The latest book I'm taking on is Jonathan Safran Foer's latest, Eating Animals. Those of you who know me know that I may be a weensy obsessed with Foer's fiction. Although I'm a strict fiction reader, I had to delve...
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Many women around the world have no dreams. None. Can you imagine that? Thirteen-year-old women are raped and then expected to marry their rapists. Young girls with fistula are left alone in huts at the edge of villages to die....
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The other day, a customer called up and wanted to know if there was just a general book for the lay reader that explained the US Health Care system. Seeing as how we are in the middle of a national...
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I've commented before on the state of the publishing and bookselling business and I'm sure I'll have more to say about it in the future. In the meantime, take a look at this post by our friend Bill Petrocelli, co-owner...
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Kaled Hosseini, the author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, has an op-ed piece about racism in the current presidential campaign in the Washington Post today. Read it!
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