Saturday, September 20, 2014

Everything You Wanted to Know About the Books You Heard While Watching Milwaukee TV, Listened to Radio, Read the Paper, or Browsed Websites--Station Eleven, Will it Waffle, The Roosevelts, Ping Pong Diplomacy and Of Course, Body by Simone.

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Let's start with Lake Effect this week. Our event with Elizabeth Gilbert and Bonnie North for The Signature of All Things led to this L...
Friday, September 19, 2014

When You're Doing Five Events with Three Authors, They Are Bound to Eventually Collide--Diesen Meets Perry.

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I'm not going to say I single-handedly worked five events yesterday for three reasons. Firstly, Amie was our bookseller at our Michael...
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Thursday, September 18, 2014

What Makes a City Happy? Charles Montgomery Investigates.

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I have mentioned before how much I love cities--their history, their distinctiveness, and the philosophy behind what makes a good place to l...
Wednesday, September 17, 2014

The Email Newsletter Has Gone Out, The Award Nominations are Coming In for Current and Former Boswell Guests, and I Learn That the Band Survivor Had a Lot of Troubled Relationships, But Idea of March was Relatively Happy.

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1. First of all, I should note that our email newsletter has gone out. Folks who read the blog will get a week ahead on events--there are...
Tuesday, September 16, 2014

New Books from Lawrence Wright, Zephyr Teachout, Christian Rudder, Terrence Holt, and Diane Ackerman

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As you know from the Boswellians post, today is the day that Sarah Waters' The Paying Guests come out, but we're talking up nonficti...
Monday, September 15, 2014

Monday Event Post--Daniel Shumski's Waffles, Chelsea Cain Kicks It, Kevin Miyazaki offers a Re-lake-able Series of Portraits, the Pout Pout Fish Goes to the Library, Michael Perry Does Dystopian, and the UWM English Department Unites in Reading.

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Monday, September 15, 7 pm, at Boswell: Daniel Shumski, author of Will It Waffle?: 53 Unexpected and Irresistible Recipes to Make in a Waf...
Sunday, September 14, 2014

Annotated Boswell Book Company's Sunday Bestsellers, Week Ending September 13, 2014, including Sunday Journal Sentinel Reviews

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Hardcover Fiction: 1. The Liar's Wife, by Mary Gordon 2. The Bone Clocks, by David Mitchell 3. The Long Way Home, by Louise Penny 4....
Saturday, September 13, 2014

Wrapping the Week Up in Words: Book-Related Segments from the Shepherd Express, Urban Milwaukee, OnMilwaukee.com, Lake Effect, Wisconsin Public Radio, and Morning Blend.

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First of all, don't forget to read Friday's post on The Boswellians , where Sharon, Jen, and Carly interview Sarah Waters, author of...