tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45078694728758818882024-03-12T16:42:50.274-07:00Flap CopyNews and reviews from the indie booksellers at Changing Hands Bookstore.Changing Hands Bookstorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14370540074206059494noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507869472875881888.post-50135803832899300902009-12-04T12:34:00.000-08:002009-12-04T13:40:43.047-08:00Postsecret Storm WarningRain. It happens. Even, occasionally, in Arizona. As luck would have it, it may happen on Monday night, during our first-ever outdoor event: a talk and booksigning with Postsecret's Frank Warren.If the weather proves particularly foul, we may be forced to move the whole shebang back to the bookstore. We'll know for sure Monday morning, so please spread the word and stay tuned to our Twitter feed Changing Hands Bookstorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14370540074206059494noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507869472875881888.post-2329830308882607042009-11-05T12:54:00.000-08:002009-11-05T13:13:31.823-08:00Staff Pick: Eating AnimalsEating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer25% off in NovemberI know what you’re thinking, but this isn’t just another anti-meat book. Eating Animals is a father’s meditation on family, the power of big business, and the consequences of not asking questions. It’s a look into one of our largest, most ecologically destructive and secretive global industries. With the same literary brilliance of his Changing Hands Bookstorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14370540074206059494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507869472875881888.post-81424518178243080792009-09-11T17:54:00.000-07:002009-09-11T18:01:16.345-07:00Driving Under the Influence of BooksAnd you thought texting while driving was dangerous.Changing Hands Bookstorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14370540074206059494noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507869472875881888.post-41980703797433293802009-09-11T08:37:00.000-07:002009-09-11T12:18:52.960-07:00Post-9/11 Novels: Adding The ZeroThere's been lots of discussion today about post-9/11 novels -- which of them are good, which are bad, and which are timeless. In that final, transcendent category of literature built to last, Ian McEwan's superb Saturday and Joseph O'Neill's lyrical Netherland seem to be the clear leaders, while the rest remain a mixed bag of hotly debated also-rans: Don DeLillo's Falling Man, John Updike's Changing Hands Bookstorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14370540074206059494noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507869472875881888.post-81650363756427346392009-04-08T12:12:00.000-07:002009-04-08T12:26:26.276-07:00Geriatric SexcapadesToday in Tempe, Arizona, it was 88 degrees. The orange blossoms are still blooming, the birds are still singing – but I recognize that this is a temporary condition. When temperatures are above 80 in early April, it’s impossible to pretend that Spring is anything other than fleeting. In a matter of weeks, the Sonoran desert will revert to a desiccated wasteland capable of causing heat stroke in aChanging Hands Bookstorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14370540074206059494noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507869472875881888.post-54413519201485604572009-03-19T14:01:00.000-07:002009-03-19T14:09:40.480-07:00Gaiman and ColbertIn case you missed it, Neil Gaiman was on The Colbert Report last night, talking about his Newbery Award-winning novel The Graveyard Book. Hee-larious . . .The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cNeil Gaimancomedycentral.comColbert Report Full EpisodesPolitical HumorMark SanfordChanging Hands Bookstorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14370540074206059494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507869472875881888.post-91186869262297297682009-02-19T09:53:00.000-08:002009-02-20T15:58:01.605-08:00Former Changing Hands Bookseller Returns with Carnival of VulgaritiesNina arm-wrestles the poet.D. Hamilton Doggett. Now that’s a name worthy of an immense granite tombstone. Of course, the man behind the name isn’t anywhere near extinction, and even if he were, he’d likely prefer his ashes resting in an urn on his mantel, in snug proximity to his homemade samurai armor. Until he gives up the ghost, though, he’ll continue his pursuits as writer, poet, and master Changing Hands Bookstorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14370540074206059494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507869472875881888.post-55889039412007138602009-02-16T14:26:00.000-08:002009-02-16T14:37:39.745-08:00Gayle Greets President Jimmy CarterJimmy Carter visited the bookstore last Friday with his book, We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan That Will Work. Changing Hands co-owner and American Booksellers Association President Gayle Shanks offered him a warm welcome:Changing Hands Bookstorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14370540074206059494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507869472875881888.post-15750094146911603202009-02-10T13:29:00.000-08:002009-02-17T12:21:37.343-08:00Flap Copy Interview: Christian LanderLast Tuesday, we hosted a booksigning for Christian Lander, author of the blog and subsequent book Stuff White People Like. A sizable and enthusiastic crowd stopped in to hear Lander talk about his unexpected rise to Internet fame, and then joined him afterward for drinks next door at Mac's Broiler & Tap, and even later at Four Peaks Brewery. He was generous enough to sit down with us Changing Hands Bookstorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14370540074206059494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507869472875881888.post-31284779707875729802009-02-05T14:03:00.000-08:002009-02-06T13:49:48.595-08:00Three Booksellers' Inauguration AdventureWhen Barack Obama was elected President, I was sitting at a party with a circle of friends, sobbing at the television. I had no words to describe what I was thinking at the time. As a person who rarely shuts up, it was unusual to find myself so inarticulate. All I could think, as I watched the poll numbers roll in, was that Americans had done something right. It just meant so much. So a Changing Hands Bookstorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14370540074206059494noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507869472875881888.post-90352929371330856302009-02-02T16:10:00.000-08:002009-02-02T16:38:41.257-08:00'Appy Birthday, Jimmy!Today is the birthday of James Joyce. So raise a pint, sing a measure, dance a jig, and resolve anew to someday pick up Joseph Campbell's heroic skeleton key and try -- I bloody dare you -- to read Finnegan's Wake.- BrandonChanging Hands Bookstorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14370540074206059494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507869472875881888.post-57345834118526256142009-02-02T11:50:00.000-08:002009-02-02T13:38:00.229-08:00Monster Mash-Up: Pride and Prejudice and ZombiesComing in April from Seth Grahame-Smith, the man who brought you The Big Book of Porn and The Spider-Man Handbook:"Pride and Prejudice and Zombies features the original text of Jane Austen’s beloved novel with all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie action. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton—and the dead are returning to life! Feisty Changing Hands Bookstorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14370540074206059494noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507869472875881888.post-74287513559108051152009-01-30T13:45:00.000-08:002009-01-30T14:52:47.819-08:00Stuff White People LikeJust ran across this longish CNN segment with Christian Lander, author of Stuff White People Like: A Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions. I never realized how much he resembles "Bananas"-era Woody Allen, an enviable hipster credential if ever one existed, at least for those of the Caucasian persuasion. Lander will be here next Tuesday for a talk and booksigning, so stop by, say hi, Changing Hands Bookstorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14370540074206059494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507869472875881888.post-49114759018479777022009-01-29T09:41:00.000-08:002009-01-29T09:58:01.550-08:00Wage Theft In AmericaThis Super Bowl Eve (Saturday 1/31) we're hosting Kim Bobo, founder and director of Interfaith Worker Justice, who will be speaking about and signing her new book, Wage Theft in America. The book addresses a problem that is disconcertingly widespread and sadly under-discussed. Wage theft occurs when a worker doesn’t receive full compensation for work they perform. It happens when Wal-Mart Changing Hands Bookstorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14370540074206059494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507869472875881888.post-20055595012598468602009-01-27T12:53:00.000-08:002009-01-29T09:53:46.792-08:00Rabbit at RestJOHN UPDIKE, 1932 - 2009“Preparing his cup of Sanka over the singing kettle, he wears his usual expression: that of a man beset by an embarrassment of delicious drolleries. The telephone starts ringing. A science magazine wants something pithy on the philosophy of subatomic thermodynamics; a fashion magazine wants 10,000 words on his favorite color. No problem — but can they hang on? Mr. Updike Changing Hands Bookstorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14370540074206059494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507869472875881888.post-9173950820771610462009-01-15T07:34:00.000-08:002009-01-15T07:38:01.996-08:00Best. Commercial. Ever.Turns out Ray Bradbury was right about wall-to-wall televisions. But 2001 has come and gone, and still no pneumatic people tubes!-BrandonChanging Hands Bookstorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14370540074206059494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507869472875881888.post-19922359739997648852009-01-14T15:48:00.000-08:002009-01-17T12:06:06.963-08:00The 2009 Tournament of BooksThe Morning News today announced the contenders in their fifth annual Tournament of Books, a punishing competition in which the editors “take 16 of the most celebrated and highly touted novels of the year, seed them in a March Madness-type bracket, conscript them into a ‘Battle Royale of Literary Excellence,’ and, in honor of David Sedaris’s brother, present the author of the winning book a live Changing Hands Bookstorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14370540074206059494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507869472875881888.post-86810968384933289182008-12-31T10:45:00.000-08:002008-12-31T13:59:02.626-08:00A Literary Man About TownA paper man takes a stroll through a city made of books -- a literally literary town -- in this wonderful video from 4th Estate. It's not unlike working in a bookstore, really, where daily proximity to books and routine immersion in the sum total of the world's creativity and knowledge become commonplace but never dull. It's rated G, but squeamish bibliophiles take note: Several books were harmedChanging Hands Bookstorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14370540074206059494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507869472875881888.post-14243809393625217842008-12-20T08:40:00.000-08:002008-12-20T08:44:46.982-08:00Top 5 Books to Remind You...As a kid, I went through all the drug abuse resistance programs a kid ought to. I still remember Officer Austin, the D.A.R.E. representative for our district. He would come in and crack a few jokes, ham it up through the mandatory all-school assemblies, and then sigh and give the boys noogies. We loved him, dearly, and every one of us promised him we would never get on his bad side.That didn’t Changing Hands Bookstorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14370540074206059494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507869472875881888.post-24409408368224937252008-12-07T08:32:00.000-08:002009-01-15T15:32:46.409-08:00Zombies!If you haven’t read World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks, you are missing out. It has everything. Desperate battles, the near-annihilation of the human race, and, of course, zombies. World War Z is the book I recommend to every red-blooded male between the ages of 18 and 40. But when those same males inevitably return to the store looking for more of the same, I’ve always Changing Hands Bookstorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14370540074206059494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507869472875881888.post-85846947792967457052008-12-06T11:25:00.000-08:002009-01-15T15:47:27.850-08:00Top 5 Books to Re-read and Re-discoverWhen I first read The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger, I was about 14 years old. Reading the book, I couldn’t stop myself from thinking that finally, somebody got me. Only Holden Caulfield understood how phony the rest of the world was, and he recognized how I loved my family even while I wanted to break away from them. That narrator – he was a genius.It wasn’t until I re-read the book in Changing Hands Bookstorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14370540074206059494noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507869472875881888.post-48905457532450613542008-12-05T08:15:00.000-08:002008-12-06T11:31:29.603-08:00Top 5 Graphic NovelsI never read comic books when I was a kid. I didn’t have a brother and the boys on my street were more interested in video games than serials. Truthfully, it wasn’t a genre I knew anything about until I turned twelve. During an exploration of my Grandmother’s house, I discovered my father’s childhood collection of The Green Lantern.Over the years, my love for the genre has changed. After a lot ofChanging Hands Bookstorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14370540074206059494noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507869472875881888.post-29389125096990959462008-11-28T13:07:00.000-08:002008-11-28T13:17:37.427-08:00Top 5 Cookbooks for the Impossible ChildI pride myself on being an experimental chef – I rarely make the same thing twice, and I frequently don’t need recipes. I inherited this trait, in part, from my mother. Growing up, she would experiment with all kinds of exotic, healthy foods. I grew up eating tofu, drinking soymilk, and knowing that whether you called it a chickpea or a garbanzo, it was disgusting. This early level of Changing Hands Bookstorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14370540074206059494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507869472875881888.post-82435298682992960412008-11-20T08:50:00.000-08:002008-11-20T09:19:20.034-08:00Top 5 Solutions to Your Holiday WoesThe holidays are coming, and sometimes it’s nearly impossible to find the perfect gift. Luckily, there’s a book out there for everyone – even the people on your shopping list who hate to read. We’ve asked our staffers – who probably read more than they should – to give us some input about their favorite books. Until the holidays (and possibly a bit beyond), we’re going to publish their Changing Hands Bookstorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14370540074206059494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507869472875881888.post-27568534901744161712008-10-29T13:03:00.000-07:002008-10-29T13:21:30.707-07:00Download and Fold Your Own PoeA little Halloween folding fun from Paper Toyz. Download E.A. Coobie by Goobeetsa here.-BrandonChanging Hands Bookstorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14370540074206059494noreply@blogger.com0