They’re flying.
Freddy Day!!!
The Brothers Gizzi
Matt’s book Picks on WAMC’s Roundtable
Matt’s book Picks on WAMC’s Roundtable.
Matt Speaks.
We’re not foolin’
Danny and Samara Klein
03/28/09 – 3:00 PM
A double booksigning celebration: Danny Klein’s new novel The History of Now, and Samara Klein’s first book: Lite n Up: Laugh Yourself Skinny.
first time ever we’re going to have a father/daughter bookparty. Great fun,
just great fun with these two!
THIS WEEK AT THE BOOKSTORE
Local authors, father and daughter, Danny and Samara Klein will share the podium this coming
Saturday afternoon for a first-ever family style event (another one like that will be coming in May,
but more about that later).
Danny’s new book “The History of Now” is a love letter to his home town of Gt Barrington and has
been getting rave reviews around the country. He presented excerpts of it to a full house at the
Lenox Library last month, and had a very successful debut party at The Bookloft just last week.
We’re delighted to welcome him to our downtown Housatonic Street domain.
And we get daughter Samara, too. Imagine this: child of a New York Times bestselling
author gets a job in publishing on her own and then writes herself a book, finds a publisher
(not the one she works for, and not her dad’s, either) and bingo: a spring season with two
Klein’s taking up quite a lot of shelf space here at The Bookstore, and, we trust, at fine bookstores
everywhere.
Samara’s book is called “Lite’n Up: Laugh Yourself Skinny” and i can’t wait to have the two
authors reading bits from each of their books next Saturday afternoon, starting at 3 pm.
Come by for the fun.
ALSO:
Second installment of this year’s “Sit Knit and Listen” will be this coming Wednesday night at
Colorful Stitches at 7:30. The theme is humor. The program is simple. You come to Colorful
Stitches, around the corner from The Bookstore with a knitting or crochet project, or something
similar, find yourself a comfortable chair, sit down and listen to me read funny stories. Sounds
like a good idea to me!
Yours for good reading
Matt Tannenbaum
New Arrivals
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