Lemuria Bookstore Blog

As you may remember from John’s story about “how all this Damned stuff came about,” Zita was our long-time Palahniuk reader currently on staff at Lemuria. So the rest of us are trying to get our Palahniuk education, John’s been working really hard on it. He just finished reading an advanced copy of Damned. Here [...]

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* Doors will open at 5:30 at Hal & Mal’s (where the entire event will take place). * The one night only art show hosted by Fischer Galleries reception will start at 5:30. *Bloodbird goes on stage at 6:00 to accompany the art show. * SPACEWOLF starts their set on the patio at 7:00. * [...]

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In the spring I was handed the ARC (advance reader’s copy) of a novel, yes, I did say “novel” starring Flannery O’Connor as a main character. Now, reread that previous sentence!  For those English majors of us who have read and studied Flannery O’Connor’s shocking and provoking  short stories for decades, I was fascinated.  And, [...]

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For those of y’all who missed the news, John Grisham has begun a young adult series entitled Theodore Boone. The first book, Theodore Boone, Kid Lawyer, was released last June and the second book in the series, Theodore Boone, The Abduction, comes out today! As we do with all of Mr. Grisham’s books, we have [...]

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Q: You published your first book, Flights, in 1983. Over twenty years later, how do you think you have changed as a writer? Do you feel that your voice or process has changed or progressed at all? A: Ha! I love that “at all.” Now I’m demoralized. I think I’ve gotten significantly more ambitious, and [...]

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Not long after I started working at Lemuria last summer, our Random House reps stopped by to pitch some of the upcoming titles to us booksellers.  When they pulled out advanced reader copies of Karen Russell’s  Swamplandia! I thought there was going to be a real knock-down drag-out bookseller battle to see who got their [...]

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Sometimes when we write The Story behind the Pick for our First Editions Club, few readers have ever heard of the book, but that is not the case with Téa Obreht’s The Tiger’s Wife. Since its March 8th release, it seems The Tiger’s Wife and Téa Obreht have been front and center in every major [...]

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Recently Emily and I have teamed up to give our First Editions Club Members a new opportunity and I’d like to tell you a little bit about it. On February 18th, the grandson of Ludwig Bemelmans, author of the Madeline series, was here at Lemuria signing his new book, Madeline at the White House. With [...]

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Several months ago, I smiled happily when John and Joe placed an advanced reader’s copy of Joseph O’Connor’s new masterpiece Ghost Light in my hands. In the fall of 2007, I had been one of the lucky ones to hear the Irish author read from his novel Redemption Falls. Those of us who were at [...]

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Ellen is sitting in the waiting room of a doctor’s office on the army base of Fort Hood, waiting to hear the results of a test. The waiting is making her thoughts run wild; she fears that her cancer’s back, that insidious disease that has taken her breasts already, and that has in many ways [...]

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