I recently snagged a book from our selection of advanced readers to take with me on my long journey to Iowa and back. Melanie was the first to spot it, in all honesty, but graciously allowed me to read it first. The cover has a fantastic Art Nouveau flare to it … The Truth About [...]
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This winter and spring have been rejuvenating in many ways, not the least of which is because I finally got the gumption to ask our dear customers what they thought of Ye Olde Bookworks, in all its crowded-shelved, uneven-floored, paper-based glory. Things are changing in consumer culture–and that doesn’t apply just to books–and we want [...]
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The English poet Simon Armitage read from his work this past week at the Cúirt International Festival of Literature in Galway. The American edition of Seeing Stars, the collection from which this poem is taken, will appear from Random House in August. Aviators They’d overbooked the plane. “At this moment in time,” announced the woman [...]
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I’ve just come from a small parking lot over on Nun’s Island here in Galway, where I was one of the audience of twelve at the 5:00 p.m. performance(s) of Neil Labute’s Autobahn, which takes in four parked cars. Each car contains a young man and a young woman, the actors, in the front seats, [...]
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American poet Thomas Lux reads on Friday afternoon at the Cuirt International Festival of Literature in Galway, Ireland. Here’s a good example of his work: Gorgeous Surfaces They are, the surfaces, gorgeous: a master pastry chef at work here, the dips and whorls, the wrist-twist squeezes of cream from the tube to the [...]
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The Cuirt International Festival of Literature begins this evening with a wine and canapés reception at the City Museum, followed by a program of readings by Dermot Healy and Paul Murray from their novels Long Time, No See and Skippy Dies at the Town Hall Theatre. Then, full-day programs will run from Wednesday through Sunday, [...]
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April is One City, One Book month in Dublin and this year’s book is the novel Ghost Light by Joseph O’Connor, author of Star of the Sea. Ghost Light, on Bookworks’ shelves now, is the moving, fictionalized story of Molly Allgood, who as a young girl was an actress in Dublin’s Abbey Theatre and the [...]
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April is National Poetry Month. I know that last year I posted a poem a day which I would attempt again this year but without Dick or Erin it would I think I’d end up struggling with it. However, if you sign up here you can get a poem-a-day emailed to you. Let’s be honest, [...]
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So, last March I ran into Lauren Oliver at the Book Expo. Love her love her love her, and I told her so… a lot if I recall. And she graciously guided me to the Harper Collins booth so I could get the advanced reader for her, at that time, to-be-released novel Delirium. I had [...]
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April is National Poetry Month. I know that last year I posted a poem a day, which I would attempt again this year but without Dick or Erin it would be a bit of a struggle. However, if you sign up here you can get a poem-a-day emailed to you. Let’s be honest, poets.org will [...]
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