Minneapolis' Fox 9 News was in the store yesterday, filming a "news" segment about the new book by wrestler-turned-governor Jesse Ventura, Don't Start the Revolution Without Me! There's a lot of footage of the store and our single copy of The Body's magnum opus. Careful observers will see that we have not placed a "Staff … Continue reading Ain’t Got Time to Read
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Truthy
In 1980, there appeared a most interesting memoir--Amazons: An Intimate Memoir by the First Woman Ever to Play in the National Hockey League. Ostensibly written by Cleo Birdwell, its author is in fact Don DeLillo, and its subject never existed. According to the article, "The Puck Stopped Here", published in BookForum, DeLillo's publisher at the … Continue reading Truthy
Up North
On April 8, Philip Pullman's semi-prequel to the His Dark Materials trilogy will be released. The book, entitled Once Upon a Time in the North, follows aeronaut Lee Scoresby's journey to Svalbard as a boy; he appears in the trilogy as a grown man. The Guardian has published an excerpt.--David E
Musings from Magers and Quinn 