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Bookstore Sales Bound Again, Upwardly 9.7% in April
April bookstore sales jumped 9.seven%, to $757 million, compared to April 2015, according to preliminary estimates from the Demography Bureau. This marked the 8th month in a row that bookstore have risen, following a gain of 10.7% in March, 7.2% in February, 3.8% in January, ix.6% in December, and rises of well-nigh 7% in September and October and 7.5% in November.
For the year to engagement, bookstore sales have risen 6.8%, to $iii.84 billion.
Total retail sales in Apr rose 2.nine%, to $451 billion. For the year to engagement, total retail sales have risen iii.5%, to $i,725 billion.
Note: under Census Bureau definitions, the bookstore category consists of "establishments primarily engaged in retailing a general line of new books. These establishments may too sell stationery and related items, second-hand books, and magazines."
Hastings Entertainment Files for Affiliate 11
After several years of substantial losses, Hastings Amusement, which operates 126 superstores in medium-sized markets that sell new and used books in the multimedia merchandise mix, has voluntarily filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection with its parent visitor and several sister companies, the Wall Street Journal reported. Hastings is seeking a buyer for its stores.
Other companies that are part of Draw Another Circle, Hastings'southward owner, are also in trouble: MovieStop, Hastings'southward movie retailing division, is already in liquidation, and SP Images, which distributes merchandise licensed by Major League Baseball, the National Football League and other organizations, is for sale.
Hastings President Jim Litwak said in a release that the company needs "an additional cash infusion to complete our remerchandising strategy" and is hoping for "an nugget auction to a well-capitalized purchaser," reportedly within thirty days. In a letter posted on the company's website, he added that Hastings has halted game rentals and its buyback program, and is no longer accepting or honoring customer deposits for future movie purchases. Its gift cards will expire on July 13.
In 2014, Hastings lost $10.nine million on revenue of $420 million. Final twelvemonth, losses grew to $16.6 million and sales slumped to $401 million. The company's debts include some $80 1000000 in secured loans and $59 million in trade bills.
The Journal commented: "A declining marketplace for physical movies, music, books and games hurt Hastings's revenues, as online sources of entertainment began to boss. A cost-cutting entrada and emphasis on product lines such as children's products, comics and hobbies weren't plenty to reverse the tendency."
Founded in 1968, Hastings merged in 2014 with subsidiaries of National Amusement Collectibles Association, a major supplier to Hastings of movie, book and video game merchandise and collectibles that was wholly endemic past Joel Weinshanker. With the merger, which created Draw Some other Circle, longtime Hastings head John H. Marmaduke left the visitor.
Taos Book Gallery Hosts Thousand Opening
Taos Book Gallery, a new bookstore at 117-A Kit Carson Road in Taos, N.Mex., that showcases books and artwork, will host its grand opening this Saturday with writer signings, readings and other events.
Mike Butler, co-owner of the store with his married woman, Mary Jane, told the Taos News that they moved from Colorado a year agone "intending to relax and enjoy" the urban center. "We did--but soon our creative juices started flowing once more, and Taos Book Gallery is the issue."
"Browsers volition notice many new books on Taos, western fine art and history," he said. "Used books volition as well be a staple here.... A bookstore that carries only new books just can't brand it because so many new books are purchased digitally. People nevertheless dearest to come into bookstores, though, and find that special treasure. That's why we're hither. It's always great to get the physical book into someone's easily."
The couple "beginning got into bookselling in 1977 with the Barrage Bookstore in Durango," the Taos News wrote. Afterwards iv years, they sold the store and moved to Denver, where Butler managed the Colorado Historical Society Museum Store and afterwards became an authoritative manager with Denver Parks and Recreation.
He is likewise the the author of 5 books published by Arcadia Publishing's Images of America series. The latest, Loftier Road to Taos, will exist launched during the store'due south 1000 opening. Taos Book Gallery besides features Mary Jane Butler's figurative sculptures, created from sticks, bones, fabric and constitute items.
Snowfall Goose Bookstore in Stanwood, Wash., to Shut
Snow Goose Books & Frames, Stanwood, Wash., is closing. In a letter to friends and customers on its website, co-owners Tom Bird and Kristine Kaufman, who purchased the business in 1998, expressed sadness that "the time has come for us to say a fond cheerio. Despite our best efforts, we have not been able to observe someone to take over the reins here.... Although we volition still be here into the month of June, we desire to take this fourth dimension to say a huge 'give thanks you' for all your support over the years. You welcomed united states of america when nosotros outset arrived, you helped us motion (twice, that's ii split up thank you), you lot got us through the Great Recession, yous made us a office of your lives. And you've given usa the best job in the world--sharing books we love with people who love books."
Mourning the impending loss of the town's bookstore, Stanwood Camano News columnist Jeremiah O'Hagan wrote: "I've spent my life aswirl in words, and bookstores have been a constant--shopping in them, going to readings in them, comparing them. The best ones warehouse an surface area's literary civilisation. For all the years I've been effectually town, I've counted Snowfall Goose among the surprisingly great shops.... Books mirror our dreams and aspirations and insecurities. Our fantasies. It's intimate to let someone into your reading life, and to frequent a bookstore is to trust the persons running it. So far, no one is buying Snowfall Goose. Bird and Kaufman take cut prices 30% and are selling everything, even the shelves. I--we all--wish them the best in retirement, though I can't help wondering, What is a town without a bookstore?"
Obituary Annotation: Gregory Rabassa
Gregory Rabassa, "a translator of worldwide influence and esteem who helped introduce Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Julio Cortazar and other Latin American authors to millions of English language-linguistic communication readers," died Monday, the Associated Printing reported. He was 94. Describing him equally "an essential gateway to the 1960s Latin American 'blast,' " the AP noted that he "worked on the novel that helped beginning the boom, Cortazar's Hopscotch, for which Rabassa won a National Book Laurels for translation. He besides worked on the novel which divers the boom, Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Confinement, a monument of 20th century literature."
"He'south the godfather of us all," said acclaimed translator Edith Grossman. "He's the one who introduced Latin American literature in a serious way to the English-speaking earth."
In 2001, Rabassa received a lifetime accomplishment accolade from the PEN American Centre for contributions to Hispanic literature. He was presented a National Medal of Arts in 2006 for translations which "continue to enhance our cultural understanding and enrich our lives."
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Prototype of the Day: The Misadventures of Max Crumbly
A festive school visit on June 9, organized by bbgb Books in Richmond, Virginia, helped launch a new serial from Dork Diaries writer Rachel Renée Russell. The debut title is The Misadventures of Max Crumbly: Locker Hero (Simon & Schuster), starring a boy braving the scariest place he's ever been: Southward Ridge Middle School. Here, the Max Crumbly creators visit Bettie Weaver Elementary School in Midlothian, Va. Top row: Jenny Maslink, library banana; Lara Ivey, librarian; Lesser row: Erin Russell, Rachel Renée Russell, Nikki Russell. (Erin and Nikki are co-writers/illustrators with Rachel on the Dork Diaries and Max Crumbly books.) (Photo: Faye Bi)
Bookstore Chalkboard of the Day: 'Honey is...'
On Facebook yesterday, Literati Bookstore, Ann Arbor, Mich., posted a photo of its sidewalk chalkboard, featuring Lin-Manuel Miranda's "quote of the day, week, calendar month, and year."
Lost, then Plant: Customs Bookstore'due south Cat
"The feline heart of literary Park Slope is back at domicile," DNAInfo noted in reporting that Tiny the Usurper, the true cat that has lived in Brooklyn's Customs Bookstore for the past seven years, "went missing Monday night but was back at the store Tuesday evening." The missing kitty saga was chronicled on Tiny's personal Instagram feed.
"He's dorsum at the store prophylactic and audio," said co-owner Ezra Goldstein, adding that news of the missing cat "went so viral that a woman we know on Commencement Street saw a notice on Park Slope Parents, spotted an unfamiliar cat in her backyard, and gave u.s.a. a call.... We are extremely attached to him. He's integral to our identity. He's better known than whatever of us, that's for sure."
Staffer Michael Bough noted that Tiny has returned to his usual spot, "flopped over the keyboard" at the store.
Riverhead Table Goes Due west
About a yr ago, Glory Anne Plata, senior publicist at Riverhead Books, came upwardly with an thought that married her passion for books and her passion for food in a style she thought would add to the chat about Riverhead books and involve in a collaborative way the publisher's authors and friends from the literary and culinary worlds. Called Riverhead Table, the inaugural event took place last winter at the New York City abode of a Riverhead staffer: a dinner inspired by and designed to gloat The Paying Guest by Sarah Waters.
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| Dinner guests: (l.-r.) radio host Michael Krasny; Books Inc's Michael Tucker; writer T.J. Stiles; Volume Passage's Elaine Petrocelli; writer of the evening Janis Melt Newman; and the host, novelist Scott James. | |
"Since then, our monthly gatherings take flourished to include the participation of our authors--including Marlon James, One thousand thousand Wolitzer and Emma Straub--plus heady partnerships with local restaurants," Plata said. Riverhead posts pictures from the Riverhead Table events--including the book-inspired menus--on its social media platforms.
When Janis Cooke Newman, whose novel A Principal Plan for Rescue was published in paperback in May, heard most Riverhead Table, she immediately asked her publisher if she could bring the issue west to the San Francisco Bay Surface area. (They had been near exclusively held in New York.) Riverhead said aye.
Like many people in the Bay Area book customs, Newman wears several literary hats--novelist, founding coordinator of Litquake'due south Lit Camp for aspiring writers and a fellow member of the Castro Writers Cooperative, a group of writers who share working space. Her association with the Co-op helped Newman discover a venue--the newly renovated home of Co-op cofounder and novelist Scott James (aka Kemble Scott) and his husband, Jerry Cain (a Silicon Valley figure long associated with Facebook).
A Principal Plan for Rescue focuses on the unlikely intersection of an 11-year-old New York City boy who loses nearly of his sight after his mother'due south death, which coincides with the Japanese set on on Pearl Harbor, and a tragic love story set up in war-torn Berlin. Newman planned the menu effectually Rebecca'southward dream of escaping Berlin--the kind of meal that could have been served in a Paris bistro.
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| Newman is all smiles as she serves. | |
The 26 dinner guests included bookstore owners Elaine and Nib Petrocelli (Book Passage) and Margie and Michael Tucker (Books Inc.); Calvin Crosby and Ann Seaton from the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association; authors Frances Dinkelspiel (Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsession, and Arson in the Vineyards of California), Cristina Garcia (Rex of Cuba), Michelle Richmond (Golden State) and T.J. Stiles (who but won his second Pulitzer, for Custer'south Trials); and members of the media Jane Ciabattari (NBCC and LitHub), Evan Karp (San Francisco Chronicle) and Michael Krasny (host of KQED'south Forum and author of the forthcoming Let There Be Laughter: A Treasury of Great Jewish Humor and What It Ways).
No stranger to author dinners, Michael Tucker noted that Riverhead Table, which allows the author to cull the culinary style that best suits it, puts a new spin on the all-important "one-on-i" that helps get booksellers excited about a book. "At that place's zero like information technology," he said, adding that the event reaffirms how the quality of a book is nicely digested in talking with others nigh it.
For Newman, who has already seen a boost via her guests' social media posts, the consequence presented an unusual way to "promote a book without feeling like a volume promotion." --Bridget Kinsella
Book Trailer of the Mean solar day: I'thou a Bright Niggling Black Boy
The trailer forI'chiliad a Brilliant Picayune Black Male child past Joshua B. Drummond and Betty One thousand. Bynum, illustrated by Brian McGee (PaperUp Publishing/Dreamtitle Publishing), features spots by Denzel Washington, Samuel Jackson, Vin Diesel, Omari Hardwick, Blair Underwood, Michael Ealy, Raphael Saadiq, Hill Harper, Drumma Boy, Malik Yusef, Henry Simmons and more than--all of whom encourage immature blackness boys to "exist vivid."
Media Estrus: Freddie Prinze Jr. on Conan
Today:
Fresh Air: David Daley, author of Ratf**ked: The True Story Behind the Underground Plan to Steal America'due south Commonwealth (Liveright, $26.95, 9781631491627).
Tomorrow:
Ellen: Alison Sweeney, author of Opportunity Knocks: A Novel (Hachette Books, $14.99, 9780316261609).
Conan: Freddie Prinze Jr., author of Dorsum to the Kitchen: 75 Delicious, Existent Recipes (& True Stories) from a Nutrient-Obsessed Actor (Rodale, $27.50, 9781623366926).
Movies: Goodbye Christopher Robin
Domhnall Gleeson will play Winnie the Pooh creator A.A. Milne and Margot Robbie the author's married woman in Goodbye Christopher Robin, Deadline reported. Directed past Simon Curtis (My Calendar week with Marilyn) from a script past Frank Cottrell Boyce (Millions) and Simon Vaughan (War and Peace), the projection "gives a glimpse into the relationship" betwixt the dear children's author and his son, "whose toys inspired the magical world of Winnie the Pooh. Along with his mother Daphne, and his nanny Olive, Christopher Robin and his family are swept up in the international success of the books," Borderline wrote.
"I am delighted to be collaborating with Frank Cottrell Boyce to tell the remarkable and poignant story of the family behind the creation of Winnie the Pooh," said Curtis. "We are assembling a wonderful bandage, headed by two actors I am longing to work with--Domhnall Gleeson and Margot Robbie."
Awards: Forwards Poetry Shortlist
Finalists have been named for the £fifteen,000 (virtually $21,173) Forward Prize for Poesy and the £5,000 (nearly $vii,057) Felix Dennis Prize for All-time First Collection, which are "dedicated to heralding fresh new voices as well as commemorating famous names." Winners volition be announced September xx. This year'due south shortlisted books are:
All-time drove
Measures of Expatriation by Vahni Capildeo
The Bullheaded Roadmaker by Ian Duhig
Considering the Women by Choman Hardi
Falling Awake by Alice Oswald
Say Something Back by Denise Riley
First collection
Disko Bay by Nancy Campbell
Distance by Ron Carey
Tonguit by Harry Giles
Every Footling Sound by Red Robinson
Married woman by Tiphanie Yanique
Book Brahmin: Bob Shacochis
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Bob Shacochis's first drove of stories,Like shooting fish in a barrel in the Islands, won the National Volume Honour for Commencement Fiction, and his 2d collection,The Adjacent New Globe, received the Prix de Rome. He is also the writer of the novelPond in the Volcano, a finalist for the National Book Laurels, andThe Immaculate Invasion, a work of literary reportage that was a finalist for theNew Yorker Literary Award for Best Nonfiction Book of the Year.The Woman Who Lost Her Soul won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and was a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Shacochis is a contributing editor forOutside, and his op-eds on the U.Due south. armed forces, Haiti and Florida politics have appeared in theNew York Times, theWashington Post and theWall Street Periodical. His collection of travel writing, Kingdoms in the Air, is published by Grove Press (June vii, 2016).
On your nightstand now:
A heap, starting with a trio of radioactive books essential for researching my new novel, based on events that took place during Argentine republic's Dirty State of war: the kickoff, Nunca Más, is the report of the novelist's Ernesto Sábato'southward committee to investigate the 30,000 people, more often than not students, disappeared during the so-called war. It is a self-described report from hell. The second, The Flight: Confessions of an Argentine Dirty Warrior by the announcer Horacio Verbitsky, is as powerful and provocative as whatsoever novel always written. The third is Children of Cain by Tina Rosenberg, one of America'south best and underappreciated journalists. A 4th volume, an honorary member of this group, is John le Carré's The Little Drummer Girl, because I can't write my own novel without being inspired by le Carré's extraordinary prose and storytelling. At the bottom of the heap you'll find the manuscript for Perfume River, Robert Olen Butler'south wintery new novel about Vietnam vets, and the galleys for Peacekeeping, Mischa Berlinski's second novel, which I recently reviewed for the Washington Post. Also, my wife just finished Anthony Doerr's All The Light We Cannot See and, later on electrifying me by reading the last folio out loud, she reached across the bed to hand me the book, which I had no other recourse but to park on the flooring. I wish I had a bigger nightstand.
Favorite volume when yous were a child:
Although my female parent never earned her high school diploma until I was in high school, she spent her girlhood as a voracious reader, and I spent my boyhood reading her paw-me-downward copies of the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew series. Only the showtime book that really slammed into me when I was a kid, during the Camelot days of the Kennedy administration, was T.H. White'south The Once and Future King. The book shimmered with all the magic I felt in the presence of the Kennedys, who attended the same church every bit my family unit did when I was growing upwards.
Top five authors:
Let'due south stay with the living. Off the top of my head: Joan Didion, Hilary Mantel, Richard Powers, Adam Johnson, Jennifer Egan. Just ask, and I'll requite yous 50 more.
Book you've faked reading:
Well, who hasn't faked James Joyce? Just my answer, with apologies to my onetime student Tom Bissell, is Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. Wallace was, for his generation, the overactive voice of youth, which worked splendidly for his journalism, but I think I'd accept to be a hell of a lot younger to appreciate his novels, except his very first one, The Broom of the System.
Book you're an evangelist for:
Surely you hateful books (plural), yes? And surely you'd publish the 100,000 words of my proselytizing? For many years, the book that was the focus of all my writerly religion was Gravity'southward Rainbow past Thomas Pynchon. During my 20s and 30s, I don't think I would even allow you be my friend unless y'all kissed its comprehend. Then in my 40s I read it a fifth time and thought, oops, I don't think I better practise that again. "Neat" was non aging well.
Book y'all've bought for the cover:
I adore great cover art, and I'thou thrilled, honestly, mostly, to see a visual artist'southward interpretation of my ain piece of work. That said, I don't always remember ownership a book just because of its cover.
Book yous hid from your parents:
Mein Kampf? You didn't have to hibernate books in my firm. You had to hibernate your cigarettes. Even my male parent was lazy about hiding his Playboy magazines.
Book that changed your life:
More precisely, it's non books that alter your life, but reading itself, and into that template you lot can, over a lifetime, insert many, many books that keep growing and irresolute and refining your sensibilities. Or not. I know more than than a few practiced readers who are bad actors. Anyhow, to answer in the spirit of the question, the book that finally seduced me across the threshold, from reader to wannabe writer, was J.P. Donleavy's The Ginger Man, which electrified me with its delicious wickedness, merely more than that, fabricated me understand for the first time the beckoning playfulness of style, the shape-shifting possibilities of voice.
Favorite line from a book:
The last line of Russell Banks's Continental Drift: "Get, my book, and destroy the globe as information technology is."
Certainly a last line that must somehow find its way into your centre as a writer, not a responsibility or a command just an article of Whitmanesque religion.
Five books you'll never function with:
The ones I lent out to friends that never came back to me. Where did my honey copy of Thornton Wilder'southward The Bridge of San Luis Rey ever end upwardly? Information technology's still out there, wandering the globe. I miss information technology and then. Perhaps i twenty-four hours information technology volition meet upwardly and have a beer with my beginning-edition re-create of One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Book you most want to read over again for the first time:
Speaking of the Latin nail, The Kingdom of This Earth by the Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier, one of the founding fathers of magical realism. Carpentier is a author who tin teach you, every bit a author, to run naked through the universe.
Children'southward Books: America the What?
A squid for president? Lady Liberty on the loose? As July 4 approaches, Shelf Awareness takes the opportunity to trumpet six children's books that explore the ins and outs of this behemothic and complex country.
President Squid by Aaron Reynolds, illus. by Sara Varon (Chronicle, $xvi.99, hardcover, 9781452136479, 44p., ages four-8, March ane, 2016)
No behemothic squid has ever been president earlier, but that doesn't keep this enthusiastic, hot-pinkish cephalopod from proclaiming, "I WILL BE THE GREATEST PRESIDENT THAT Always LIVED!" Why not? He looks fabulous in a necktie ("VERY presidential"), has the biggest firm always, is famous, does all the talking and, as he says "there's nobody bossier than me!" (The publisher swears this is fiction.) Information technology's not until the squid stops bragging and helps a little sardine that his audition starts listening to him. Don't go too excited virtually that moral, though, because in the end the bloviating pink squid decides he'd rather be king than president. "All the power! None of the work!" This hilarious satire won't be lost on older readers, nor the silliness on younger ones.
Lady Liberty'due south Holiday by Jen Arena, illus. by Matt Hunt (Knopf, $17.99 hardcover, 9780553520675, 40p., ages 5-8, May 10, 2016)
Even the Statue of Liberty needs a vacation. Only her friend, Moe the pigeon, worries she won't make information technology back to New York City in time for the Fourth of July. The 151-pes-and-one-inch-alpine light-green lady traipses beyond America in sandals, uses the Florida Keys as stepping-stones and, "At the Grand Canyon, for in one case in her life, Lady Liberty felt small." Her journey across America'due south royal landscapes is captured in grand, comical, wonderfully textured pencil-and-paint illustrations, and she does make it back in time for Independence Day fireworks, thank you to Moe. By volume's end, young readers will have a improve grasp on Lady Liberty's history, and they'll never look at her the same mode once more.
We Came to America by Religion Ringgold (Knopf, $17.99 hardcover, 9780517709474, 32p., ages five-viii, May 10, 2016)
Caldecott Honour creative person Faith Ringgold'southward (Tar Beach) first book since 2002 is an illustrated poem nigh the immigrants who shaped the country and "[m]ade America peachy." The verse form begins, so echoes, "We came to America/ Every colour, race, and religion,/ From every state in the world." In this celebratory picture book, bold, bright, folk fine art-flat paintings reflect the people's history, hardship, songs, stories, music, food, art--and style, past and present--that weave into the country's fabric.
America'south Tea Parties: Not One but 4! by Marissa Moss (Abrams, $xix.95 hardcover, 9781419718748, 56p., ages viii-12, April 5, 2016)
Not anybody knows that three other tea parties happened at almost the same time as the Boston Tea Political party--in Philadelphia, New York and Charleston. The colonists' determination to protest the high tea taxes imposed by Britain inched them that much closer to the American Revolution. "It all started with seven ships and 2,202 chests of tea," begins Marissa Moss's vivacious nonfiction narrative; a handsome pattern, maps and abundant illustrations help tell the tale.
Awesome America: Everything You lot Ever Wanted to Know About the History, People, and Civilization by Katy Steinmetz (Liberty Street/Fourth dimension for Kids, $24.95, hardcover, 9781618931498, 208p., ages 8-12, May 31, 2016)
There are 319 1000000 people in the Usa, living on most 3.8 1000000 square miles of land. The photo-laden, statistic-riddled Crawly America is a colorful, appealingly designed, energetic primer on all things America. This hefty volume shows how America has changed through the centuries and includes sections on the U.South. government, presidents, commencement ladies and states. It also explores the documents that molded American democracy ("Really Important Pieces of Paper") and introduces "Keen Americans" such as Thomas Edison, Amelia Earhart, Mark Twain, Maya Angelou, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Cesar Chavez. A browser'south delight.
All Yous Demand Is a Pencil: The Totally Hilarious All About America Activity Book by Joe Rhatigan, illus. past Anthony Owsley (Imagine/Charlesbridge, $vii.95 paperback, 9781623540760, 144p., ages 8-11, May 17, 2016)
This fun, funny activity volume--and a pencil--is all any kid needs for a long plane ride or a rainy solar day. Trivia almost America takes the shape of puzzles, word games, even a "Hinky Pinky" crossword (Spoiler: "Barack's mother" is "Obama mama"). Along the way, kids are invited to sketch their version of "America's national monster," draw facial pilus on selected presidents (and so, "run across if you'd vote for them"), pattern U.Due south. currency, strategize an unusual presidential entrada, and more. Answers in the back!
--Karin Snelson, children's & YA editor, Shelf Sensation
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