Joe Keenan has one this year's Thurber Prize for American Humor. I'll admit I hadn't heard of the Thurber Prize until now, but even so I'm going to take the opportunity to tell you the Joe Keenan's books are smart and light and funny and really worth a read.We don't have his prize-winning book My … Continue reading Funny Stuff
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Now with Eight More Monkeys
Last Christmas, I tried to sell everyone who came in the store a copy of Monkey Portraits, Jill Greenberg's collection of the prettiest monkeys you're gonna see. And it broke my heart when we ran out of books and couldn't get more from the publisher.Now the paperback edition is out. It's in stock, and what's … Continue reading Now with Eight More Monkeys
Taxi!
Like most of you, I've been hearing a lot about Melissa Plaut's book Hack: How I Stopped Worrying About What to Do With My Life and Started Driving a Yellow Cab lately. Her memoir is getting lots of play (for example, this excerpt/reading at NPR.)But I hadn't realized that Plaut's book stems from the blog … Continue reading Taxi!
Musings from Magers and Quinn 