Calling All North Dakotans

On Thursday, July 23, at 7:30pm, Jonathan Twingley will visit Magers & Quinn Booksellers to read from his North Dakota-based novel The Badlands Saloon.A one-of-a-kind, fully illustrated debut novel about a young man's restless and lifechanging summer spent in a small North Dakota tourist town, The Badlands Saloon is a loving meditation on that time … Continue reading Calling All North Dakotans

Slithering Sequels!

Quirk Books has announced its eagerly-anticipated follow-up to the smash hit mashup Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance -- Now With Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! The new book will also combine Jane Austen's original novel with Seth Grahame-Smith's monstrous additions. The new book is... wait for it... Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. … Continue reading Slithering Sequels!

何でもいい?!

It seems that even in his own country Haruki Murakami can be a bit puzzling. Japan's Mainichi Shimbun tackles the question What is the parallel world in Murakami's new novel '1Q84'?, and their answers aren't particularly illuminating. Still, until the book is available in English, this is all we anglophones have to go on.The whole … Continue reading 何でもいい?!