Lemuria Bookstore Blog

Fifteen is not a good number for the women in the Slocumb family.  When Ginny (Big) was fifteen, she found out she was pregnant with Liza. When Liza was fifteen, she found out that she was pregnant with Mosey. Now that Mosey is fifteen, both Big and Liza watch her like a hawk to make [...]

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Join us tomorrow at 3:00 for a signing and reading with Jesmyn Ward. Salvage the Bones, released in September, won the National Book Award in November. The signing will take place in the bookstore with a reading to follow in our Dot Com Events Building just across the parking lot from Banner Hall. In case [...]

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When Robert Olen Butler’s last novel Hell was published a couple of years ago, I realized that I had the opportunity to read one of the preeminent writers of our time.  After all, he had won the Pulitzer in 1992,  for a collection of short stories entitled Good Scent from Strange Mountain. After I finished [...]

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Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward (Bloomsbury, September 2011) Watch the National Book Award announcement LIVE at 7pm central TONIGHT: http://www.nationalbook.org/index.html Mark your calendar: Jesmyn will be signing again at Lemuria on Saturday, December 17 at 3:00. I enjoyed the first event we had with her in September, loved her book and am excited see to [...]

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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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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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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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“Mr. and Mrs. Fang called it art. Their children called it mischief. ‘You make a mess and then you walk away from it,’ their daughter, Annie, told them. ‘It’s a lot more complicated than that, honey,’ Mrs. Fang said as she handed detailed breakdowns of the event to each member of the family. ‘But there’s [...]

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I first fell in love with Kevin Wilson’s writing in 2009. This quirky Harper paperback original caught my eye with its beautiful cover and then captivated me with its stories of lost and searching characters. A good short story collection is as congruous as a great album–each song is a gem in and of itself, [...]

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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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