Feb 6, 2012 | Book Store Events
Ben Marcus is the author of Notable American Women and The Age of Wire and String. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Paris Review, Tin House, and elsewhere. The recipient of three Pushcart Prizes, a Whiting Writers Award, a National...
Jan 30, 2012 | Book Store Events
Bestselling mystery writer Nevada Barr reads from and discusses The Rope, the latest in her series featuring Anna Pigeon. In The Rope, Barr gathers together the many strings of Anna’s past and finally reveals the story that her many fans have been long asking...
Jan 23, 2012 | Book Store Events
Anne Holt, Norway’s bestselling female crime writer, discusses her new Hanne Wilhelmsen novel 1222. This suspenseful locked-room mystery, set in an isolated hotel in Norway, has guests stranded during a monumental snowstorm start turning up dead! ($25.00) Simon...
Jan 16, 2012 | Book Store Events
Susan Orlean has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1992. She is the author of seven books, including Saturday Night and The Orchid Thief, which was made into the Academy Award-winning film Adaptation. Orlean discusses her new book Rin Tin Tin: The Life and...
Jan 9, 2012 | Book Store Events
A celebration of the nuttiness and obsessives in all of us, RecordSetter.com is the new world record-setting phenomenon, a website that believes everyone can be the world’s best at something – and where 80,000 people a month come to prove it, or just enjoy...