tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78590020236829741162024-03-05T16:04:18.392-06:00Flyleaf BooksAn Independent Bookstore in Chapel Hill, NCUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger139125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7859002023682974116.post-87105051487781320762013-11-03T15:07:00.002-06:002013-11-03T15:07:58.802-06:00Moving on to Greener (Virtual) Pastures<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Just a short n<span style="font-size: small;">ote to let our loyal readers kn<span style="font-size: small;">ow that <span style="font-size: small;">the Flyleaf Blog <span style="font-size: small;">has effectively migrated <span style="font-size: small;">to Tumbl<span style="font-size: small;">r: <a href="http://flyleafbooks.tumblr.com/">http://flyleafbooks.tumblr.com/</a>. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>We may still post on this site occasionally, but if you're looking for witty book-related musings provided by myself and our other staff contributors, Tumblr is now your best bet. Hankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09624726383189573857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7859002023682974116.post-76814238445358426862013-10-19T18:45:00.000-05:002013-10-19T18:45:54.048-05:00Breaking News: Reading Might Be Good for You!<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><strong>ISBN-10:</strong> 0062065254</span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><strong>ISBN-13:</strong> 9780062065254 </span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><strong>Published:</strong> Harper Perennial, <span class="date-display-single">05/01/2013</span> </span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><strong>Pages:</strong> 336 </span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><strong>Language:</strong> English </span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><strong>Ingram Discount Code:</strong> REG </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Flyleaf customers clued me in to<a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/i-know-how-youre-feeling-i-read-chekhov/" target="_blank"> a recent study </a>written up in The New York Times that found that "after reading literary fiction, as opposed to popular fiction or serious
nonfiction, people performed better on tests measuring empathy, social
perception and emotional intelligence — skills that come in especially
handy when you are trying to read someone’s body language or gauge what
they might be thinking." Now, it's human nature to try to justify one's hobbies-- hence my somewhat facetious title to this entry-- but, if true, these findings would have fascinating implications. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The value of reading in intellectual development is both common sense and scientifically proven fact-- however, this study's focus on "emotional intelligence" sets it apart. As the New York Times put it, the findings</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"suggested a direct effect — quantifiable by measuring how many right
and wrong answers people got on the tests — from reading literature for
only a few minutes" and "</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">experts said the results implied that people could be primed for social
skills like empathy, just as watching a clip from a sad movie can make
one feel more emotional." Furthermore, by comparing the effects of different genres of fiction and nonfiction separately, the study suggests that certain kinds of books might be more valuable in producing empathy than others, possibly having implications for school curriculums: "The study’s authors and other academic psychologists said such findings
should be considered by educators designing curriculums, particularly
the Common Core standards adopted by most states, which assign students
more nonfiction."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I buy most of this--to an extent. In one of my favorite books, An Anatomy of Melancholy, frequent mention is made of harsh tyrants who could only be moved by a play or a poem (there's a particular example the author references, I think from Greek tragedy, which is escaping me at the moment). The idea that art is sometimes more effective at creating empathy than real life is one more sad irony we've come to accept. It doesn't seem like much of a stretch to suggest that one could take emotional lessons learned from a master such as Alice Munro--<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/11/books/alice-munro-wins-nobel-prize-in-literature.html" target="_blank">she won that Nobel Prize for a reason, people</a>-- and apply them to real life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Naturally, I have my doubts about the methodology of the study and blah blah blah-- for now, it's just nice to think about. Ultimately, I share Louis Erdrich's opinion, as expressed in a quote that concludes the article: </span>“<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Writers are often lonely obsessives, especially the literary ones. It’s
nice to be told what we write is of social value,” she said. “However, I
would still write even if novels were useless.”</span>Hankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09624726383189573857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7859002023682974116.post-66060249805701450722013-10-15T10:47:00.000-05:002013-10-15T10:47:43.253-05:00The Rashomon Effect<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgndlHKckoMrqt74u0aGK_4KZl64S6RIn_0RltRYFxrzfPymDNHBgj4HYxIjQVhARHXBlajeHqbLVAUY78YlpxxfIItUDXKBmZxEpPwMjmOKpedtocb1y046ZrFslAx3wqMI2YaevCa7Vg/s1600/maidsversion.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgndlHKckoMrqt74u0aGK_4KZl64S6RIn_0RltRYFxrzfPymDNHBgj4HYxIjQVhARHXBlajeHqbLVAUY78YlpxxfIItUDXKBmZxEpPwMjmOKpedtocb1y046ZrFslAx3wqMI2YaevCa7Vg/s1600/maidsversion.JPG" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><strong>ISBN-10:</strong> 0316205850</span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><strong>ISBN-13:</strong> 9780316205856 </span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><strong>Published:</strong> Little, Brown and Company, 09/03/2013 </span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><strong>Pages:</strong> 176 </span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><strong>Language:</strong> English </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Daniel Woodrell is probably best known for his last novel, <a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9780316066419" target="_blank">Winter's Bone</a>, published in 2006 and adapted into an excellent movie starring Jennifer Lawrence.</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">That novel earned him a richly deserved reputation as a master of Appalachian-noir and Faulknerian prose, an odd but highly effective mix of genre trappings and lit-fic miserablism. His newest book, <a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9780316205856" target="_blank">The Maid's Version</a>, is no more cheery, but no less beautiful than his previous work. Besides the flecks of bone-dry wit and black humor sprinkled throughout, The Maid's Version is a spare, brutal book-- in other words, right up my alley. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Rashomon comparison hinted at in the title is a useful way to consider Woodrell's novel. Like Akira Kurosawa's landmark film, The Maid's Version concerns a central tragedy-- in this case, a dance hall fire-- and how it was perceived by a number of different witnesses. Naturally, each witnesses' point of view is skewed by the complicated web of prejudices and associations that spreads naturally in any small town. The rumor and gossip mills work overtime to produce contradicting theories about the perpetrators, sparking a great deal of collateral damage and undeserved witch hunts. However, unlike in Rashomon, there does seem to be a "true" version of the events, which we gradually close in on as the novel progresses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Maid's Version is vastly ambitious in its complicated, inter-generational structure and thematically-laden, gorgeous prose. It's to Woodrell's great credit that he pulls it all off without wasting a single sentence-- The Maid's Version is barely longer than a novella. Really, you can't give enough credit to his writing. For example, Woodrell is able to slip in and out of various voices without disrupting the flow of the story. I was frequently reminded of Faulkner's famous short story "A Rose for Emily," in which he is able to illuminate the individual gossiping people</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">of his made-up small town as well as the group-think, the collective "we" and "they" that result</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">from such a claustrophobic society. Take this passage from Faulkner's story:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"So the next day we all said, 'She will kill herself'; and we
said it would be the best thing. When she had first begun
to be seen with Homer Barron, we had said, 'She will marry
him.' Then we said, 'She will persuade him yet,' because
Homer himself had remarked--he liked men, and it was
known that he drank with the younger men in the Elks'
Club--that he was not a marrying man. Later we said, 'Poor Emily' behind the jalousies as they passed on Sunday
afternoon in the glittering buggy, Miss Emily with her head
high and Homer Barron with his hat cocked and a cigar in
his teeth, reins and whip in a yellow glove."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Compare it to this passage from The Maid's Version:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"And there were the accusations and denunciations also delivered in clusters surrounding the anniversary date: Chuck always has liked fire too much to be left alone anyplace with matches but might have been on that day,-- I don't got any way to know for a fact, I was at Jam Up Cave, myself, that night, but his eyes sure get wide seeing flames. Or: She and him had been stealing from the factory payroll, I'm pretty sure of that, since they had patent-leather shoes a little too rich and shiny for East Side, don't you know, and ate hunks of beef meat when we had greens and fatback, so they likely did the bombing to throw attention away from their own wrongs until they could leave for California with the loot, which they did within a week or so. Or: My husband has been odd since maybe a week before then..."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And so on. Woodrell's style is more fluid, almost experimental or stream-of-consciousness in a way that recalls As I Lay Dying or even Mrs. Dalloway. Trying to identify all of Woodrell's potential influences is cat-nip for an English major like me, but for anyone simply looking for a great book, I couldn't recommend The Maid's Version more highly. The Maid's Version is simultaneously steeped in the past and engagingly post-modern (just like Rashomon!) without burying emotional depth beneath its technical sophistication. And, unlike me, apparently, Woodrell is committed to the ideal held in highest esteem by busy readers with an enormous stack of books threatening to crush their bedside table-- brevity. </span>Hankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09624726383189573857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7859002023682974116.post-35435842495906724792013-10-09T16:52:00.000-05:002013-10-09T16:52:15.422-05:00For the Comedy Nerd in Your Life: An Imagined Conversation, in One Part<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>ISBN-10:</b> 1455526304</span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>ISBN-13:</b> 9781455526307 </span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Published:</b> Grand Central Publishing, 09/10/2013 </span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Pages:</b> 288 </span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Language:</b> English </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Person A: "Comedy nerd"? Can such a person even exist? What is this tomfoolery?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Person B: Of course! Where have you been, my straw-man interrogator?</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Recently, the popularity of social media, comedy podcasts such as WTF with Marc Maron,</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">and alternative comics such as Louis CK, Tig Notaro, and Maria Bamford has</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">had more people obsessing over comedy than ever before. The comedy nerd is ascendant!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Person A: Okay,</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">okay. Ease up on the exclamation marks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Person B: Sorry... I get excited. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Person A: So what's this book thingy all about?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Person B: Oh, yeah. Well, the title kind of says it all: </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9781455526307" target="_blank">Hollywood Said No!: Orphaned Film Scripts, Bastard Scenes, and Abandoned Darlings from the Creators of Mr. Show</a>. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Person A: Gee whiz, that's a mouthful! What's Mr. Show?</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Person B: It was a brilliant and highly influential sketch comedy program on HBO in the nineties. If you've ever seen Monty Python's Flying Circus, Mr. Show is a clear descendant. Co-creators and co-stars David Cross and Bob Odenkirk (now of Better Call Saul! fame) gleefully mixed the high concept and the low, sending up American culture with biting satire while also making room for spectacular amounts of silliness.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Person A: Sounds neat, but why would I want to read a bunch of passed-over film scripts?</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Person B: Besides being gut-bustingly hysterical, the film scripts and attendant notes give new insight into the creative process and how it rubs up against the out-of-touch Hollywood establishment. If you're wondering why the blockbuster landscape has been so loud and samey of late, this book might provide a few clues. Plus, there are some nice extras like interviews, storyboards, illustrations, and a few abandoned sketches. For comedy nerds, it's a must-have.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Person A: What about us Average Joes?</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Person B: Mr. Show does have a niche, counter-culture sensibility that will not appeal to everyone equally. Still, funny is funny, and tautologies are tautologies. Just buy it. </span></span></span>Hankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09624726383189573857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7859002023682974116.post-44779536297800043382013-10-07T12:09:00.001-05:002013-10-07T12:09:31.682-05:00Variations on a Theme: Three Shiny Books.<div class="post_body">
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Three shiny books, because that seemed like enough to warrant
a picstitch! Or, at the very least, they’re a nice shiny tonic to ward
off this dreary, rainy day.<br />
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Featured: Marisha Pessl’s <a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9781400067886" target="_blank">Night Film</a>, Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s <a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9780811219679" target="_blank">Seiobo There Below</a>, and Tao Lin’s <a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9780307950178" target="_blank">Taipei</a>.<br />
While we’re on the subject of these beautiful books, it seems worth
mentioning that there’s been a lot of speculation about how print books
will fare in a world of internet titans. Robin Sloan did a reading here
last week, and one of the most interesting facets of his talk was his
discussion of ebooks’ role in making print books better: namely, that
designers and marketing professionals will have to level up when it
comes to designing covetable physical objects. In all honesty, that’s a
trend we’re ok with, because it produces things like these volumes.
There’s something tactile and special about a book with shiny,
glittering font or, in Sloan’s case, the glow-in-the-dark books on <a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9781250037756" target="_blank">Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore</a>'s cover. Hoping this prophecy keeps book in print, and bookstores in business.<br />
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7859002023682974116.post-59637320614644519572013-10-05T11:38:00.000-05:002013-10-05T11:38:20.434-05:00A Little Bit Late (Sorry!)<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><strong>ISBN-10:</strong> 0765334224<br />
<strong>ISBN-13:</strong> 9780765334220 <br />
<strong>Published:</strong> Tor Books, 09/24/2013 <br />
<strong>Pages:</strong> 304 <br />
<strong>Language:</strong> English</span> </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I hate to miss an interesting genre author when he or she comes by Flyleaf, but I was unfortunately waylaid by illness when Steven Brust visited to promote <a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9780765334220" target="_blank">The Incrementalists</a>, a fantasy (in a loose sense) novel he co-wrote with Skyler White (who is, I'm sure, very tired of the Breaking Bad jokes). I was glad to hear the event went swimmingly even without my august presence or my prized official endorsement here on the blog. Still, I thought it would be a shame not to devote a little internet space to a fun and fascinating book. The Incrementalists concerns a kind of secret society that has been operating behind the scenes since the beginning of mankind, whose purpose is to cautiously (with some major exceptions) nudge humanity in the right directions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Unlike most secret orders found in books or other media, the Incrementalists stay true to their name by trying to make the world a little better at a time-- the relatively narrow focus of their ambitions is actually one of the most interesting parts of the book's premise. Another interesting aspect: the Incrementalists have no real hierarchy, and opinions as to what constitutes "better" vary widely among the group. This lends an essential philosophical underpinning to the novel, which quickly becomes embroiled in heady arguments and brain-splitting flights of fancy (there's a whole 'nother thing involving a garden made out of memories that I can't even get into). Somehow, this didacticism avoids becoming pretentious or irritating-- no mean feat, trust me. If you're looking for a thrill-ride through a fantastical Las Vegas, you won't find it here. The Incrementalists is much more concerned with ideas than car chases, and if you approach the novel as thoughtfully as it is constructed, the result is much more intriguing. Don't check your brain at the door, in other words, but do buy this book.</span>Hankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09624726383189573857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7859002023682974116.post-56340856971015466762013-10-03T15:03:00.005-05:002013-10-03T15:03:56.710-05:00New developments in the digital world of Flyleaf Books<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All of this internet work was almost as fun as playing with a little kitten, but not quite as entertaining as observing a kitten with expert computer skills. </td></tr>
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Chalk it up to reading too much <a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9781250037756">Mr. Penumbra</a>, but lately, I've had an urge to settle on our own little piece of internet territory. Like the great pioneers before me, I have spent long and arduous days journeying an unknown land, developing new areas so that my predecessors can reap the rewards (...actually, it was super easy).<br />
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If you'd like to validate the hours/minutes that have gone into retweeting, Instagramming, Tumblring, and the like, check out the following links, and add them to your bookmarks or what have you:<br />
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<li><a href="http://flyleafbooks.tumblr.com/">Tumblr</a>: Original content, plus lots of cool things culled from around the web.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.pinterest.com/">Pinterest</a>: Quick & to-the-point posts about things we like and what we're reading.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Flyleaf-Books/124687818122">Facebook</a>: The original internet presence, in which we divulge just about everything.</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/FlyleafBook">Twitter</a>: Concision (which is hard, for booksellers & writers).</li>
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That does it for today. Thanks for helping us spread the word -- or words, as the case may be.</div>
Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7859002023682974116.post-60920361236452147152013-10-01T15:49:00.002-05:002013-10-01T15:49:40.627-05:00Exchanging Words with: Nathan Kotecki<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>In a new series (er, post?), called Exchanging Words With..., I'll be chatting up some of our area's authors. This week, Nathan Kotecki, whose book <a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9780547731148">Pull Down The Night</a> comes out next Tuesday, was kind enough to let me pester him with topics both relevant and absurd. A reader of classic literature and a writer of young adult novels that pack a decidedly cultural punch, Kotecki is clearly a smart cookie. Below, read up on our (electronic) conversation, and start picking out your best Goth attire now -- this book launch won't be your typical quiet, mild-mannered bookstore fare, and rumor has it there's a pretty fantastic playlist in the works.</i><br /><br /><b>Flyleaf:</b> So you've been through this publishing-a-book gauntlet before, which puts you in a unique position. What's been different about your experience this time around, if anything?<br /><br /><b>Nathan Kotecki:</b> If anything, I still feel very new to this - the paperback of <i><a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/%5Bmodel%5D-81">The Suburban Strange</a></i> just came out less than a month ago, and I've come to realize that the life of this series may well depend as much if not more on the second book as the first - will the series gain momentum? Going through the process for the second book, I was better able to anticipate the flow, from editing and cover design through advance reading copies and early publicity to planning a release and a promotional schedule. But as an author - someone who wants to make a career of writing books - I feel as though I've barely taken off my coat and found a seat at the table.<br /> <br /><b>FL:</b> In <i>The Suburban Strange</i>, we followed Celia, but this time around, you've centered the story on Bruno. What prompted that decision, and how did it change the story itself? Did that create any challenges as far as writing went, or was it easier for you?<br /><br /><b>NK:</b> I love Celia, but the moment I considered the series potential of <i>The Suburban Strange</i>, it was clear to me that I didn't want to follow her - I've made jokes about "The Suburban Strange: The College Years," which is what would have happened if I had. Rather, this series is about its silent character: the Suburban High School, the epicenter of this supernatural conflict, of which I've just scratched the surface. So, how to structure the series so no human character got too large? I decided that each book would take place in the subsequent school year, but with a kaleidescopic shift in which all the characters who haven't graduated (or died) are retained, but a new character arrives to drive the story forward with a new coming-of-age story that also advances the series arc. I am very satisfied with how that decision has panned out with Bruno (and Celia) and Pull Down The Night, and I've met some brilliant characters who are waiting in the wings for books three and four. I can't say this structure created challenges - if anything, it breathes new life into the series with each book, from my perspective.<br /> <br /><b>FL:</b> As opposed to a lot of YA series (which stick to some popular tropes -- vampires, werewolves, vampire-werewolves-in-love), the Suburban Strange books are defiantly different. Were you worried at all when you set out to write something so centered in Goth culture & music? How have readers responded to this element of your work? Finally, do you think there's a demand for more YA books that fall somewhere off the typical path?<br /><br /><b>NK:</b> It's a tough call, isn't it? I wanted to do something that felt distinctive and at least a little original, and that carries the risk of not connecting with readers. But I would rather stake my claim for the story I'm interested in telling, than look for trends to follow. I feel strongly that at the core, authors have to write the story they need to tell, and the commercial considerations come later - or the writing is going to be notably lacking in passion. Goth culture and music are part of my composition, particularly their "outsider" point of view and their aesthetic vantage point. I don't expect all the books I write will be so infused with this genre (in fact the next project I'm writing has no traces of it), but it's incredibly gratifying to work the genre into the Suburban Strange series. Of course there are readers who don't respond to that, and I do try to keep those elements at a reasonable proportion so readers can gloss over them if they desire. But I've gotten some great messages from goth kids who can't believe their music is right there in the books, and from kids who checked out some of the music for the first time and enjoyed it. That makes me very happy.<br /><br />Is there a demand for YA books that fall somewhere off the typical path? I'm tempted to turn that question around and say only that if a book is a success, and it introduces some sort of new path in YA, then maybe it created that demand. I believe all great books are in some way "strange" - they make us look at the world differently, or hold us at bay, forcing us to conform to their rules. That might be an excessively literary answer, but think of how many great YA books you've read that changed the rules in some way. If they didn't, you're just reading another version of a book you already know.<br /> <br /><b>FL:</b> What's your writing schedule like? How do you fit in writing with your day-to-day work, and is that schedule regimented?<br /><br /><b>NK:</b> My writing schedule really varies. As an author fortunate enough to be getting things published, there's a lot of project management required: you're simultaneously promoting the book that's out, preparing the book that's going to come out, and working on the next book you hope to get into the pipeline for publication. The balance shifts from week to week. There was a lull this summer before the paperback and hardcover releases this fall, and I made a lot of progress with my next project. These next few months are going to emphasize publicity a lot more. But I do get cranky if I go through a day without scribbling at least a little bit.<br /> <br /><b>FL:</b> Is there anything (or about a billion things) you've learned during the publishing process that you didn't know before you'd written your first book? What are some of the major lessons that you've learned, and what would you impart on folks undertaking a writing project?<br /><br /><b>NK:</b> Wow, there's so much. But I'm always hesitant to universalize my experience - agents operate differently, editors operate differently, publishing houses operate differently, and projects are handled differently. I can say this: I believe strongly in the core concept of traditional publishing, in which an editor shepherds a project through a refinement process that makes it stronger and more polished than it would have been otherwise. I suppose there are any number of valid criticisms that can be made of traditional publishing, but the bottom line is that I have stronger books going onto shelves because the traditional route has served me very well. I won't discount other routes; the traditional route is the only one I know.<br /><br /><div>
To folks undertaking a writing project: First, follow your passion and don't give a single thought to publishing or the market until you have satisfied your bliss as a writer. When you are finished with that phase and can step back and stop viewing your project as your child or your lover, that is the time to consider its commercial potential. Set your expectations low, so they can be easily exceeded: before you query a single agent, you must be at peace with the possibility that no one may take interest in your project. If you get an agent, you must be at peace with the possibility that she may not be able to sell your project. When your agent (and hopefully, your editor) ask for changes, remember that they are professionals whose income is directly tied to the strength of your work. Of course there are lines you will not cross, but the vast majority (if not all) of the suggested changes will not be that radical - I promise. The better you get at separating yourself from your work - taking criticism of your work and not hearing it as criticism of you - the better off you'll be, and the better you'll do in publishing. (That is just me rambling - I'm sure I'll think of other great advice in ten minutes...)<br /> <br /><i>Rapid-fire round! 140 characters or less:</i><br /> <br /><b>FL:</b> From whom would you rather take an art class, and why: Bob Ross or Claude Monet?<br /><br /><b>NK:</b> Claude Monet - he might not be as chummy as Bob, but he changed the way the world sees, and that's an astonishing thing.<br /> <br /><b>FL:</b> What's the scariest book you've ever read, or the scariest villain you've found in literature?<br /><br /><b>NK: </b>William Peter Blatty's <i><a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9780062094360">The Exorcist</a></i> - scared the honk out of me. Scariest villain... Maybe O'Brien in Orwell's <i><a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9780451524935">1984</a></i>.<br /> <br /><b>FL:</b> Favorite spot to go on vacation (and what book you would pack next time you go):<br /><br /><b>NK:</b> I'm always torn between Paris and Rome, but I'd give Paris the edge. I think I'll go against trend and take Virginia Woolf's <i>Orlando</i>.<br /> <br /><b>FL:</b> You found out you got nominated for a Pulitzer! How would you celebrate? <br /><br /><b>NK:</b> My goodness - I'd settle for a Printz! :) A brut rose and a reception at Blue Hill in NYC - my favorite restaurant.<br /> <br /><b>FL:</b> If <i>Pull Down The Night</i> was a mixed drink (alcoholic or otherwise), what would it be?<br /><br /><b>NK:</b> Since it's a YA, I'll go non-alcoholic: cranberry tea (Liz serves it at First Night in <i>The Suburban Strange</i>).<br /> <br /><b>FL:</b> Who would play the major characters in the movie version of your books?<br /><br /><b>NK:</b> So hard! Celia: Nina Dobrev at fifteen. Cassandra: Christina Hendricks or Candis Cayne. Mr. Sumeletso: BD Wong in his twenties.<br /> <br /><b>FL:</b> Which bands or artists, new or old, would be featured on the movie soundtrack?<br /><br /><b>NK:</b> Chameleons, Cocteau Twins, Book of Love, Killing Joke, Shriekback, Faith & The Muse - all name-checked in <i>The Suburban Strange</i>.<br /> <br /><b>FL:</b> What is the purpose of literature & writing: to entertain or to teach, or both?<br /><br /><b>NK:</b> Absolutely both - but I'd go a step further: to help us understand ourselves and the world around us.<br /> <br /><b>FL:</b> If your book series could receive a corporate sponsorship from a big famous company (think Nike or Coca-Cola), who would you choose?<br /><br /><b>NK:</b> I'd go with Bottega Veneta - I know, not so big/famous, but anything that increases my chances of wearing their clothes...<br /> <br /><b>FL:</b> Think about the best mixtape you've ever gotten: what made it so great?<br /><br /><b>NK:</b> I've received some epic mixtapes in my life, but the common denominator is curation: the gifter really made a beautiful collection.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><strong>ISBN-10:</strong> 087140379X</span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><strong>ISBN-13:</strong> 9780871403797 </span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><strong>Published:</strong> Liveright Publishing Corporation, 09/01/2013 </span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><strong>Pages:</strong> 352 </span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><strong>Language:</strong> English </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Local author Allan Gurganus was on WUNC's The State of Things last Wednesday to discuss his new book, <a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9780871403797" target="_blank">Local Souls</a>. Naturally, I recommend <a href="http://wunc.org/post/allan-gurganus-brings-his-fictional-town-21st-century" target="_blank">giving the interview a listen</a>, but I've also plucked out a few choice quotations from Mr. Gurganus for your perusal</span>: <br />
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means loving them the way we love our loved ones, when they make terrible
mistakes, when our kids get involved with drugs and the wrong crowd, when the
man that we’ve loved for fifty years comes in and says ‘my secretary's attractive,
you’re not, I’m out of here.’ Love doesn’t just stop and start, it continues.
One of the great lessons, I think, in literature, is how many varieties of it
there really are—how many varieties of erotic expression there really are. This
is a book full of people who have sexual loves, including young, young kids and
old, old people and that plays to what I think is central to understanding
human beings. Walt Whitman says ‘We are unerringly lost without the sexual
texture of things'…I’ve tried to apply that to my own characters."</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span><br />
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Hankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09624726383189573857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7859002023682974116.post-10552165708949808482013-09-26T17:59:00.001-05:002013-09-26T17:59:53.162-05:00A Glow-in-the-Dark Postscript<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I already gave my sales pitch on <a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9781250037756" target="_blank">Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore</a>, but new information has come to...light-- Mr. Penumbra glows in the dark! (The book, that is.) <a href="http://www.robinsloan.com/note/what-happens-in-the-dark/" target="_blank"> Here</a> is an interesting blog entry by Robin Sloan, the author, on the book's design and its reception. In fact, Sloan's blog is pretty all-around excellent: <a href="http://www.robinsloan.com/note/further-reading-for-penumbra-fans/" target="_blank">here</a>, he recommends logical next steps for readers who enjoyed Penumbra. For the impatient (or all of you tl;dr types) he recommends:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9780143124191" target="_blank">A Working Theory of Love</a> by Scott Hutchins</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9781250002488" target="_blank">Close to the Machine</a> by Ellen Ullman</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9780300178210" target="_blank">The Book in the Renaissance</a> by Andrew Pettegree</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9781400096237" target="_blank">The Information</a> by James Gleick </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Furthermore, I can also reveal that Sloan and his publishers will be gifting event attendees with free copies of Ajax Penumbra 1969, previously published as an e-book prequel to Mr. Penumbra. For fellow Luddites, it's great to have a print copy (especially a free one!) so come on down to Flyleaf <a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/event/robin-sloan-discusses-his-novel-mr-penumbras-24-hour-bookstore-paperback-release" target="_blank">tomorrow night</a> and get a nice bonus.</span>Hankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09624726383189573857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7859002023682974116.post-24500238017616955982013-09-24T19:47:00.000-05:002013-09-24T19:47:37.184-05:00Good, Geeky Fun<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><strong>ISBN-10:</strong> 1250037751<br />
<strong>ISBN-13:</strong> 9781250037756 <br />
<strong>Published:</strong> Picador, 09/24/2013 <br />
<strong>Pages:</strong> 304 <br />
<strong>Language:</strong> English </span> </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Some might say that a recommendation of a book about bookstores, booksellers, and the intersection between new technology (example: computers) and old technology (example: books) written by a bookseller on his bookstore's blog</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">would be, well, a little weird. At the very least, it would make for a confusing introductory sentence. Admittedly, <a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9781250037756" target="_blank">Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore</a> is so far up my alley</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">that it's practically sitting on my bed, but that doesn't mean it's any less awesome, or that you should be any less excited for the <a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/event/robin-sloan-discusses-his-novel-mr-penumbras-24-hour-bookstore-paperback-release" target="_blank">author event this Friday</a>.</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">You don't have to take my word for it, glowing reviews have been practically raining down on Robin Sloan's spectacularly fun debut (now out in paperback). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Summing up the novel or even assigning it to a genre seems like an insurmountable task. For now, I'll say that it concerns Clay Jannon, an unemployed web designer who takes a job at an eccentric bookstore on a whim. The word "eccentric" is, of course, pitifully inadequate to convey the wonderful weirdness this bookstore contains and leads to, but unraveling the mystery yourself is half the fun. Sloan explores how literature and technology shape us even as they shape each other in an intricate dance that leads to grand divisions between hoary traditionalists and baby-faced wanna-be cyborgs. Most of us exist somewhere in the middle, trying to fuse the best of both worlds into something workable and satisfying. Where many try, Sloan has succeeded, and his empathy towards both ends of the ideological spectrum is charming and commendable. For example, here we have one of Sloan's tech-head characters (and romantic interest of Clay) enthusing about the future of human development:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"'Personally, I think the big change is going to to be our brains,' Kat says, tapping just above her ear, which is pink and cute. 'I think we're going to find different ways to think, thanks to computers. You expect me to say that'--yes--'but it's happened before. It's not like we have the same brains as people a thousand years ago.'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Wait: 'Yes we do."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">'We have the same hardware, but not the same software. Did you know that the concept of privacy is, like, totally recent? And so is the idea of romance, of course.'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Yes, as a matter of fact, I think the idea of romance just occurred to me last night. (I don't say that out loud.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">'Each big idea like that is an operating system upgrade,' she says, smiling. Comfortable territory. 'Writers are responsible for some of it. They say Shakespeare invented the internal monologue.'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Oh, I am very familiar with the internal monologue.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">'But I think the writers had their turn,' she says, 'and now it's programmers who get to upgrade the human operating system.'"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Sloan's novel is full of such humane, funny, and eminently thoughtful exchanges. It's like the funnest book of philosophy you could ever read, but better than that sounds. Ask the author your own questions about the Singularity or the future of printed media on Friday (my armchair prediction: books will continue to be awesome).</span>Hankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09624726383189573857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7859002023682974116.post-1682673582946557812013-09-19T19:18:00.000-05:002013-09-19T19:18:08.436-05:00Told You So<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>ISBN-10:</b> 0307278972</span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>ISBN-13:</b> 9780307278975 </span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Published:</b> Vintage, 11/05/2013 </span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Pages:</b> 256 </span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Language:</b> English </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hey, <a href="http://flyleafbooks-chapelhill.blogspot.com/2013/07/twilights-last-gleaning.html" target="_blank">remember when I said</a> Jim Crace's newest book <a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9780307278975" target="_blank">Harvest</a> was really, really good? Well, it turns out <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/sep/10/man-booker-prize-shortlist-2013-crace-catton" target="_blank">some pretty influential people across the pond agree</a>. Harvest has been shortlisted, along with five other impressively diverse novels, for the 2013 Man Booker Prize and Crace's masterpiece is the odds-on favorite. Here's the full list:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9780316230810" target="_blank">We Need New Names </a>by NoViolet Bulawayo </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9780316074315" target="_blank">The Luminaries</a> by Eleanor Catton </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Harvest by Jim Crace </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9780307265746" target="_blank">The Lowland</a> by Jhumpa Lahiri</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9780670026630" target="_blank">A Tale for the Time Being</a> by Ruth Ozeki </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9781451688382" target="_blank">The Testament of Mary </a>by Colm Tóibín </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Unfortunately, I've only had a chance to read Harvest, but I'm looking forward to working my way through the rest. For my money, the Booker is one of the best taste-makers out there in terms of literary awards, and the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2013/sep/12/man-booker-shortlist-2013-decade" target="_blank">case has been made by at least one writer at the Guardian</a> that this year's picks are a bumper crop. It's certainly true that the judges have taken great advantage of the fact that the Booker is a Commonwealth prize rather than an exclusively Irish and British award.</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Here, Sarah Churchwell details the diversity present in the Man Booker's selections this year:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"It registers not only a multicultural world, but its migratory visions:
an Irish writer's meditation on an ancient Middle Eastern myth; a
Japanese-Canadian writer's linking of kamikaze pilots and 9/11 suicide
bombers; the mingling in 19th-century New Zealand of Maori, Scottish,
American, Irish and Chinese, drawn by the hope and greed that drives all
frontier tales; a Calcutta family wrestling with diasporic American
life and ghosts of the old world; a dark tale apparently set in Merrie
Olde England, yet concerning deracination and exile; and a girl who
leaves a shantytown in Zimbabwe for the false hope of the American Dream
in Detroit."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Sounds pretty darn appealing to me. Enjoy the good will while it lasts, the news that American authors will become eligible for the prize in 2014 has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2013/sep/18/booker-prize-us-writers-end" target="_blank">elicited a range of responses</a>, from pessimism to apocalyptic pessimism. If it's all downhill from here-- and I am by no means convinced that will be the case-- then at least the Booker's going out with a bang (if you consider a novel about the enclosure movement in 17th Century England to be a "bang," which I most certainly do). Buy Harvest (the paperback is coming out in about a month) before it wins the Man Booker and lord your astounding foresight and lit-cred over your friends (if they're anything like mine, they won't care). </span>Hankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09624726383189573857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7859002023682974116.post-64773395182655157992013-09-15T13:31:00.000-05:002013-09-15T13:31:04.342-05:00Compassionate Medicine<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><strong>ISBN-10:</strong> 1594203938<br />
<strong>ISBN-13:</strong> 9781594203930 <br />
<strong>Published:</strong> Penguin Press HC, The, 08/01/2013 <br />
<strong>Pages:</strong> 256 <br />
<strong>Language:</strong> English</span> </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Well into the 18th Century, Bethlem Royal Hospital in London was partially funded by visitors who paid to gawk at the mentally ill inmates living there in unconscionable conditions.</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Today, mental healthcare is thankfully much-improved, but remains a controversial, difficult field. Christine Montross capably illustrates the various medical and moral quandaries encountered during her career as a mental healthcare professional in her new book <a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9781594203930" target="_blank">Falling Into the Fire: A Psychiatrist's Encounters with the Mind in Crisis</a>. Not coincidentally, Montross will be visiting Flyleaf Books<a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/event/christine-montross-discusses-her-memoir-falling-fire-psychiatrists-encounters-mind-crisis-0" target="_blank"> tomorrow at 7:00 pm to discuss her book</a>-- 10% of the proceeds will be going to the N.C. Children's Hospital.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Falling Into the Fire loosely falls under the genre of memoir but-- while it does contain autobiographical details and a healthy dose (pun intended) of the author's personal concerns and beliefs-- the book is far less author-oriented than the genre label might lead you to expect. Montross loosely structures the book around her experiences with five different patients, each of whose particular case provokes an inquiry into the ethics and efficacy of different types of treatment. Montross also provides fascinating discourses on different aspects of medical history-- she does not shy away from psychiatry's checkered history, or from the horrific abuses committed by whatever you might call its predecessors</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">(the word "bedlam" is derived from Bethlem Royal Hospital). Instead, Montross makes a convincing case for the compassionate, rational care of ill individuals, something we frequently fail to provide even today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Montross does not fit the pervasive stereotype of the cold, Nurse Ratched-esque physician/psychiatrist/scientist. She is able to draw upon a wealth of research and data without dehumanizing her particular patients-- among them, a man so depressed he doesn't respond to pain, a woman who compulsively swallows knife blades and other dangerous objects, and a man who claims to be experiencing a dramatic spiritual awakening. Each case is tragic and disturbing, but also evocative of a particularly difficult concern in psychiatric medicine. For instance, in Falling Into the Fire, Montross discusses the merits of involuntarily admitting patients, examines the sometimes-tricky line between intense spirituality and madness, and even debates the morality of murky issues such as elective amputation of healthy limbs (you really have to read the book to understand why that's even a debatable issue). Ultimately, Montross poses more questions than she can provide definitive answers, a testament more to the complexity of her chosen career than to her own insight, which is extraordinary. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Personally, I think Montross has done more than enough by shining a light on a number of issues that we might be more comfortable ignoring. I hope to see you at the event tomorrow night-- I expect the Q and A segment will be lively.</span>Hankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09624726383189573857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7859002023682974116.post-72001201178515846972013-09-13T19:39:00.000-05:002013-09-13T19:39:01.572-05:00Book Club Selections, Fresh For the Picking!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In honor of our Book Club Night with Jojo Moyes (who was a total pleasure! What a wonderful event!), a few members of the Flyleaf Staff teamed up to pick some conversation-inducing, thought-provoking, party-starting book club picks. We've got a few print-outs in the store, but in the interest of accessibility, I thought I'd throw them on the blog for all to enjoy. Any questions? Stop in the book store and we'll talk your ear off about why all of these books are potentially life-changing.<br />
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<b>Erica's Picks</b><br />
<a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9780307476074"><i>Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail</i> </a>by Cheryl Strayed<br />
<a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9780307947512"><i>A Hologram for the King</i></a> by Dave Eggers<br />
<a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9780393345094"><i>Capital</i></a> by John Lanchester<br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eaG2wNowreU/UjOvrB7VkhI/AAAAAAAAAGg/ylz9gqp-sXA/s1600/Semple+Where%2527d+You+Go+Bernadette.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eaG2wNowreU/UjOvrB7VkhI/AAAAAAAAAGg/ylz9gqp-sXA/s200/Semple+Where%2527d+You+Go+Bernadette.jpg" width="131" /></a><b>Sally's Picks</b><br />
<a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9780316204262"><i>Where'd You Go Bernadette</i></a> by Maria Semple<br />
<a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9780143124542"><i>Me Before You</i></a> by Jojo Moyes<br />
<a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9781451681758"><i>The Light Between Oceans</i></a> by ML Stedman<br />
<a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9781250020833"><i>Lookaway Lookaway</i></a> by Wilton Barnhardt<br />
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<b>Mike's Picks</b><br />
<a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9780062124272"><i>Flight Behavior</i></a> by Barbara Kingsolver<br />
<a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9781616203160"><i>The Art Forger</i></a> by B.A. Shapiro<br />
<a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9781482533750"><i>The Long Tunnel</i></a> by Meade Arble<br />
<a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9780425261019"><i>Let's Pretend This Never Happened</i></a> by Jenny Lawson<br />
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3IhQ4ITp8os/UjOvcHhHjfI/AAAAAAAAAGU/0mlNKEgkcpY/s1600/Strayed+Tiny+Beautiful+Things.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3IhQ4ITp8os/UjOvcHhHjfI/AAAAAAAAAGU/0mlNKEgkcpY/s200/Strayed+Tiny+Beautiful+Things.jpg" width="131" /></a><b>Jamie's Picks</b><br />
<a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9781565122550"><i>Life After Life</i></a> by Jill McCorkle<br />
<a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9781400067688"><i>The Burgess Boys</i></a> by Elizabeth Strout<br />
<a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9780143112129"><i>Special Topics in Calamity Physics</i></a> by Marisha Pessl<br />
<a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9780778315339"><i>The Returned</i></a> by Jason Mott <br />
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<b>Linnie's Picks</b><br />
<a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9781250033352"><i>Paris I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down</i></a> by Rosecrans Baldwin<br />
<a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9780307949332"><i>Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar</i></a> by Cheryl Strayed<br />
<a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9780143035749"><i>The Liars' Club</i></a> by Mary KarrAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7859002023682974116.post-18754180260206466212013-09-10T16:00:00.000-05:002013-09-10T16:00:30.098-05:00Hard-Fought Couture<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>ISBN-10:</b> 0399161899</span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>ISBN-13:</b> 9780399161896 </span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Published:</b> Blue Rider Press, 09/03/2013 </span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Pages:</b> 288 </span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Language:</b> English </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I may have already mentioned being a fan of Slate's Culture Gabfest one or two (thousand) times before, but how can you not write about a podcast that introduces you to someone as irresistibly charming as Simon Doonan? Doonan is a Slate contributor who writes frequently (and hilariously) about the world of fashion. His new book </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9780399161896" target="_blank">The Asylum: A collage of couture reminiscences...and hysteria</a> is a collection of autobiographical essays detailing his rise from a "crap town" in<span style="font-size: small;"> England</span> to the heights of the fashion industry. Previous blog entries may not have exactly pegged me as a fashionista-- in truth, it's a minor miracle I wear clothes at all-- but Doonan's voice is so unique and hilarious that it transcends the ostensible subject matter. Anyone with a yen for English slang or ingenious quips will come away from this book well-pleased. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">If you need a sample to be convinced, check out <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/life/doonan/2013/09/simon_doonan_s_the_asylum_why_fashion_needs_working_class_kids_from_the.html" target="_blank">this excerpt </a>from Slate, in which Doonan writes about, among other things, the double life he <span style="font-size: small;">was forced</span> to lead as a closeted homosexual in the economically depressed, conservative Britain of the 1970s and 1980s. Or take a listen to Doonan on <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/culturegabfest/2013/09/slate_s_culture_gabfest_on_joe_swanberg_s_new_romantic_comedy_drinking_buddies.html" target="_blank">a recent episode of the Culture Gabfest</a>-- he's a memorable audio presence, to say the least. I'll leave you with this quotation from his book:</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"</span>Though I am involved in all aspects of the Barneys store image, it is in
the area of window display that I have made my name. My displays are
jarring and punky and intentionally shocking: coyotes abducting babies,
mannequins in coffins, fashion suicides, Christmas in July, a
trailer-park tornado. My chosen themes have consistently erred toward
the bizarre and unconventional. Early on in my display career I made a
list of window-display taboos and then proceeded to bust them. Condoms,
broken toilets, live vermin... it is hard for me to think of something
inappropriate which I have not plonked in a display window at one time
or another."</span> Hankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09624726383189573857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7859002023682974116.post-9515452049131477192013-09-08T11:45:00.002-05:002013-09-12T11:33:45.455-05:00FOXFIRE shines.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; text-align: start;">ISBN-10:</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; text-align: start;"> 0452272319</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; text-align: start;">ISBN-13:</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; text-align: start;"> 9780452272316 </span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; text-align: start;">Published:</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; text-align: start;"> Plume, 08/01/1994 </span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; text-align: start;">Pages:</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; text-align: start;"> 336 </span></td></tr>
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On a recent trip to San Francisco, I stopped in no less than five bookstores in six days, and in the very first one (<a href="http://www.booksmith.com/">The Booksmith</a> on upper Haight), I was drawn like a magnet to Joyce Carol Oates' <i><a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9780452272316">Foxfire</a></i>. I'll attribute this to several things: the hot-pink, DIY punk style cover (different than the one picture in the link above); the staff recommendation, which will push me over the edge if I'm ever on the fence about trying a book; and the author, whose spooky prose (while not always consistent) is always compelling. Oates has written on everything from family life and relationships to a set of gothic horror short stories (<i><a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9780547385464">Give Me Your Heart: Tales of Mystery and Suspense</a></i>) that greatly informed my own fiction thesis -- and that's being generous. She's one of the most prolific novelists writing contemporary fiction, teaches at Columbia University, and has a dedicated spot in my shrine of sheroes.<br />
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Now that we've got all of my undying devotion out of the way, I'll get to the specifics of <i>Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang</i>. The first few pages of this 1994 novel seemed like a major departure from her typical style, but as soon as the antiquated politics of the story's 1950s, upstate New York setting begin to sink in, the horror within these young protagonists' lives becomes all too real. Maybe that's what was so charming about this particular volume, as opposed to the collections I've read -- instead of the outlandish, this book is solidly rooted in the utterly plausible.<br />
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<i>Foxfire</i>, whose prose falls somewhere between beat poetry and the diary of a high school girl, follows the lives of a menagerie of teens who, despite their grit, audacity, and exuberance, are trapped within the confines of their tiny, stagnant town. Like most backwoods places in the 1950s, they deal with the sort of characters whose morality is ultra-conventional and whose attitude towards familial and social life is patriarchal: men should rule everything, women are meant to be docile, and children should be quiet and well-behaved. Judgments about each girl's family -- poor, crazy, filthy, what have you -- get volleyed about on every page, and as a reader, it's easy to feel trapped by the book's historical and physical location. At any given moment, the bottom can fall out, and a spiteful adult can send these girls' world into a tailspin. The constant threat of juvenile detention, which in <i>Foxfire</i>'s setting means unchecked abuse of all sorts, looms ominously. This book is the modern woman's nightmare, or at least it's mine, yet I found myself carrying it to the beach, reading it on the BART, toting it with me through every terminal of the airport until I finished it back in North Carolina late one night.<br />
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I won't give away anymore plot points, but I'll encourage you to give this title a gander. <i>Foxfire</i> encompasses the rebellion of punk rock, much like it's fantastic zine-like cover, but the substance within outshines the cool aesthetic of its premise -- Oates puts us in the front seat of Foxfire's lightning-bolt-covered car, hurtling towards an unknown darkness that's all too real in its potential to horrify.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7859002023682974116.post-84887943304766392272013-09-07T19:03:00.000-05:002013-09-07T19:03:16.971-05:00Quebec's Agatha Christie?<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>ISBN-10:</b> 0312655479</span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>ISBN-13:</b> 9780312655471 </span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Published:</b> Minotaur Books, 08/27/2013 </span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Pages:</b> 416 </span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Language:</b> English </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/event/louise-penny-discusses-how-light-gets" target="_blank">Tomorrow at noon, </a>Flyleaf will be hosting award-winning mystery author Louise Penny for a discussion of her newest novel, <a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9780312655471" target="_blank">How the Light Gets In</a></span>, <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">the ninth in a series of books centered around Chief Inspector Gamache. Finding myself deluged with questions about Penny's appearance well advance of her arrival, I decided to read How the Light Gets In and see for myself why Penny has such a devoted following.</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Full disclosure: I read the novel without any previous knowledge of the author or the book series, which various customers have (politely) told me was a mistake. Indeed, the book does participate in larger story and character arcs that I cannot fully engage with, but I feel that Gamache's latest outing also works as a stand-alone novel (readers may also be familiar with my compulsive chronological tendencies <a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9780312655471" target="_blank">from previous entries</a>, and so be assured that I am operating out of necessity in this instance).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Ridiculously lengthy preamble aside, How the Light Gets In is a crackerjack mystery novel that successfully integrates thriller and literary fiction elements into its Quebecois<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span dir="auto"><span style="font-size: small;">bouillabaisse</span>. You see, the Gamache series takes place largely in French Canada, and derives a great deal of its character and personality from the region's rich culture<span style="font-size: small;">. <span style="font-size: small;">I wouldn't be surprised if many readers would feel an urge to decamp immediately for <span style="font-size: small;">Penny's idyllic <span style="font-size: small;">small town<span style="font-size: small;"> Three Pines<span style="font-size: small;">, which is equipped (I feel obliged to add) with an independent bookstore<span style="font-size: small;"> and a nearby bistro. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span dir="auto"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">How the Light Gets <span style="font-size: small;">In is comfort food in the best sense of the phrase. Penny eschews the almost pornographic depictions of<span style="font-size: small;"> violence and sexuality that <span style="font-size: small;">many modern <span style="font-size: small;">mysteries employ in the a<span style="font-size: small;">bsence of creativity. Penny's novels are more old-fashioned puzzlers, with a<span style="font-size: small;">n add<span style="font-size: small;">ed</span> </span>focus on character<span style="font-size: small;">ization. You might (or might not) <span style="font-size: small;">be su<span style="font-size: small;">rprised to find out how<span style="font-size: small;"> effective creating likeable characters is in producing suspense, a<span style="font-size: small;">n evergreen <span style="font-size: small;">literary tactic if there ever was one. So, come on down to Flyle<span style="font-size: small;">af and listen to an experienced craftsman s<span style="font-size: small;">hare a few tips of the trade</span>. <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Before you know it,</span> you'll be<span style="font-size: small;"> settling <span style="font-size: small;">into a comfy ar<span style="font-size: small;">mchair with one <span style="font-size: small;">(or two, o<span style="font-size: small;">r three...) of <span style="font-size: small;">Penny's books, sipping <span style="font-size: small;">warm </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span dir="auto"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">c</span>afé au lait and waiting impatiently for winter. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Hankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09624726383189573857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7859002023682974116.post-84955252419204506942013-09-04T13:09:00.000-05:002013-09-04T13:09:36.431-05:00Criticism can be Clever...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">...and surprisingly poignant</span>. <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Take, for example, <a href="http://www.latimes.com/features/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-david-rakoff-20130818,0,478365.story" target="_blank">this LA Times review</a></span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">of <a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9780385535212" target="_blank">Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish</a> written, in a tribute to the late author David Rakoff, entirely in rhyming verse. I think it captures--much more skillfully--what I was trying to say in my own "<a href="http://flyleafbooks-chapelhill.blogspot.com/2013/08/one-last-gift.html" target="_blank">review</a>." I'll leave you with a snippet from </span><span class="toolSet" style="width: 335px;"><span class="byline" itemprop="author"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Carol Muske-Dukes' article (and a special thanks to the Flyleaf staffer who tipped me off to her incredible piece).</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"If rhyming poetry makes you back off —
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Try "Love, Dishonor..." by the late David Rakoff.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Although it's writ in the style of Seuss,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Its dazzling wit (never obtuse) —</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Will keep you following its masterful plot</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And after a while, the tetrameter trot,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The tap-dancing, cliff-hanging, dizzying rhyme</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Will begin to seem natural, in metronome time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">'Cause metronome time is the beat of the heart,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The tick-tock, the chiming of breath from the start."</span>Hankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09624726383189573857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7859002023682974116.post-57798357903558893932013-08-31T10:47:00.000-05:002013-08-31T10:47:15.498-05:00Locally Grown<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbSRADf7X7Upo-Z4Z724OG3iGeyDvJbgvkTQzbMW4Lv3KBx1kB4M0R2n7gjBUzJ2rxV88rX01Rc8ezw5dTmAeqS0WG49hIrqnO8O4Rc48hc2xpUAReAGUP_K19MoGN7N-urFM0fiV-a5o/s1600/localsouls.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbSRADf7X7Upo-Z4Z724OG3iGeyDvJbgvkTQzbMW4Lv3KBx1kB4M0R2n7gjBUzJ2rxV88rX01Rc8ezw5dTmAeqS0WG49hIrqnO8O4Rc48hc2xpUAReAGUP_K19MoGN7N-urFM0fiV-a5o/s1600/localsouls.JPG" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>ISBN-10:</b> 087140379X</span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>ISBN-13:</b> 9780871403797 </span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Published:</b> Liveright Publishing Corporation, 09/01/2013 </span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Pages:</b> 352 </span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Language:</b> English </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Well, we've been waiting a long time for this one. Next month, Hillsborough novelist and local fixture Allan Gurganus will be publishing his first new book in 16 years</span>, <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">a collection of three novellas titled <a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9780871403797" target="_blank">Local Souls</a>. It's worth noting at this point that he will doing a <a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/event/allan-gurganus-reads-and-discusses-his-book-local-souls" target="_blank">reading at Flyleaf on November 4</a>, so get your questions ready.</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I'd also recommend the excellent cover article</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">printed in the newest Indy Week and <a href="http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/hillsborough-novelist-allan-gurganus-on-moral-mondays-and-local-souls-his-first-book-in-more-than-a-decade/Content?oid=3705687" target="_blank">accessible online</a>.</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">There are a number of choice quotations from Mr. Gurganus featured in the article, but I particularly enjoyed</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">this one:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"If you can break through the codes of the middle class, and get the
passwords, and get inside how people live their lives every day, you
find that it's as dramatic as the people who are climbing Everest or
going in bathyspheres three miles down into the ocean.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"Sometimes, to me, waiting in line to pick your kids up from school
can be as awesome and inspiring or exhausting as anything else in the
world. That's sort of where I've pitched my tent. And it's a nearly
inexhaustible source of fascination."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">That's a perfect description of how Local Souls' novellas expand small-scale conflicts and let the reader see the infinite complexities of emotion and human psychology contained inside of them. For instance, while one of the novellas is ostensibly about a massive flood, it is much more concerned with the intricate, somewhat one-sided relationship between one of the Fallen (residents of Gurganus' fictional small town Falls, N.C.) and the retired town doctor. Here's where another quote from the Indy Week article comes to mind: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"There's a real sense of belonging, a real sense of knowingness that
extends beyond what can be said about any given person or family," he
says. "And I'm fascinated with public secrets about certain people in
the town that were kept. In a town of 24,000—the size of Rocky Mount
when I was a child—a lot of eccentricity was allowed. A lot of
exceptions were made precisely because your family had lived there for
so many years that people had gotten used to the eccentricities."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You see, after retiring, the former-doctor becomes fascinated with carving wooden ducks, a field in which he proves inexplicably talented. The town starts to find his hobby slightly isolating, perhaps even elitist, especially after his having been so available to the community as their doctor. This small, odd change has a tremendous effect on his neighbor, who starts to question the nature of their previous relationship, and, indeed, his own intrinsic value, if his company and friendship can be so easily discarded. It's just like Mr. Gurganus to show how even retreating into semi-hermitage has profound effects on those around you-- true isolationism, however desirable, is essentially impossible. Maybe that's why the article depicts Mr. Gurganus in dual roles: the civic-minded, politically active member of society, and the solitary writer who works beside a Confederate graveyard, quietly chipping away at his next masterpiece.</span>Hankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09624726383189573857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7859002023682974116.post-78612508160758712013-08-29T09:22:00.001-05:002013-08-29T09:22:16.705-05:00A Little Heartfelt Cross-Promotion<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><strong>ISBN-10:</strong> 1421519186<br />
<strong>ISBN-13:</strong> 9781421519180 <br />
<strong>Published:</strong> VIZ Media LLC, 02/17/2009 <br />
<strong>Pages:</strong> 200 <br />
<strong>Language:</strong> English</span> </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Last Sunday, I had the distinct pleasure of visiting fellow independent bookstore <a href="http://www.chapelhillcomics.com/content/" target="_blank">Chapel Hill Comics</a> to attend, for the first time,</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">their monthly <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/425249414259690/" target="_blank">Comic Book Book Club meeting</a>. The attendees and staff were uniformly friendly, pleasant, and very engaged in the subject matter. I had a fantastic time discussing Pluto by Naoki Urasawa, a heartbreaking re-imagining of a classic <a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9781569718131" target="_blank">Astro Boy</a> story by the late master of manga (very roughly speaking, the Japanese equivalent of comics) Osamu Tezuka. Because reading is primarily a solitary activity, the joy of a great Book Club is that it connects you with fellow enthusiasts, and reminds you that reading can also be a shared experience. If you have any interest in comics, manga, or graphic novels, come on out to next month's Book Club meeting at Chapel Hill Comics. We'll be discussing Joe Hill's wonderfully terrifying comic <a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9781613770764" target="_blank">Locke & Key</a>, and I predict it will be a blast.</span>Hankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09624726383189573857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7859002023682974116.post-39375740987376891402013-08-26T09:13:00.000-05:002013-08-26T09:34:32.340-05:00The Next Big Thing<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>ISBN-10:</b> 0778315339</span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>ISBN-13:</b> 9780778315339 </span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Published:</b> Harlequin MIRA, 08/27/2013 </span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Pages:</b> 352 </span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Language:</b> English </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Continuing Flyleaf's pretty spectacular run of author events, Jason Mott will be launching his debut novel <a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9780778315339" target="_blank">The Returned</a></span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">at Flyleaf <a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/event/jason-mott-launches-his-new-novel-returned" target="_blank">tomorrow</a>. The Returned has been garnering some great reviews and impressive pull-quotes from the likes of <a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9781455573820" target="_blank">Douglas Preston</a> and <a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9780316175661" target="_blank">Eowyn Ivey</a>, and has had the rights optioned for a television show by Brad Pitt's production company. As Independent Weekly noted on its <a href="http://www.indyweek.com/" target="_blank">Eight Days a Week </a>feature, this may very well be the best chance you'll have to see Mott before he really blows up. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Returned's plot revolves around a very sci-fi premise</span>: <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">what would happen if our departed loved ones started returning to life? This begins to happen all over the world, eventually returning Harold and Lucille Hargrave's (our protagonists) long-dead son to their family. Naturally, this causes its fair share of problems-- over-population, prejudice, etc.-- but Mott is less concerned with the sociological implications of his sci-fi scenario than</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">the emotional ones.</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Returned is, at its heart, a meditation on grief, but it's not without sprinklings of humor, Southern charm, and even a few action sequences. If you would like to see for yourself how Mott took on such a difficult topic, I'll see you at Flyleaf 7:00 tomorrow.</span>Hankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09624726383189573857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7859002023682974116.post-25104279487562657342013-08-22T16:55:00.000-05:002013-08-22T16:55:29.823-05:00Preparation for the Big Event (Part Two)<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><strong>ISBN-10:</strong> 140006788X<br />
<strong>ISBN-13:</strong> 9781400067886 <br />
<strong>Published:</strong> Random House, 08/20/2013 <br />
<strong>Pages:</strong> 624 <br />
<strong>Language:</strong> English </span> </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">In just two days, <a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/event/marisha-pessl-reads-and-signs-her-new-novel-night-film" target="_blank">Marissa Pessl will be interviewed by Haven Kimmel </a>at Flyleaf Books.</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Since I've already <a href="http://flyleafbooks-chapelhill.blogspot.com/2013/08/preparation-for-big-event.html" target="_blank">praised her debut novel to the high heavens</a>, I thought I would take a moment and tell you why you should read her new novel, <a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9781400067886" target="_blank">Night Film</a>. In some ways, Night Film is actually a significant departure from <a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9780143112129" target="_blank">Special Topics</a></span>. <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Instead of a teenage girl, the story concerns a reporter and his obsessive investigation into the death of Ashley Cordova, the daughter of an enigmatic director whose films have inspired obsessive devotion from his many followers.</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It's very difficult to discuss the plot any further without spoiling the many twists and turns the narrative takes, but it's safe to say that the novel's structure creepily echoes a descent into madness. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Pessl is able to mine huge amounts of dread and horror out of seemingly typical noir scenarios. However, things quickly take a turn for the weird that will pull the reader further and further into a terrifying rabbit hole of obsession, ambiguity, and mystery. I practically flew through the book, especially during one of Pessl's many masterfully executed set pieces, which take advantage of the author's extensive knowledge of film and the mechanics of</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">suspense. Indeed, the book's interest in the darkness that lurks beneath the surface of the everyday reminded me of David Lynch's masterpiece Blue Velvet. The oppressive atmosphere of paranoia and confusion also reminded me of Hitchcock's late-period psychological thrillers, especially Vertigo. Rarely has Hitchcock's axiom: "There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it" been so thoroughly proven correct. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Film buffs will likely tear through Night Film, but even the least cinematically inclined will appreciate Pessl's extremely detailed, vividly imagined world. Pessl's prose remains as acrobatic and funny as ever, with the noir trappings suiting her voice perfectly. Even the pieces of "evidence" that break up the prose-- coroner's reports, magazine articles, newspaper clippings, web pages, etc.-- feel realistic and necessary. The wonderful thing about Pessl's work is that she doesn't trade surface entertainment for depth. An engaging, enjoyable mystery forms the backbone of Night Film's narrative, but if you care to dig deeper you might find yourself as entranced as Cordova's acolytes.</span>Hankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09624726383189573857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7859002023682974116.post-65271074082431946072013-08-18T11:12:00.003-05:002013-08-18T11:12:55.329-05:00Coming Attractions<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTAO18ozGdzP7JIbPch5YiOA5X29iuYY0XIo-agN36CTw2WB-E_7QDam19arl-agqTMT8SAYJ9d_q0aSPSYTaqPS2rko0ugBV9ICygrlfXBnR_QTNM428IJ3u7qi7Btl9dCDsJjkQPXlE/s1600/sandman.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTAO18ozGdzP7JIbPch5YiOA5X29iuYY0XIo-agN36CTw2WB-E_7QDam19arl-agqTMT8SAYJ9d_q0aSPSYTaqPS2rko0ugBV9ICygrlfXBnR_QTNM428IJ3u7qi7Btl9dCDsJjkQPXlE/s1600/sandman.JPG" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>ISBN-10:</b> 0061714356<br />
<b>ISBN-13:</b> 9780061714351 <br />
<b>Published:</b> Harper Voyager, <span class="date-display-single">07/01/2012</span> <br />
<b>Pages:</b> 416 <br />
<b>Language:</b> English</span> </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Flyleaf has a spectacular line-up of upcoming events-- including <a href="http://flyleafbooks-chapelhill.blogspot.com/2013/08/preparation-for-big-event.html" target="_blank">the aforementioned Marisha Pessl reading</a>-- and I've been struggling to get through as much of each author's work as possible before they visit the store.</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">One of my deadlines is<a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/event/fantasy-writer-richard-kadrey-discusses-kill-city-blues-his-latest-sandman-slim-novel" target="_blank"> August 29</a>, when fantasy author Richard Kadrey will be discussing the latest book in his Sandman Slim series, <a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9780062094599" target="_blank">Kill City Blues</a>. For the sake of time, I probably should have simply read Kadrey's new novel, especially since</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I've been told that the individual books work perfectly well as stand-alone stories.</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">However, I'm deathly allergic to experiencing any piece of entertainment out of chronological order, so I began with Kadrey's first book in the series, titled simply <a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9780061714351" target="_blank">Sandman Slim</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Sandman</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Slim is (roughly speaking) an entry into the genre of supernatural</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">fantasy mixed with hard-boiled detective fiction, pulp novels, and noir.</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">If you happen to be familiar with <a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9781401230067" target="_blank">John Constantine</a>, <a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9780451464408" target="_blank">Harry Dresden,</a> or others of their ilk, you'll be right at home, but James Stark is such a compelling antihero</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">that Sandman Slim makes for a great entry point into the sub-genre. Stark used to be an arrogant young magician who was betrayed by his occult friends and given an express ticket to hell. A little over a decade later he's back and spoiling for some vengeance and-- as Alex from <a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9780393312836" target="_blank">A Clockwork Orange</a> might say-- "a bit of the old ultraviolence." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Kadrey is fantastic at describing the various pummelings Sandman Slim metes out and receives, but the real heart of the book lies in its perversely likeable characters and wonderful sense of black humor. Kadrey also has an ear for dialogue and the pithy, hard-bitten one-liner: "</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I'm steel-toed boots in a ballet-slipper world," Stark complains at one point. Searching for other juicy quotes, I found that most of them were far too profane to include on a bookstore blog. This is the kind of series that people call unapologetic, which doesn't make much sense to me, seeing as how you shouldn't have to apologize for a great, ripping read. Sandman Slim is a bottle of nasty mountain moonshine that burns on the way down but more than gets the job done. I wouldn't have it any other way. </span>Hankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09624726383189573857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7859002023682974116.post-74685661294866226452013-08-14T12:30:00.000-05:002013-08-14T12:30:04.941-05:00One Last Gift<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>ISBN-10:</b> 038553521X</span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>ISBN-13:</b> 9780385535212 </span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Published:</b> Doubleday, 07/16/2013 </span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Pages:</b> 128 </span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Language:</b> English </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">When David Rakoff died a little more than a year ago, the public outpouring of grief was enormous and often-- given the literate company Rakoff kept-- devastatingly articulate. For an example, I would suggest reading <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2012/08/10/158560936/on-already-missing-the-angry-passionate-writing-of-david-rakoff" target="_blank">Linda Holmes' magnificent</a></span><a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2012/08/10/158560936/on-already-missing-the-angry-passionate-writing-of-david-rakoff" target="_blank"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">essay</span></a> <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">on NPR's blog (Rakoff was known to many for his frequent inclusion in the popular radio program <a href="http://www.thisamericanlife.org/contributors/david-rakoff" target="_blank">This American Life</a></span>). <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Holmes begins her essay: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"Being funny, unashamedly angry, and deeply human is something a large
number of people try and a relatively small number of people do well.
One of the people I've always thought did it well was David Rakoff, who
has died so very much too young..." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Rakoff's new, posthumously released book </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9780385535212" target="_blank">Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish</a> was hurriedly finished by the author in his final months. Thankfully, the book feels like a beautiful capstone to a short life rather than a rushed footnote. Rakoff has written in both verse and prose, but Love... is almost entirely composed of rhymed couplets. Rakoff's playful style might be jarring at first-- I've heard it called Seussian-- to those readers expecting existential grimness. However, part of Rakoff's genius lies in how he contrasts the whimsical form with the deeply sad content. Another surprising aspect of the book is its structure: around a dozen characters are given their own "stories," which sometimes intersect in odd or touching ways. The setting of the book spans an entire century but can be read in one long sitting-- that's how I read it, anyway, and the characters are still bouncing around my brain. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Rakoff pulls off the rare feat-- as Linda Holmes suggested-- of creating satire that is caustic and funny without ridiculing its characters or dipping into pointless misanthropy. The reason his stories are so sad is because his characters are worth caring about. I must return to Holmes' essay at this point: </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">"Rakoff was a practitioner of a kind of writing that can sometimes seem
to have become ubiquitous somewhere between Usenet and Twitter, because
everyone thinks they can do it: blistering, unforgiving, yes-I-said-it
cultural criticism, dark and mad. But with Rakoff, everything bounced
off a deeply human way of looking at other people — after all, it's only
that humanity that makes your anger and your melancholy mean anything.
Who cares if you can't dance if you wouldn't want to because hey, the
hell with dancing? Who cares whether you despair for your society if you
don't like anybody anyway?" </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I would be remiss if I didn't mention the outstanding presentation of the book. It's a beautiful object designed by Chip Kidd and filled with gorgeous illustrations by a cartoonist credited only as "Seth." It seems only fitting to end with a quote from the book, this one from a scene where the protagonist is delivering a wedding toast and elaborates on the famous fable of the scorpion and the tortoise: </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">"I think what it means is that central to living</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">A that is good is a life that's forgiving.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">We're creatures of contact, regardless of whether</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">to kiss or to wound, we still must come together.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Like in Annie Hall, we endure twists and torsions</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">For food we don't like, and in such tiny portions!</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">But, like hating a food but still asking for more</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">It beats staying dry but so lonely on shore.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">So we make ourselves open, while knowing full well</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">It's essentially saying, 'Please, come pierce my shell.'"</span></span></span>Hankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09624726383189573857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7859002023682974116.post-50238146228724947412013-08-11T15:30:00.000-05:002013-08-11T15:30:46.921-05:00Preparation for the Big Event<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCW-g04TDHSInd2xBLqS11t9LlR1dX0nD9bgAkgRMo93mbESTusvAF20uxZXk0_lhg38JZ-nr7ddRHW-xYVN-zOapl18CNIrXCb1BVl84RN-s6nX8w7Q_PYBIxZRB7dVI08uSLY5L4lMA/s1600/specialtopics.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCW-g04TDHSInd2xBLqS11t9LlR1dX0nD9bgAkgRMo93mbESTusvAF20uxZXk0_lhg38JZ-nr7ddRHW-xYVN-zOapl18CNIrXCb1BVl84RN-s6nX8w7Q_PYBIxZRB7dVI08uSLY5L4lMA/s1600/specialtopics.JPG" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>ISBN-10:</b> 0143112120</span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>ISBN-13:</b> 9780143112129 </span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Published:</b> Penguin Books, 04/24/2007 </span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Pages:</b> 528 </span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Language:</b> English </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/event/marisha-pessl-reads-and-signs-her-new-novel-night-film" target="_blank">On August 24th</a>, author-to-watch Marisha Pessl will be reading from her new book, <a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9781400067886" target="_blank">Night Film</a>, at Flyleaf Books. Night Film won't be published until four days before the event, but I had the opportunity to read an advanced copy (Perks of Being a Bookseller?) and I can assure you that it is all kinds of awesome. I have also been authorized to reveal that Marisha Pessl will be interviewed by New York Times bestselling local author Haven Kimmel, author of eight books that range from <a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9780743247795" target="_blank">adult fiction</a> and <a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9780767915052" target="_blank">memoirs</a> to a <a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9780689874031" target="_blank">middle-grade novel</a> and a <a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9780618159550" target="_blank">children's picture book</a></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">. In other words, expect a really terrific interview. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Night Film may not yet be available for the general public, but Pessl's excellent first novel <a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9780143112129" target="_blank">Special Topics in Calamity Physics</a> is on sale right now. Special Topics was published in 2006, when Pessl was an envy-inducing 28 years old. The book has all of the ambition (Special Topics is one of the most referential and thoroughly annotated works of fiction I have ever encountered) and none of the typical blunders of a first novel. Pessl's protagonist is the improbably named Blue van Meer, the daughter of a traveling professor who eagerly stuffs her head with "literary, philosophical, scientific, and cinematic knowledge" of extraordinary breadth. The encyclopedia-brained Blue excels in school but has a more complicated relationship with her peers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">When an eccentric group of students at her new school-- brought together by a mysterious, magnetic teacher-- more or less recruit her, she becomes spectator to a number of spoilerific events, including a (possible) murder. The plot unravels into dizzying complexity from there, with each fresh wrinkle and twist pulling the reader along helplessly. Expect to spend at least one late night bulldozing through the final hundred pages or so. Special Topics is not just a noir, a coming-of-a-age story, or, really, anything remotely classifiable. That-- along with the obvious bonuses of great writing and characterizations-- makes Pessl's book a fascinating and intoxicating genre </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span class="st">mélange. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span class="st">To borrow a page from Pessl's learned and referential handbook, I encourage you to read Special Topics in Calamity Physics and to come to the Night Film reading for the simple reason that </span>"it is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the
greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough
knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties,
the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in
the best-chosen language" (Jane Austen, <a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9780141439792" target="_blank">Northanger Abbey</a>). See you there!
</span>Hankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09624726383189573857noreply@blogger.com0