The Bookstore

Summer line-up

Justin — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:19:00 +0000

We’re not foolin’

Justin — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:04:22 +0000

April, that cruelest month, has rolled around again, or is just about to. April 1^st is the anniversary date of when I first purchased The Bookstore late last century. Something like thirty-three years ago.

But who’s counting? To mark the date this year we’ve got a special treat . . . . kind of, sort of, well, you can read it and see for yourself.

I’ve written a memoir, and it’s just been published by a small company called Worthy Shorts. My book is called, simply, My Years at The Gotham Book Mart, and it’s a short little book that has a subtitle, well, longer than many poems you’re liable to read this year. The Gotham Book Mart was a famous literary bookshop in midtown Manhattan for more than 80 years and I was fortunate to begin my career in the book trade in that fabled place.

And I am so pleased to offer a few stories from those years to you now, in book form.

Ten bucks, plus tax. Hey, a bookseller’s got to live. . . .

I will be telling stories and signing copies this coming Wednesday, April 1^st, from

5 to 7 pm.

If you can’t make it to The Bookstore on that day, I have also been invited to speak about the book, and, I guess, about bookselling in general, at the Lenox Library on Sunday, April 26 at 4 pm and the Stockbridge Library on Monday evening May 7 at 7 pm.

Of course, for those who know me, you know that I’d speak about those days or any other literary topic at the drop of a hat any day of the week right here at The Bookstore in Lenox, which you’ve made my home for these last three decades.

For you out-of towners, we can mail you a copy, if you’d like, for ten dollars plus 2.50 postage and handling. Mass. Residents add .50 sales tax.

Signed,

most humbly,

Matt Tannenbaum

THIS WEEK AT THE BOOKSTORE

Justin — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:21:38 +0000

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

Justin — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:53:58 +0000

In the last thirty years, the big pharmaceutical companies have transformed themselves into marketing machines selling dangerous medicines as if they were Coca-Cola or Cadillacs. They pitch drugs with video games and soft cuddly toys for children; promote them in churches and subways, at NASCAR races and state fairs. They’ve become experts at promoting fear of disease, just so they can sell us hope. No question: drugs can save lives. But the relentless marketing that has enriched corporate executives and sent stock prices soaring has come with a dark side. Prescription pills taken as directed by physicians are estimated to kill one American every five minutes. And that figure doesn’t reflect the damage done as the overmedicated take to the roads. Our Daily Meds connects the dots for the first time to show how corporate salesmanship has triumphed over science inside the biggest pharmaceutical companies and, in turn, how this promotion driven industry has taken over the practice of medicine and is changing American life. It is an ageless story of the battle between good and evil, with potentially life-changing consequences for everyone, not just the 65 percent of Americans who unscrew a prescription cap every day. An industry with the promise to help so many is now leaving a legacy of needless harm.

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Freddy the Pig

Justin — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:41:46 +0000

05/16/09 – 2:00 PM

Tentatively re-re-scheduled: A Celebration to honor the collected works of
Freddy the Pig, written by Walter R. Brooks. What better way to spend a Saturday afternoon in spring in the Berkshires!

Sit, Knit & Listen

Justin — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:21:38 +0000

Sit, Knit & Listen

End of February, spring thinking about returning, it’s time to drop everything, except your knitting (or crochet) needles, and come to The Bookstore this coming Wednesday, night February 25 at 7:30 pm for the first of three nights of our second annual Sit Knit & Listen!

Very popular last year when we combined efforts with our neighbor Colorful Stitches, once again Mary and Bonnie will be on hand to help with any projects you might bring, give advice, circulate in and among you as you sit back and listen to stories honoring Love.

February is Love, March is Humor and April is Poetry; that’s how it worked last year and we’re just smart enough not to meddle with a winning formula!

Good time, good friends, good stories. Refreshments, too. Come one come all!

Questions? Call The Bookstore at 637 3390 or Colorful Stitches at 637 8206. See you Wednesday night!

Your reader,
Matt Tannenbaum

A dirty book is rarely dusty.

Justin — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:54:33 +0000

A dirty book is rarely dusty.

~Author Unknown

The Shade Gallery: an Historical Romance

Justin — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:52:15 +0000

The Shade use to be in the basement. Then the basement filled up with books.

Alas, the Shade was defunct.

Then in a flash of ruddy brick colored brilliance, The Bookstore expanded, and The Shade (as it is lovingly refered) was reborn’d.

not in a manger, and not by a virgin.

But upstairs, by a man.

By Jim Yongerman.

…and you shall know us by our trail of Authors.

Justin — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:20:45 +0000

A list of Authors who thought reading here was a good career move.

(besides Professor Jeremy Yudkin (who shall not be listed alphabetically by last name))

Merritt Abrash
Joan Ackermann
Lucien Aigner
David Anderegg
Faith Andrews
Debby Applegate
John Ashbery
Benjamin Barber
Patti Barrett
Milton Bass
Ruth Bass
Jonathan Baumbach
Richard Berlin
Roy F. Blount jr.
Stephen Borelli
Jim Bouton
Alice Brock
Irene Quenzler Brown
Richard Brown
Elizabeth Brundage
Erik Bruun
David Budbill
Richard Burdick
Jennie Butler
Chris Carnavale
Sharon Charde
Alan Chartock
Roselle Chartock
Karen Chase
Stephen Cohen
Clark Coolidge
Stephen Cope
Bill Corbett
Alfred Corn
Maureen Corrigan
Amy Cotler
John Crowley
Bill Cutter
Jeff Danziger
Harry Ellis Dickson
Dennis Drabelle
Richard Dunlap
Cornelius Eady
David Emblidge
Helen Epstein
John Gennari
David Giannini
George Gilder
Michelle Gillett
Carol Gilligan
Jim Gilligan
Michael Gizzi
Peter Gizzi
The Fabulous Gizzi Brothers
Stephen Glantz
Nancy Goldstone
Yael Goldstein
Richard Greene
Arlo Guthrie
Gerry Hausman
Manfred Hecht
Jeff Herman
Deborah Herman
Mark Hyman
Carol Goodman Kaufman
Joseph Kaufman
Mary Beth Keane
Ben Kilborne
Jamaica Kincaid
Danny Klein
Samara Klein
Frank Lachmann
Michael Lally
Peter Landesman
Jeanne Lemlin
Bernice Lewis
Dick Lipez
Mark Liponis
Paul Lippmann
Anna Lotto
Gerard Malanga
Bernadette Mayer
Charles Mccarry
Edward Mccrorie
Richard Mears
Eve Merriam
Paul Metcalf
Gary Metras
David-Seth Michaels
Jeff Migdow
Marty Moran
Victor Navasky
Donald Oakes
Kevin O’hara
Dean Olsher
Tina Packer
Paul Park
Jim Paul
Peggy Penn
Eve Perera
Jax Lowell Peters
Mark Pettus
Nathaniel Philbrick
Freddy the Pig
Sonia Pilcer
Andy Pincus
Marjorie Pivar
Richard Price
Claudia Ricci
Laurie Robertson-Lorant
Seth Rogovoy
Jon Rosen
Marc Rosenthal
Dennis Ross
Ed Rothstein
Lincoln Russell
Lucille Salatan
William L. Shirer
Christine Siereau
Roberta Silman
Bob Smith
Padraic Spence
Peter Spiegelman
Willard Spiegelman
Maureen Stapleton
Barry Sternlieb
Allison Stokes
John Suiter
Jon Swan
Hudson Talbott
Rose Tannenbaum
Mary Ann Tirone-Smith
Antoine Van Agtmael
Edith Velmans
Loet Velmans
Cody Walker
Lewis Warsh
Laird White
Jan Wiener
Jonathan Wilson
William Yenner
Geoff Young
Genie Zeigel
Peter Kane Dufault

Lots of Books

Justin — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:28:43 +0000