Lemuria Bookstore Blog

Growing up in a household with not one but two parents who are artists, I was never bored. I was also constantly surrounded by beautiful art. Whether it was my parents own stunning photography or various other artists on display in our turn-of-the-century house in Sumner, Mississippi, our walls were and still are always full [...]

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For whatever reason I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about circuses here lately.  A couple of weeks ago I finished reading Erin Morgenstern’s novel, The Night Circus*, (which comes out next month) and haven’t been able to shake the circus state of mind since. On the back cover of The Night Circus was a [...]

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Arts Heals: How Creativity Cures the Soul by Shaun McNiff, Shambhala Press, 2004. There are many ways to be creative. Whether you paint, play a musical instrument, arrange a vase of flowers, or put together your own recipe, it seems that all of these activities free the mind from daily troubles or sooth a deeper [...]

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The photo section in Lemuria has always been above par for sure. There is a vast array of well known photographers and then some not well known who maybe should be. Recently we have gotten some incredible photography books in and I just have to spread the good word, as it were. The first I [...]

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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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I love architecture and design books. From shabby chic to the gaudiest luxe, if the pictures are gorgeous and the text’s more than just a description of the picture, I’m in. Lemuria is featuring two of our design books now — a new book on Ken Tate’s houses in the South, including Mississippi and New Orleans, [...]

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I can remember the first time that I saw a piece of William Christenberry’s work.  It actually was not a photograph but a model of a ramshackle building.  Really what caught my eye was the name of the piece, Coleman’s Cafe.  You see Coleman is my Dad’s name so I was naturally attracted to it.  [...]

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Well, you can read the introductions, I guess. But no reading is necessary to enjoy these two books. The Art of American Book Covers: 1875-1930 by Richard Minksy (George Braziller, 2010) Richard Minsky has collected the best of the American book covers and compiled them here in a book that, fittingly, has a lovely cover [...]

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Dear readers, there is something big out there, about to happen. This something is as old as the hills but the awareness of it is about to burst open–if we just pay attention. Rumors, scores of books, television–they’ve all been hinting at it. Even Depak Chopra, the guru of all things healthy, wise and mostly [...]

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I am not the type of person that one immediately looks at and assumes that I have a “good sense of fashion.” And I don’t have a deep background in knowing who’s who or histories and breakthroughs, but I do have quite appreciation for the design and materials with which the fashion giants use their [...]

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