What We're Reading

A brief look at the books we're working through on the shelf right now!

By Julia L. Mickenberg, Philip Nel, Jack Zipes
$32.95
ISBN-13: 9780814757208
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Published: New York University Press, 11/01/2008

Spurred on by my friend's discussion of the logging industry's failed attempt to counter The Lorax with a pro-logging book for kids called The Truax, I've hunkered down with Tales for Little Rebels.  From Oscar the Ostrich to The Sneetches this book is a hilarious rollick through the great radical stories of American history with little tales about the tales to boot!  A rare university press production, this book is actually (a) readable for everyone, (b) entertaining, and (c) worth what it costs.  Step aside Paul Bunyan come on in all ye radicals, this is phenomenal read . . .


By Hal Niedzviecki
$17.95
ISBN-13: 9780872864993
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Published: City Lights Books, 06/01/2009

Going through my advance copy (you can order today because they're coming to us fast!) of this hilarious and painful book takes me back to being a goofy, athletic kid with huge glasses. Everyone thought I knew how to use a computer, so I decided to never learn too much about how they work. Years later, I'm catching up, and I hate it. Our upcoming author's agonizing year of whoring himself out to the highest bidder of shameless online self-promotion is one of the most insightful looks at American internet culture today. Pull back the window-shade and slap a message on Facebook that says, "Kicking back with 'The Peep Diaries' . . . you wish you were here."


Gilead (Paperback)

By Marilynne Robinson
$14.00
ISBN-13: 9780312424404
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Published: Picador, 01/01/2006
In 1956, toward the end of Rev. John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. This is also the tale of wisdom forged during his solitary life and how history lives through generations, pervasively present even when betrayed and forgotten.