If You Can’t Get to Hibbing…

Minnesota Public Radio spoke to Toby Thompson. Thompson will be in our store this coming Sunday, May 25, at 5:00pm to discuss his book Postively Main Street: Bob Dylan's Minnesota. Thompson's book was one of the first Dylan biographies, and has just been reissued with a new preface by the author.--David E

Here Come the Haters

It begins.The dependably nasty gawker.com is out with its rundown on factual errors in James Frey's novel Bright, Shiny Morning. For example, ""In 1873, the city's first newspaper, the Los Angeles Daily Herald, opens." — Can't be true because there were two other newspapers publishing in the 1850s."--David E

Guilty?

Max Ross, in The Rake's Cracking Spines column, has posted a funny column about the pros and cons of Barnes and Noble. Personally, I think he's a little too charitable to the mega-chain, but what really caught my eye was this portion: "You can sit in a Barnes & Noble for as long as you … Continue reading Guilty?