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Jessica Stockton Bagnulo wants to open a bookstore, and the NY Times is on the story. I knew Jessica — aka Booknerd — as a colleague in the LitBlog Coop….

The LBC winter 2007 pick is The Farther Shore by Matthew Eck. Read all about it at the LitBlog Coop and join in the discussion, starting December 10.

My dad took a sabbatical when I was 12, which meant we packed up the K Car and all of us — dad and mom and me and younger sis…

It’s Jamestown week at the LBC, in which Matthew Sharpe’s book gets all the love a Read This! pick should. Don’t miss the post from Soft Skull’s Richard Nash about…

Nicola Griffith spoke to me about her book Always, an LBC summer Read This! nominee. Clicking on that there link will play the podcast, which includes Gwenda Bond and bits…

Matthew Sharpe’s Jamestown is the Litblog Coop’s new Read This! pick. Megan writes about why she nominated the book; we’ll begin discussion on August 20 (so there’s still time to…

The car is parked and I’ve got blisters to prove I’m in NYC. BEA starts soon. Are you attending? Want to come to the LBC party? It’s at Kerouac’s old…

I don’t want to jump the gun on the next round of LBC nominees, but I can’t stop myself from urging you to read Jamestown by Matthew Sharpe right now….

Listen to author Alan DeNiro in conversation (with me) about Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead, his debut short story collection and the LBC’s Read This! pick. Topics…

Hear the LBC interview with Mark Binelli, the author of Sacco & Vanzettie Must Die! The podcast was produced by the inimitable Ed/Bat Segundo and includes a short intro with…