Mistakes Have Been Made!

1. I am worried about my decision to move Dan Maguire's event for Ethics: A Complete Method for Moral Choice to next Wednesday, February 17th, at 7 PM. In the early afternoon, it looked like there was no place to park and lots of areas that hadn't been cleared. By evening, things were better and despite sending out notices, we had a number of people show up. We gave them a $5 coupon with a $25 purchase (that's one hardcover book or a trade paperback and something else, not a bad deal) with my apologies.

Of course next Wednesday is Ash Wednesday, a day of obligation. I know you can also go to church in the morning, but is my event on Christian ethics by a Marquette professor going to wreak havoc with some folks' worship? My fault again. I'm hoping it's easy to do both, and it's certainly a timely talk.

2. Dan Kois' talk for Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's Facing Future was listed correctly on our email and event calendar, but actually got listed at the wrong time on Facebook and our web site. The correct info is Sunday, February 21st, 2 PM. This is that wonderful book in the 33 1/3 series, documenting this one album in the life of one of Hawaii's most beloved singers. You know, the late singer with the ukelele arrangement of "Over the Rainbow" that Jason Castro covered on "American Idol."

There's another mixup that involves a press release, but I think a targeted apology and correction is appropriate in that case. So I'm not going to bring it up. Oops, too late.

Tonight is Martin Jack Rosenblum and Dave Luhrssen, along with guitarist Brian Thomas Carlson, for a talk on the third edition of Searching for Rock and Roll. It starts at 7 PM. I don't think there are any errors in that statement!

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I just taped a segment with Lake Effect's Stephanie Lecci. Catch me on Tuesday on 89.7. Here's the link to their site.

New Date for Dan Maguire's Ethics Event

Breaking news! Due to the residue of snowfall last night, we're moving Daniel Maguire's event for his well-received book on ethics (it's called Ethics: A Complete Method for Moral Choice, by the way) to next Wednesday, February 17th, at 7 PM.

It's not that it's still storming here. It's that with the weather emergency not lifted, and some areas not fully plowed, you can't find a place to park!

If this were a traveling author and they made it to town, we'd keep the event in place. But we really want to give Professor Maguire (Christian ethics, Marquette University) the best event we can, and since he's local, we can juggle a bit. And that involves letting people park their cars.

So to repeat, the new event date and time for Daniel Maguire
Wednesday, February 17th, 7 PM
at Boswell Book Company.

School Me Up!--Great Talks This Week from Daniel Maguire and Martin Jack Rosenblum/Dave Luhrssen

This week we're hosting folks who've written books that are mostly used in the classroom, but that doesn't mean they don't have interesting things to say. In fact, aren't they really packaged as the perfect lecture?

On Wednesday, February 10th, Marquette Professor of Christian ethics Daniel Maguire is giving a talk inspired by the new edition of his book Ethics: A Complete Method for Moral Choice.

And on Friday, February 12th, esteemed lecturers Martin Jack Rosenblum and Dave Luhrssen are appearing with guitarist Brian Thomas Carlson for an event celebrating their new edition of Searching for Rock and Roll.

Both books are available at our store for sale. I'm not sure if Searching for Rock and Roll is in our database, but you can always email us to order a copy.

Here's a link to the event page on our web site, which, oddly enough, sort of indicates that these are our events from last November. But don't believe us. We're still getting the hang of this stuff, and programming our web site seems to be one of our most challenging tasks. Sadly, we've all graduated from high school, which makes it harder.

And here's the archive to our most recent email newsletter, which includes a little more about both events, and some interesting links.

Just for comparison, this is a link to UWM's rate sheet for courses. Look, I also found information about Marquette's tuition. It's almost like a have a teenage child. As you can see, these talks are a much better deal. With those savings, you should buy the books from us too and take notes.