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Subject to its Terms of Use November 10, 2009 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MistPlace/~3/CCBukCU29VQ/220036222.html Two days after the November 2004 election, the bookstore I work at (Elliott Bay) presented esteemed farmer poet/novelist/essayist Wendell Berry at ... http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/1130000313/post/220036222.html?nid=4051 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MistPlace/~3/mS9MU3aPCwI/1830035583.html A few months ago, there was writing here of a mid-summer Midwestern trip which had me traipsing about in head-high cornfields almost before do... http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/1130000313/post/1830035583.html?nid=4051 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MistPlace/~3/yH4Wjh6ShUk/1670035167.html An item in book trade news a few weeks ago was word that Atlas & Co., the independent imprint James Atlas and others have undertaken, is delayi... http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/1130000313/post/1670035167.html?nid=4051 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MistPlace/~3/0v48s51rdvI/1350034935.html From a Man Booker Prize shortlist group that included at least a few other books that we had readerly affection for, congratulations... http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/1130000313/post/1350034935.html?nid=4051 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MistPlace/~3/-c5sM1kf6nk/350034635.html Perhaps calls came in the night: one can imagine the bustle publishing friends in Willimantic, Boston, Chicago, and Lincoln are going through this ... http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/1130000313/post/350034635.html?nid=4051 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MistPlace/~3/hOAGtUbQjNM/1260034326.html Two of our most venerable and vital independent bookstores reached fateful turning points this week, with very different results. After 36 ye... http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/1130000313/post/1260034326.html?nid=4051 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MistPlace/~3/Jjz3RtYTKdY/1060034106.html Each day's news seems, by volume and noise, to render a previous day's news as old, much less a previous week's. Somewhere in the din and haze, the... http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/1130000313/post/1060034106.html?nid=4051 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MistPlace/~3/Umf5V10_bDM/1680033768.html A year ago right now, the big author speaking occasion on our calendar - the one that had us fielding inquiries from activist groups and independen... http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/1130000313/post/1680033768.html?nid=4051 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MistPlace/~3/Ij5t9yoLTzc/350033635.html You could almost see why John McCain could one day be saying the economy was fundamentally sound, and the next that it was in crisis. Almost. ... http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/1130000313/post/350033635.html?nid=4051 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MistPlace/~3/MgMBP6Ta-JA/530033253.html Since the sad news of David Foster Wallace's death this past Friday, tributes and appreciations for him and his work have started to pour forth. We... http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/1130000313/post/530033253.html?nid=4051 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MistPlace/~3/7k946CdN6Mc/1530033153.html It was an informal, early evening gathering - a few people who work, mostly for non-profit organizations and/or foundations were getting together o... http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/1130000313/post/1530033153.html?nid=4051 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MistPlace/~3/DuR4B-o70ws/1520032952.html With a nod to Sara Nelson's piece last week of what was read in a week off, we out this way are having to 'work back' a ways for something resembli... http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/1130000313/post/1520032952.html?nid=4051 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MistPlace/~3/BMuE8oPc4HM/1650032765.html It was a bit of a poignant moment this past BEA. It was a quiet moment on the quiet day that was/is Sunday. I was cruising, mission-bound, up and d... http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/1130000313/post/1650032765.html?nid=4051 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MistPlace/~3/b1AFWrkxbI4/250032625.html With the exception of Port Townsend's Copper Canyon Press receiving National Book Awards (Hayden Carruth, Ruth Stone, W.S. Merwin) and having ... http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/1130000313/post/250032625.html?nid=4051 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MistPlace/~3/W5zCDj5GBiU/290032429.html While there have been many things to watch and listen for coming out of Denver and the Democratic National Convention this past week, one small und... http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/1130000313/post/290032429.html?nid=4051 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MistPlace/~3/FRbhD8DF64o/1600032160.html It was a week or so ago, one of those chance encounters on a downtown street which said something about the complex, often contradictory state of t... http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/1130000313/post/1600032160.html?nid=4051 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MistPlace/~3/hoXEik0Amxc/1880031788.html I don't know what all the noise - lots of wind suddenly blowing across the country, much of it hot air - will result in for Chelsea Green and its f... http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/1130000313/post/1880031788.html?nid=4051 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MistPlace/~3/NWjDOT6EDa0/800031680.html It is a part of this time of year. Tending to things in the bookstore, people coming by from various places near and far. Sometimes it's the odd mo... http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/1130000313/post/800031680.html?nid=4051 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MistPlace/~3/-0OEHp19TTY/1520031552.html Mid-August: those of us in bookstores who work on author readings and signings, whatever else is going on in our bookstores' day-to-day,&... http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/1130000313/post/1520031552.html?nid=4051 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MistPlace/~3/n5cRHo3t2-I/1890031389.html Friday already in this always odd-month, a month one both can't wait to be over and, at the same time, can wish would go on for another 30 days. A... http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/1130000313/post/1890031389.html?nid=4051 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MistPlace/~3/4HME0YVUKo4/1010031101.html Into the bookstore door via receiving this past week, an impressive-looking debut book of poems by Mari L'Esperance: The Darkened Temple, the ... http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/1130000313/post/1010031101.html?nid=4051 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MistPlace/~3/fE8BQb2LovU/1280030928.html The current Fiction issue of The Atlantic carries in it a nice piece by Ann Patchett. Ostensibly an essay about the prospects and perils of be... http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/1130000313/post/1280030928.html?nid=4051 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MistPlace/~3/SWNncOJQc1k/1720030772.html It doesn't take much for things to get by, but it had totally eluded my attentions that the thirty-year-old National Poetry Series - which aid... http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/1130000313/post/1720030772.html?nid=4051 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MistPlace/~3/D8mjh1EWBv4/990030499.html For those of us that do buying for bookstores, no week now goes by without some form of message coming along with added titles for a publisher's se... http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/1130000313/post/990030499.html?nid=4051 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MistPlace/~3/3N4g8rAsdJo/1080030308.html People in Seattle were acting as though it was high summer as I made it back home from a 5-day Nebraska trip - to the resumption of fall buyin... http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/1130000313/post/1080030308.html?nid=4051