A kind Facebook fan pointed out an excellent blog: Forgotten Bookmarks displays the weird and wonderful things you can find in a used book. The unidentified owner photographs not only the bookmark, picture, of other foundling, but also the book in which it was located. See all the entries at http://www.forgottenbookmarks.com, and visit http://www.facebook.com/magersandquinnbooksellers for … Continue reading Forgotten Bookmarks
Author: Anders
Gained in Translation
The Star Tribune recently reviewed Stone Upon Stone, an epic novel of life in Poland during and after the Second World War, by Wieslaw Mysliwski. They drew particular attention to the book's verbal artistry: "The life he leads is told in a blast of sentences. Sometimes a character's dialogue goes on and on without paragraph … Continue reading Gained in Translation
Snooki Gets Snarked
I'm sure I don't have to tell you that A Shore Thing was released into the world yesterday. The novel by The Jersey Shore's Nicole Polizzi--aka Snooki--promises "hot guidos, cool clubs, fried Oreos, and lots of tequila." But does it deliver?Literary mavens can get a sneak preview: the esteemed book journal that is the New … Continue reading Snooki Gets Snarked
Musings from Magers and Quinn 