Stock Local to Shop Local
Livingston is a unique literary gem, with more writers per capita than New York or San Francisco, or as I always say, “You can’t walk out of a bar around here without tripping over a writer.” As a bookstore owned by two writers, Elk River Books makes it a priority to support these local writers […]
Book of the Month – Thin Kimono by Michael Earl Craig
This month’s feature is a limited, first edition hardcover of Thin Kimono by my favorite Livingston poet (with apologies to myself). He’s also my favorite farrier, though to be fair, I only know two and the other one is Earl’s apprentice. One doesn’t so much read a Craig poem as one ricochets through it, bouncing […]
Marc’s Favorite Road Books
A woman came into the bookstore the other day asking about Woody Guthrie’s Bound for Glory. She said she was traveling and wanted some good road books. We didn’t have it, so she settled on Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley. However, she got me thinking about all the great road books out there, as well as […]
Book of the Month – The Odds Against Me by John Scarne
I used to life above a former firehouse with a magician. No, that’s not the first line of a joke. We rented an apartment on the top floor above what was then being used as a studio for yoga, aerobics, and (apparently) neo-pagan womyn’s rituals. Meanwhile, we were upstairs; me working on a manuscript that […]
First Editions and Revisiting Wolfe
We’ve teamed up with Gatz Hjortsberg to put his collection of first edition, 20th century writers on the shelves. A lot of good, solid fiction, but a couple stand out in particular: a 1951 Book of the Month Club edition of Catcher in the Rye with J.D. Salinger’s picture on the back (the famously reclusive […]
Hunting, Fishing and Western History
Right now, we’ve got an amazing selection of hunting, fishing and Western history on the shelves thanks to John and Maureen Hull: Roderick Haig-Brown on trout, Jack O’Connor on sheep and desert game, and a signed copy of Clyde “Snooky” Williamson’s massive Winchester Lever Legacy. At the same time, Linda Papworth donated her late husband’s […]
