Reagan Arthur Books

Congratulations to Eowyn Ivey! Her book THE SNOW CHILD was a...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:02:00 -0400

Congratulations to Eowyn Ivey! Her book THE SNOW CHILD was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

Meet Kate Atkinson when she hits the road for LIFE AFTER LIFE. ...

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 13:52:49 -0400

Meet Kate Atkinson when she hits the road for LIFE AFTER LIFE. Check the store website before you go-a few of the events have been moved to off-site venues!

4/16 Brooklyn, NY

Community Bookstore

4/17 New York, NY

Barnes & Noble Upper East Side

4/18 Naperville, IL

Anderson’s Bookshop

4/19 Milwaukee, WI

Boswell Books

4/20: Wichita, KS

Watermarks

4/21: Austin, TX

Book People

4/22: Beaverton, OR

Powell’s Beaverton

4/23: Pasadena, CA

Vroman’s

4/24: Corte Madera, CA

Book Passage

4/25: Half Moon Bay, CA

Bay Book Company

-MB

storyboard: The Last Book I Loved: ‘The Unnamed’ The Last Book...

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:07:38 -0400

storyboard:

The Last Book I Loved: ‘The Unnamed’

The Last Book I Loved is an ongoing series with The Rumpus to highlight emerging Tumblr writers (and the books they love). Want to have your essay considered? Submit it here.

When you go to the website for Joshua Ferris’s 2010 novel, The Unnamed, your screen fills with static for a second. Then it resolves into a grainy gray video of the main hall of Grand Central Terminal, like security camera footage, commuters walking to and from their trains. And then fuzzy blue circles appear over a handful of heads. When you click on one, the video pauses, and a small text bubble comes up. One says, “I look around, I wonder if I’m just sick.” Another quotes a poem by Percy Shelley. “Art thou pale for weariness / Of climbing heaven and gazing on earth/Wandering companionless / Among the stars that have a different birth.” They feel like a little of what each person has inside them, a bit of story or sorrow they keep inside themselves.

This is what Joshua Ferris’s work is — a song of this secret world. He writes about the isolation of modern life, our disconnect from the world at large and from the people around us. And he writes of the small, beautiful hopes of connection — through love, through hope, through body-breaking exertions.

Read More

“I can say that when the box full of finished copies arrived recently at my house, I did kind...

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 10:02:00 -0500

“I can say that when the box full of finished copies arrived recently at my house, I did kind...

A Valentine’s Day eCard for anyone who’s ever dated...

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 09:43:31 -0500

A Valentine’s Day eCard for anyone who’s ever dated someone with flaws. From THE LAST GIRLFRIEND ON EARTH by Simon Rich.

It’s Ursula Todd’s birthday! Celebrate with us by...

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 09:08:11 -0500

It’s Ursula Todd’s birthday! Celebrate with us by sharing this birthday card.

11 February 1910

An icy rush of air, a freezing slipstream on the newly exposed skin. She is, with no warning, outside the inside and the familiar wet, tropical world has suddenly evaporated. Exposed to the elements. A prawn peeled. A nut shelled.

No breath. All the world come down to this. One breath.

Little lungs, like dragonfly wings failing to inflate in the foreign atmosphere. No wind in the strangled pip. The buzzing of a thousand bees in the tiny curled pearl of an ear.

Panic. The drowning girl, the falling bird.

We recommend that you read THE SNOW CHILD by Eowyn Ivey on your...

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 14:23:05 -0500

We recommend that you read THE SNOW CHILD by Eowyn Ivey on your snow day.

What are your literary plans for the day?

Best. Day. Ever.

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:33:28 -0500

Today it was announced that our own beloved, adored, treasured Reagan Arthur will be the publisher...

slaughterhouse90210: “She was like a comic book villain: by...

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 10:46:01 -0500

slaughterhouse90210:

“She was like a comic book villain: by looking at me calmly she she’d obliterated any trace of my intelligence or charm or wit—really, any trace of my personality.”
—Stuart Nadler, Wise Men

Eowyn Ivey's THE SNOW CHILD is a Discover Award finalist!

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 15:15:54 -0500

The title says it all: our beloved Eowyn Ivey’s wonderful debut, THE SNOW CHILD, is one of...

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to our Endpapers

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:57:25 -0500

Last week I was hunting around online for the right image to use as endpapers in Kate Atkinson’s...

"Organized religion may be one way to find an understanding of the world, but reading fiction is mine."

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 19:09:00 -0500

The always thoughtful and wise Claire Cameron reviews Colm Toibin’s THE TESTAMENT OF MARY for...

This week Simon Rich’s new novella “Sell Out” is being...

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:52:04 -0500

This week Simon Rich’s new novella “Sell Out” is being serialized on newyorker.com. It’s the story of Simon Rich’s great-great-grandfather, who falls into a pickle barrel and emerges, one hundred years later, into hipster Brooklyn. On the podcast this week, Simon Rich reads excerpts from the first installment, and then talks with Susan Morrison about the inspiration for his novella, his experiences writing for Saturday Night Live, and his love of the comedic premise, as practiced by Roald Dahl, T. C. Boyle, Douglas Adams, Kurt Vonnegut, and others.

SEATTLE MYSTERY BOOKSHOP: Ian Rankin - Standing in Another Man’s Grave

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 10:01:22 -0500

SEATTLE MYSTERY BOOKSHOP: Ian Rankin - Standing in Another Man’s Grave :...

The news of STANDING IN ANOTHER MAN’S GRAVE hitting the...

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 10:35:25 -0500

The news of STANDING IN ANOTHER MAN’S GRAVE hitting the New York Times Bestseller list made us jump for joy this week. Reagan has been publishing Ian for 20 years in the US. Thank you for your support!

-MRP

Ian Rankin: US tour: to know him is to love him

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:45:49 -0500

Ian Rankin is coming to a store near you! Meet and cavort with a brilliant, funny writer...

Better than a P.O. Box

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 10:41:38 -0500

The Wall Street Journal recently revealed that if you write a letter to “Ian Rankin,...

Sara Nelson wants Kate Atkinson

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 12:01:07 -0500

From her Omnivoracious post “Sara Says: All I Want for New Years is… Kate Atkinson: Life...

“We” meaning “everyone here at RAB”...

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 14:51:54 -0500

“We” meaning “everyone here at RAB” agree with bookavore: Kate Atkinson is mightily awesome, and this cat should learn to read before passing judgment. Back to the litterbox with ye!

bookavore:

catshatereading:

Jiaozi hates Life After Life by Kate Atkinson, which is stupid of her, because some of us are already pretty sure it’s one of the best books of 2013.

And by “some of us” I mean “me” and also half of the people at the library at this point. It is rushing through our ranks like wildfire.

(Whilst waiting for the new Atkinson, read the first Atkinson to prepare, I think. I had never read it before and it astonished me but then the new one was EVEN BETTER so GET READY)

And Valentine's Day come extra early at RAB!

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 12:42:27 -0500

This in the form of Simon Rich’s hilarious and touching new story collection THE LAST...