The National Book Critics Circle announced its annual award finalists on January 23, 2010, a total of 30 books -- five titles in six categories including Autobiography, Biography, Criticism, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry.
Each spring the best mystery and crime books, and their authors, are considered for Edgar Awards. Edgars are widely acknowledged as the most prestigious awards in the genre. We were thrilled to learn that among this year's nominees, several have been prominent in the life of Square Books.
Upcoming Events
February 09, 2010 (5:00 pm)
Steve Yarbrough will be at Off Square Books to read and sign copies of Safe From the Neighbors.
We’ve been following the published writing of Steve Yarbrough, of Indianola, Mississippi, from his first collection of stories, Family Men, in 1990, through his six subsequent books, which have served to establish him among the many great writers of the Mississippi Delta as the reigning literary voice...
February 11, 2010 (5:00 pm)
February 11, 2010 (6:00 pm)
Amy Greene will be on Thacker Mountain Radio reading her new book Bloodroot, broadcasted live from Off Square Books.
In Appalachia, Bloodroot Mountain is named for the plant that grows abundantly there; a plant whose roots ooze a dark sap when cut and has properties both deadly and healing. Beginning in the depression, Amy Greene’s powerful debut novel, Bloodroot, narrated by six characters,...
February 18, 2010 (6:00 pm)
Elizabeth Kostova will be on Thacker Mountain Radio reading her new book The Swan Thieves, broadcasted live from Off Square Books.
Elizabeth Kostova’s new novel travels from American cities to the coast of Normandy, from the late 19th century to the late 20th, from young love to last love to create a story of obsession, history’s losses, and the power of art to preserve human hope. Kostova,...
February 25, 2010 (6:00 pm)
George Bishop will be on Thacker Mountain radio reading his new book Letter to My Daughter, broadcasted live from Off Square Books.
An anguished mother writes a letter to her teenage daughter after she’s run away revealing the mother’s past in an intimate, poignant story of young love and heartache. The surprises of this book are: (1) Bishop’s ability to write so convincingly from the...




