Lemuria Bookstore Blog

You might remember the first version of this little book, Food Rules by Michael Pollan, from a couple years ago — an unassuming, small white paperback with a pea pod on the cover. Just in time for Christmas this year comes a new edition, in hardback, with a few more rules and illustrations by Maira [...]

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Many of us at Lemuria go pretty wild over our DIY and craft books. One of the latest to excite us is Design*Sponge at Home by Grace Bonney, the first book be published from the blog of the same name. Grace started the blog in 2004 and since then it has grown to a daily [...]

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Just like in the film industry, the fall is the season when some of the best books of the year are published. Publishers are gearing up for the holiday season, and slot all their brightest gems, from new authors to the old reliables, to come out during the last months of the year. So this [...]

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Lemuria welcomes back Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler Tuesday evening to sign and to read from his new novel, A Small Hotel. His last visit was in 2009 for the novel Hell, a tongue-in-cheek romp through an underworld which is populated, it seems, by everybody who’s anybody, including Anne Boleyn, Humphrey Bogart, Shakespeare, and [...]

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I don’t really ever work in Oz but Kaycie’s blogs about children’s books have me reminiscing about the books I loved as a child. When I was little my dad took me to the library every weekend, and he remembers “graduating” me from picture to chapter books with The Mystery of the Green Cat by [...]

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At the end of June last year, Adam Ross came to Lemuria for an early stop on his first book’s tour. Mr. Peanut was released by Knopf on June 22, 2010, to great acclaim: master of crime Scott Turow penned a front page New York Times Book Review article, Stephen King blurbed the novel, calling [...]

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Working at Lemuria, we’re privileged to keep abreast of the publishing world; we get to read a book sometimes months before its release – many of us read The Help early and were already excited when Kathryn came for her first signing minutes, it seemed, after it appeared on the shelves. We’re also enthusiastic book [...]

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It wasn’t the language that impressed me as the most foreign thing about Paris, though knowing a bit of French from school helped with that; for many Americans it is the architecture, its decadence and age. A few years ago, my dad took me and my sisters to Paris. We were there only a few [...]

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If you’ve ever wondered what we at Lemuria do behind those old DOS computers all day, I’m going to let you in on some behind-the-scenes bookstore secrets. Once the Christmas rush is over, through the doldrums of summer (come in the store, people!), we take the books off the shelves, look them up, see what’s [...]

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This week at Lemuria we’ve got some great events. The books, one about an Episcopal priest who was an integral force in the civil rights movement, another a collection of letters between one of Jackson’s most beloved authors and the editor of The New Yorker, and the third a chronicle of the blues people and [...]

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