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We still have our biggest selection ever
of brand new calendars--all 10 to 35% off the
publisher's price. Come get yours now. Once
they're gone, we won't have more until 2009.
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We've got a lot of great poets coming to the
store coming up. If you like your verse
free, you'll love these events.
AT 7:30pm on January 11, three poets from the
Minnesota
writers collective Northography--Tim J.
Brennan, Suzanne Nielsen, and Denise
duMaurier--will read from their new work. You
can find their full biographies here.
Sunday, January 20 at 5:00pm, we're pleased
to host another series of readings by winners
of our "What Light" poetry contest. Each
quarter, well-known judges select the 13 best
poems from the hundreds of poems entered.
Each winning poem appears on the sponsors'
website for a week. Each quarter, winners and
judges are invited to read at Magers and
Quinn. A list of this quarter's readers will
be available shortly. An anthology
of the first year's winners has been
published and is available at Magers and
Quinn and at the Walker.
And mark your calendars for Monday, February
11. At 7:30pm John Minczeski, award-winning
local poet, will read from his newest work.
He's the author of four poetry collections,
the editor of three anthologies, and his
poems have appeared in journals around the US
and abroad, including Poetry East,
Quarterly West, Agni, Meridian, Pleiades,
Free Lunch, Nowa Okolica Poetow, and
elsewhere.
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If your post-holiday budget is saying you can't
afford a wall safe, Make
magazine's video podcast shows you how to
make a book into a secret hiding place for
your small valuables.
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Resolve to get out more. Here are
just two of the the fascinating events coming
up this month to lure you from your winter den.
 Thursday,
Jan. 10, 7:30pmFighter, author, singer (for Oxbow), Eugene Robinson discusses Fight: Or, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ass-Kicking But Were Afraid You'd Get Your Ass Kicked for Asking Robinson's book is a highly opinionated,
idiosyncratic look
at fighting in all its forms and glory.
Robinson's narrative-told in his trademark
tough-guy, stream-of-consciousness noir
voice-punctuates this explanatory compendium
of the fighting world. From wrestling,
Brazilian jiu-jitsu, boxing and muay thai to
bar fighting, knife fighting, prison
fighting, and hockey fighting, from the
greatest (and worst) movie fight scenes, the
best sports brawls, and an inside look at
soccer hooligans to how to throw the perfect
left hook, Fight
is an edgy and interesting illustrated book
that reads as good as it looks.
 Friday, Jan.
25, 7:30pmLater in the month, we highlight fighting of a different kind--politics. Glenn Hurowitz will be in the store to discuss Fear and Courage in the Democratic Party At the height of election season, Fear and Courage in the Democratic Party chronicles the extraordinary stories of five politicians and activists: three "progressive heroes" who exhibited rare political courage - and through it found unexpected political success, and two "spineless weasels" who embraced The Politics of Fear and rode it to ultimate failure. |
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2007 went out with a bang for us. We sold a
lot of new books. Here are our Uptown
Bestsellers for the month of December.
Fiction
 1. Out
Stealing Horses2. The Road 3. No Country for Old Men 4. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 5. Water for Elephants 6. No One Belongs Here More Than You 7. The Kite Runner 8. Holidays on Ice 9. Atonement 10. Suite Francaise Non-Fiction
 1. Eat,
Pray, Love2. Omnivore's Dilemma 3. Stumbling on Happiness 4. This I Believe 5. I Am America (And So Can You!) 6. Windows of Brimnes 7. The Dog Says How 8. Dangerous Book for Boys 9. Transit Maps of the World 10. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle |
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Dedicated readers of the M&Q newsletter,
we've heard your calls. Now, at last, all our
past newsletters are available for you to
read and enjoy all over again. Relive the
highlights of the past year and a half, any
time you choose.
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 This just might be the world's most beautiful
bookstore. It's an eight-hundred-year-old
converted Dominican church in Maastricht, in
the Netherlands. Today it's part of the Selexyz
chain. Best of all, it's an English-language
bookstore, so if you get the chance to visit,
you can take home a souvenir you can actually
read.
Check out thecoolhunter.net
for more photos.
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The next meeting of the Twin Cities' most
unusual and interesting book club is Tuesday,
January 8. Books & Bars meets at
Bryant-Lake Bowl, 810 W Lake Street, in
Minneapolis. Doors open at 6:00pm; the
discussion begins at 7:00pm.
 January's book is Stumbling
on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert.Gilbert, who
works in what he calls happiness studies,
explores the question of why humans as a
group are so bad at predicting what will
actually make us happy. A partial
explanation: "When we have an experience . .
. on successive occasions, we quickly begin
to adapt to it, and the experience yields
less pleasure each time," he writes.
"Psychologists calls this habituation,
economists call it declining marginal
utility, and the rest of us call it
marriage." To get the full story, you'll have
to read the book, but you can read the first
chapter here
to get started immediately.
Books &
Bars is not your typical book club. We
provide a unique atmosphere for a lively
discussion of interesting authors, fun
people, good food and drinks. You're welcome
even if you haven't read the book.
PS: Check out the StarTribune's
article
about Books and Bars. They loved it!
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There's always something new at Magers & Quinn. Stop in today or check our inventory on our website any time. We'll be back next month with more book news.
Until then,
David Enyeart
Magers and Quinn Booksellers
Write us:
info@magersandquinn.com
Call us:
612/822-4611
Or visit our website:
http://www.magersandquinn.com
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