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 […]
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 […]
Book of the Month – Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
This month’s feature is perhaps the greatest anti-war novel yet written, Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun. We have a very good hardcover copy of the 10th printing from 1970 that includes an addendum to the author’s introduction concerning the Vietnam War. The Saturday Review said this book “can never be forgotten by anyone who […]
Book of the Month – Catcher in the Rye
This month we feature a beautiful edition of a perennial classic, J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye — the book that inspired countless writers of anti-hero, youth angst novels, everything from The Bell Jar to Less than Zero (and, of course, CIA-programmed assassins). You probably read it when you were about Holden’s age, if not, […]
Book of the Month – “All that Jazz” by Matt Phillips
All That Jazz By Matt Phillips Berkeley, California: Editions Koch, 2008. 14.5 x 19″; 16 leaves. 12 monoprints. Drypoints printed by Rebecca Peters and hand colored by the artist. Housed in blue cloth covered clamshell box by John DeMerritt. $1400 This isn’t technically a book, but local artist Matt Phillips brought us one the rarest […]
