Slog

News & Arts

Line Out

Music & the City
at Night

« Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom e… | Breast Milk Cheese: It's What's for… »

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Books I Am Bringing Books to Slog Happy

Posted by Paul Constant on Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 5:11 PM

I'm bringing a ton of advance reader copies to Slog Happy for you to take home and read and love.

Some of the books are fun science fiction titles—some would say "trash"—like Black Magic Sanction and Night's Cold Kiss. I'm excited about Justin Allan's wild west fantasy novel Year of the Horse, too.

I'm bringing some literary fiction like Momus's The Book of Jokes (about the people who live inside the jokes we tell, and yes, that Momus), John the Revelator (a coming of age tale set in Ireland), and most especially The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight by Gina Ochsner, which I reviewed here.

I've got some local-interest titles, too, like Driven to Espresso, a photo book about the weird drive-through espresso carts of the Northwest (not the dirty kind) and local author Brenda Peterson's memoir I Want to be Left Behind, about growing up in the lunatic fringes of the Evangelical movement and the extreme environmental movements.

And much more, including a couple of books for kids, a book of movie lists for your bathroom or your entertainment center, a couple of really great anthologies, and a non-fiction book about Mexico City that I'm really excited to be giving away.

I'm calling no dibsies, people: If you want 'em, you've gotta come and get 'em. They'll be available for you to grab at the Five Point starting at 6 pm. I'll see you then.

Comments (5) RSS

Oldest First Unregistered On Registered On Add a comment

A book by momus? omfg.

Posted by Baconcat on March 11, 2010 at 5:15 PM

Oh oh oh is the book about Mexico City David Lida's First Stop in the New World??? If it is, you would be crazy not to grab it! It is a fabulous book.

If the book Paul mentioned about Mexico City isn't First Stop in the New World, you should still grab it. Then go buy FSITNW. All of us should know more about Mexico City because it is simply a fabulous place. (OK. Yes. Not neutral. I live there some of the time. I wouldn't lie about it though).

Posted by LuisitaPhD on March 11, 2010 at 5:34 PM

I'm proud to live in a Slog community that's excited about Momus (who wrote a song about me once, sort of) and "First Stop In The New World", which is one of the great books of the last decade.

Posted by Fnarf

on March 11, 2010 at 7:53 PM

@3, were you on the Indiepop list or something, Fnarf?
(I just ran across your photos of interior BC on Flickr last night and thoroughly enjoyed them, btw)

The Book of Jokes is pretty great from what I've read so far.
His other book, The Book of Scotlands, is also newly available in the US. UBS has a copy coming in for me any day now...

Posted by aiff on March 11, 2010 at 8:24 PM