Hey, Joe.
Joe Drabyak died on Friday. Long live Joe Drabyak.I'm having a hard time getting my head around this. I sat next to Joe at a dinner in April. We compared notes on the appetizer. Everyone said he looked...
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Aw, thanks, Russel. Now obviously the ALP and I had to test our mettle against this list. Next, I hope to post a list of this year's books.Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES. Bold those books...
View ArticleAll the Rest of the Books I Read This Year
Okay, so perhaps I was slightly overambitious, or just unorganized, thinking I would write about every book I read this year in order. Even though I felt like I didn't read nearly as much as I wanted...
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2010 Year-End Roundup, and a Call for Ideas
Here are all the books I read (that I know of) in 2010, in crude alphabetical order. This doesn't include children's picture books, cookbooks, single-issue comics, magazines, or uh, the Internet. My...
View ArticleMoving On, Moving Over
Dear readers of The Written Nerd, if there are any of you still out there,As you may have noticed, I haven't posted anything here in almost six months. This blog served a great purpose for me for five...
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Seed.
I wrote the last entry in this blog over ten years ago -- I was honestly surprised to find it's still here (thanks for saving everything, Google!). In May of 2011 the Greenlight Bookstore venture was...
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Shuffle.
Like every other bookstore I've spoken to or heard about, Greenlight has spent the past year and a half of pandemic-era retail in a state of near-constant reinvention. I could talk about the...
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Wild.
I had the pleasure of speaking with the lovely Damian Barr on Instagram Live this morning, as Greenlight was featured as Bookshop of the Month on his Literary Salon. I feel like I used to be one of...
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Ensemble.
Last week I went to a literary gala and I may be still processing it. The lovely folks at Other Press extended an invitation to their table for the PEN Gala, the annual fundraiser for PEN America's...
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Small Things.
Happy end of 2021! In years past I've often done a roundup of books read; the last one was 11 years or 6 blog posts ago. It's such a fun project to look back on the year's reading; I've been...
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Heaven.
Last week, we hosted the first event in the bookstore in almost exactly two years.I had to look up our most recent event for reference and it was eerie to read the summary notes from March 2020 -- the...
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House.
One of the best things about being a bookseller, wherever you are, is the possibility of developing relationships with authors that have the potential to go beyond fandom. Because of the serendipity...
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