Lemuria Bookstore Blog

Here is a book that I really liked, but haven’t written anything about. The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides. I got my hands on an early copy and read it this past July on vacation. This book came out last month with much fan fare. If you missed it here is a shot of the [...]

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“All good things, as they say in the trade, must come to an end sooner or later. Please accept my genuine, my honest and heartfelt thank you for the kindness that you have displayed to me during my 58 years. It has been one genuine pleasure to be associated with such a magnificent university.” – [...]

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“Mellas stood beneath the gray monsoon clouds on the narrow strip of cleared ground between the edge of the jungle and the relative safety of the perimeter wire.” With these words Karl Marlantes began his amazingly powerful novel about the Vietnam War, Matterhorn. The first step to becoming, as Sebastian Junger says, “the preeminent literary [...]

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“Luce’s new stranger children were small and beautiful and violent” The first line of the shiny new Charles Frazier novel that we’ll have the pleasure of selling on Tuesday. And a great line it is. As a parent of small children I at first thought that these children surely aren’t so different from all small [...]

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When Preston Lauterbach set out to write The Chitlin’ Circuit I’m sure he never intended for it to be a “secret history” of Mississippi, but that’s what it feels like to me. As the dust jacket marketing says, The Chitlin’ Circuit is “The first history of the network of black nightclubs that created Rock ‘N’ [...]

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I couldn’t resist running this picture or Ace in our print ads the last couple of weeks. It’s rare and cool to have an author who in his former life played SEC football. We Mississippians are always looking for the next big writer to come out of our state – you know John Grisham and [...]

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Yep, sent my suit to the cleaners and picked out a new pair of flip flops, we’re going to the big city to meet with the publishers. As John said in his last blog the two of us are hopping on a jet airplane Monday at dawn – heading to New York in an attempt [...]

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“A juke house was where anything goes.” – Jimmy “Duck” Holmes There was a time when we went to a juke joint. And we used to go hear live blues and dance until the wee hours. In fact a few pictures of such activities have appeared on this blog. Now days we have little ones [...]

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Last week Lisa wrote a blog entitled It’s not your typical day at Lemuria about our event with Melody Golding and the Panther Tract crew. Well, she was right, it wasn’t any kind of normal around here. The Panther Tract folks have been touring all over the state in the last week and if you [...]

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Next week is going to be a lot of fun at Lemuria – we have events for everyone and every reader. If you haven’t been to one of our events before and one of these sounds interesting then please come – they are really fun and easy-going. Bringing Adam Home by Les Standiford and Det. [...]

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