Superior Person's Tuesdays-Revived!

Since it is Tuesday... Here is your Superior Person's Tuesday Word:

ELDRITCH a. Weird or hideous. "In concluding my report as President on the year just concluded, I want to make special mention--and I know the Committee joins with me in this--of our eldritch member, Mrs. Porringer, who..."

We find this word especially fitting considering Halloween is in our rearview mirrors...

Each Tuesday we’ll offer up a Superior Word for the edification of our Superior Readers, via the volumes of the inimitable Peter Bowler. You can purchase all or any of the four Superior Person’s Books of Words from the Godine website.

We're back!

After a bit more than a year-long hiatus, we have decided to return to our beloved blog! It will be a bit  of slow going as we've had some turnover in staff, and we will be revamping what we post here. You can still find us on our tumblr, and as always, we're active on Twitter and Facebook.

You can look forward to the return of Superior Person's Tuesdays, literary happenings in the Boston area, book recommendations, possible gift guides, and may be other features. Let us know if there is anything you'd like to see from us and we will try to incorporate it into our blog.

We're so happy to be back!

We're excited to announce that we'll be switching our blog over to Tumblr as of today. Check our new look over here.

Literary Happenings 9/15 - 9/21

Monday, September 15

• Brookline Booksmith: John Scalzi's Lock In, 7 pm

• Harvard Book Store: Ed Piskor's Hip Hop Family Book Tree (1 & 2), 7 pm

• Porter Square Books: Peter Lovesey's The Stone Wife, 7 pm 

• Trident Booksellers: Demo: Make Your Own Vinegar with Chef Bill, 7 pm 

Tuesday, September 16

• Brookline Booksmith: Gail Gutradt’s In a Rocket Made of Ice, 7 pm

• Harvard Book Store: Adam Tanner's What Stays in Vegas: The World of Personal Data -Lifeblood of Big Business- and the End of Privacy as We Know It, 7 pm

• Porter Square Books: Laurence Ralph's Renegade Dreams, 7 pm

• Trident Booksellers: Beatleness: How The Beatles and Their Fans Remade the World, 7 pm

Wednesday, September 17

• Brookline Booksmith: Graywolf Poetry Night, 7 pm

• Harvard Book Store: Caleb Scharf's The Copernicus Complex: Our Cosmic Significance in a Universe of Planets and Probabilities, 7 pm & Laurence Tribe's Uncertain Justice: The Roberts Court and the Constitution, 7 pm

•  Porter Square Books: Judges Who Write: Gordon Martin & Michael Ponsor, 7 pm

• Trident Booksellers: Paint Nite: Birch Path, 7 pm

Thursday, September 18

• Brookline Booksmith: Steve Almond's Against Football, 6 pm & Small Press Book Club, 7 pm

• Harvard Book Store: Sarah Waters's The Paying Guests (in conversation with Emily M. Danforth), 6 pm & Nick Montfort's Three Works: #!, World Clock, and 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10, 7 pm

• Porter Square Books: David Mitchell's The Bone Clocks, 6:30 pm

• Trident Booksellers: Forensics Panel and Launch of THE SKELLETON CREW, 7 pm

Friday, September 19 

• Brookline Booksmith: Breakwater Reading Series, 7 pm
  

• Harvard Book Store: Rainbow Rowell's Landline, 6 pm & Rowen Jacobsen's Apples of Uncommon Character: Heirlooms, Modern Classics, and Little-Known Wonders, 7 pm

• Trident Booksellers: TRIVIA, 8 am

Saturday, September 20

• Brookline Booksmith: Children's Storytime, 10:30 am
  

Sunday, September 21

• Brookline Booksmith: Carol Dine's Orange Night, 6 pm
  

• Porter Square Books: Book Club, 11 am & Dinner with Laird Hunt, 7 pm

Back in Stock: Crime and Puzzlement!

We're excited to announce that Lawrence Treat's Crime and Puzzlement: 24 Solve-Them-Yourself-Mysteries is back in stock! See how sharp your detective skills are. And note that this predates the opening of an actual store called Boswell Book Company in Milwaukee. We promise that no booksellers were harmed in the making of this book.

Superior Person's Tuesday: Mendaciloquent

MENDACILOQUENT a. Speaking lies. Congressman please note: if you say this quickly enough, on the floor of the house, when characterizing another Congressman (and God knows, in that environment you'll have plenty of occasions for so doing), the Speaker just might let you get away with it.

Each Tuesday we’ll offer up a Superior Word for the edification of our Superior Readers, via the volumes of the inimitable Peter Bowler. You can purchase all or any of the four Superior Person’s Books of Words from the Godine website..

Superior Person's Tuesday: Ygdrasil

YGDRASIL, n. The gigantic ash tree which, according to Norse mythology, binds together with its roots and branches the whole of earth, heaven and hell. Suggested as a pet name for that tree in your backyard — the one you want your husband to chop down before its spreading canopy brings total darkness to your clothesline, your herb garden and your sunbaking spot.

Image via Viking-Mythology.com.

Each Tuesday, we’ll offer up a Superior Word for the edification of our Superior Readers, via the volumes of the inimitable Peter Bowler. You can purchase all or any of the four Superior Person’s Books of Words from the Godine website. Ygdrasil appears in the third.

Literary Happenings 8/19 - 8/22

Monday August 18

• Porter Square Books: Joshua Wolf Shenk's Powers of Two, in conversation with Sven Birkerts, 7 pm
  

Tuesday August 19

• Brookline Booksmith: Gail Gutradt’s In a Rocket Made of Ice, 7 pm

• Porter Square Books: Therese Sellers's Alpha Is for Anthropos, 7 pm

Wednesday August 20

• Brookline Booksmith: Stephanie Feldman’s The Angel of Losses, 7 pm

•  Porter Square Books: Elizabeth Benedict's Don't Sweat the Essay, 7 pm

Thursday August 21

• Brookline Booksmith: Small Press Book Club discusses The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson, 7 pm
• Trident Booksellers: Kristen Harnisch’s The Vintner’s Daughter, 7 pm

• Porter Square Books: Dan Ward's F.I.R.E. How Fast, Inexpensive, Restrained, and Elegant Methods Ignite Innovation, 7 pm

Friday August 22

• Harvard Bookstore: Fiction Fridays, get 15% off fiction purchases in store. 

"I Remembers" from the Staff at Godine: Heather

In celebration of Godine's new publication of Perec's I Remember, the office staff reflected on a few of our own I-Remember moments. Here are a few reminiscences from production manager Heather Tamarkin:

1.       I remember slap bracelets
2.       I remember when Joey Potter sang "On My Own" for the pageant episode of Dawson's Creek and everyone imitated her in the high school cafeteria for weeks
3.       I remember Gak, and Floam, but I don't remember what you were supposed to do with them
4.       I remember (and try to forget) overall shorts, butterfly clips, white eyeliner, and metallic taupe-brown lipstick

Check out I Remember and other Perec titles from Godine on our website!