recap
By Geo Ong This Urchin’s going on assignment, y’all. I leave tomorrow, and for ten days I will live in and explore the mystical city of Los Angeles. Yes, that one. Yeah, I know what you mean. Yeah, I...
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Summer’s Here with the Urchin Bookshelf
With each new season comes six new books on the Urchin horizon. Here are the latest reads added to the Urchin Bookshelf. Sarah’s books Letters of Ted Hughes Selected and edited by Christopher Reid I...
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Theory of Objects
By Geo Ong I read Stephanie LaCava’s An Extraordinary Theory of Objects the way I would probably regard someone’s cabinet of wonders. A lot of peeking and poking, going from one object to the next, and...
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Truman’s Gun
By Geo Ong Part A: The Handle Holcomb, Kan., Nov. 15 (UPI) — A wealthy wheat farmer, his wife and their two young children were found shot to death today in their home. They had been killed by shotgun...
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That’s What He Said
William Least Heat-Moon on travel literature: A field containing two-thousand significant or at least worthwhile books, a genre that has come to shape even more than the novel our notions of who we...
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Reading Ahead: Two Books in 2014
By Geo Ong One tremendous perk of being a bookseller is getting advanced copies of books before they are officially published and released to the general public. I picked up two books, both due out in...
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My Year in Reading, 2013
By Geo Ong Another year, another handful of wonderful books read. In 2013 I was lucky enough to read some greatly affecting books. Some have been on my to-read list for far too long and I’ve finally...
View ArticleNay Rather: The Independent Bookstore’s Re-emergence and the New Attitude It...
This year’s Winter Institute, an annual conference put together by the American Bookseller’s Association (ABA), was held in January in Seattle, Washington. Its purpose is to gather together independent...
View ArticleThe 33 1/3 Book Series
The 33 1/3 book series is dedicated to highlighting the personal, cultural, and historical impact of your favourite pop music albums. Each book in the series is devoted to a different album, written by...
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