Posts Tagged ‘books’
anachronistic and obsolete
old-time is not a crime talked to a couple of guys at the shop on Sunday, while the Saddle Cats held forth on the stage, zipping along the route felicitously preserved on the Bob Wills Tiffany transcriptions, kidding about the idea of a district in town zoned to support a gamut of anachronistic and obsolete…
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Hot tamales, and they’re red hot, yes, we got ’em for sale! Well, no we don’t, but we got books! Start thinking about Paris! Brand new Lonely Planet France guide just reached the shelf… come in and pick up a copy… get that new Portual guide while you’re at it. If you tell the guy…
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Speaking of Amazon… Must we? unless it be the river… But back here at home, that giant big box store on the internet continues to throw its weight around. On April 6, they threatened to pull their distribution center out of South Carolina if the state insists on making them collect and remit sales tax.…
Read MoreWhat Was Communism?
What Was Communism? We sure as hell ain’t sure… but they’re contemplating the question big time at Kolkata’s Seagull Books. (That’s Calcutta to you!) Specifically, they’re wondering why it’s so abruptly gone by the boards — and whether that implies the death of the associated ideals. Seven volumes in Seagull’s “What Was Communism” series examine…
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Books and Bookstores = Nostalgia? or the Future of Your Ever-Lovin’ Mind??? A reader of our website wondered if it was doing a disservice to one of the local shops we mightily admire to imply that they were “on the ropes” — by which we meant struggling to keep their balance and survive an economic…
Read MoreEvents this week – 3/22 to 3/28/11
Hrabal Rouser…Bop Stop… Voudoun Verite…a String Thing… 4 events, Thursday to Sunday Maybe you wouldn’t think it to look at his picture here, but it’s Bohumil Hrabal’s birthday at Bird & Beckett… On the third Thursday of each month at 7pm, we read from the works of favorite writers born in the month at hand……
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