Monthly Archives: April 2005

Lots o links

I’ve managed to catch up on some reading today:

Michael Dirda answered reader questions about bookstores at the Washington Post (my store gets mentioned several times!).

Dan Wickett, who must never sleep, interviewed Ron Rash, author of Saint at the River and also winner of the O. Henry award for his short story “Speckled Trout”.
Dan also interviewed independent bookseller Corey Mesler, who owns and operates Burke’s Books in Memphis.
And he also ran a panel with more bloggers.

Robert Birnbaum interviewed Tom Bissell, author of the just released collection of stories God Lives in St. Petersburg and Other Stories and Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia.

Moving update

Back again. Phew, moving really sucks. The move itself went fine, die to the fact that we hired 2 guys and a truck. There was no way I was moving my 40 or so boxes of books (I actually never counted the boxes but there were enough, believe me). Arranging a new house takes forever. Thanks to everyone for all the kind words about the NYT article and the move. And don’t be offened if I don’t get back to you right away. Part of the problem is that we have no internet at home and we won’t have it back for at least a week! Man, have I missed you, internet! We are dumping Comcast (hate them!) in favor of Verizon, but they are slow with the sending of the modem. So I will be posting throughout the week and will even try to get up the Globe review review.