Coming Soon to Square Books

Nevada Barr signs BURN

Thu, 08/12/2010 - 5:00pm

New York Times best-selling author Nevada Barr comes to Square Books to read and discuss her newest novel Burn.

Fans of National Park Ranger Anna Pigeon will be glad to know she’s back in action, though still dealing with post-traumatic stress brought on by near-death experiences in the previous two Pigeon books. In Burn, she shares the sleuthing with another character—unusual, but maybe this is a new trend, considering Anna’s healing process. While visiting a friend who works at the New Orleans Jazz National Historic Park, Anna explores the urban wilderness of New Orleans, encountering beasts far more savage than any four-legged creature found in a national park--the kind who prey on the innocent and enrage Anna—pedophiles. Anna gets bold when she’s angry. We might roll our eyes at the chances she takes, but we’re glad she’s such a gutsy gal and gets rid of the bad guys. And we hope she does it again. SLM

Burn: An Anna Pigeon Novel (Hardcover)

By Nevada Barr
$25.99
ISBN-13: 9780312614560
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Minotaur Books, 08/01/2010

We're NOT opening at 7 a.m. this Saturday, July 31

However, we will be opening at our regular time (9 a.m.) and we'll be having a sidewalk sale. Thanks.

Square Books Podcast: Howard Norman reads from WHAT IS LEFT THE DAUGHTER at Off Square Books

Submitted by Square Books on Thu, 07/29/2010 - 10:28am.

Howard Norman read from his latest novel, What is Left the Daughter, at Off Square Books on Wednesday, July 28. To listen to the reading please click the play button below.

Here is a review of What is Left the Daughter from the current issue of our Dear Reader newsletter.

To purchase a signed copy of What is Left the Daughter please click here. 

Howard Norman at Square Books

Welcome to Wylie World!

On Thursday, July 22, the Andrew Wylie Agency announced it had formed an agreement with Amazon.com for the online bookseller to be the exclusive supplier of e-book editions written by authors represented by Wylie.

The Wylie Agency lists 757 clients, the vast majority of whom are writers and writers’ estates, including Dave Eggers, Richard Flanagan, Mary Gaitskill, Ian Frazier, Philip Roth,  Anne Lamott, Hendrik Hertzberg, Wells Tower, and the estates of Richard Yates, W. H. Auden, I. F. Stone, and Saul Bellow.

HOW TO GET TO WYLIE WORLD?  “DOWN THE RIVER” 

Amazon is the company that, when Macmillan Publishing refused to agree to the company’s price demands, removed the ”buy” button from all the company’s titles.  Amazon is the company that, once threatened by the George Orwell estate for selling 1984 without their permission, electronically removed the text from its customers even as they read it.  

Amazon manufactures a reading device, the “kindle,” which requires its owners to buy digital merchandise exclusively from Amazon – a bit like our selling you books that you could read only by using the bedside lamp you must also purchase from us.  And this would be the only way you could read these books.  Wylie’s authors’ electronic books will be available only via the kindle, only via Amazon, a soiling of first amendment principles that many of the agency’s authors, such as Arthur Miller and Salman Rushdie, have fought so hard to protect.

As you look at this display, we encourage you to think about the ramifications of this effort to vertically integrate the book industry and limit or exclude access to information and free expression.   And, as always, we encourage you to support independent booksellers everywhere.  Together we can let books live.