Hark!

This'll be my 50th blog post.  Isn't that fancy?
I like writing these and I guess as long as people keep reading it
then there is a point.  So thanks for reading the blog about
Downtown Books & News.

On November 20th, we will beginning our hosting of the Juniper Bends Reading
Series.   It is expected to be a monthly event, though due to holidays we will
won't having another until early 2010.  Scheduled to come read here will be
UNCA Professor Lori Horvitz, Antonio Del Toro, Shad Marsh, M. Owens, Mesha Maren
and Tamiko Ambrose Murray.  Please come and support your local creative folks
at your local used bookstore.  Starts at seven p.m. and is a free event.

We've had some excellent books come in as of late (no surprise there... not for me
anyways).  Our mysterious friend from Tennessee sold to us some excellent
Chaos Magick type books.
For example --
 
Other authors he brought to us include Draja Mickaharic, Aleister Crowley, Kenneth Feder,
David Rankine, Sorita d'Este, Sylvie Steinbach and one author who just goes by Lupa.
So if you are interested in getting your devil-may-care-thing going, you know where to come.
Here.

Trying to generate a list of all the books that come in here would be incredibly labor intensive, and me I'm just kinda lazy. 
But if you like any of the following, maybe pay us a visit soon
- pottery, metal smithing, young adult books involving fantastic creatures,
fly fishing, Cirque du Soleil, sex, gardening, water gardening, smut, pagan idolatry, baking, flemish painters, Renaissance painters, surrealist painters, painting painters.  We got us some Confederacy of Dunces, some For Whom the Bell Tolls, some Jodi Piccoult, C.S. Lewis, and a smattering of Ursula LeGuin, even have a couple Cormac McCarthys hanging around right now (ohh they go so quick).   Mushrooms.  Did you hear me? (see me actually)  We have books on mushrooms.  Boletti.  I dunno, we got lots
of stuff.  I ain't lying.  Come prove me wrong.

I think I'm coming down with something.  I got like a mussel living on the back of my throat.



I've been working that angle for years.
 


Dam fine cover art on this one.  Published by McSweeney's.  having not read it, I can't speak to how good of a book it is, but it was blurbed by the author of Geek Love, Katherine Dunn so that says something.  Unless of course you did not read Geek Love.
Then it says nothing.  You should read Geek Love.  It will make you all warm and fuzzy
inside.
Favorite magazine right now -



Dude, the element, like from the periodic table?  Bizmuth?
Bizmuth is totally tripped out


 
Hate books?  Magazines send you into a bloodthirsty frenzy?
Think newspapers are dumb? 
We can still hook you up.
Listen here, our DVD selection which admittedly had been looking pretty flimsy, in the last two days has become morbidly obese with variety.  So bring your grumpy non-book reading self down here and hook up a dvd and a chocolate bar.
Chocolate loves you.  Yes it does.

Here is the Goatman.  If you see him, run.



thanks for reading our 50th blog.
Have a week of sweetness.


Julian @ DBN