Jun 27, 2022 | Bookstores, Current Ned Note, On Books, Past Notes
The best YA books on the autistic experience/outsider experiences. I have some recommendations — published in Shepherd, the Best Books recommendation magazine. We all have important stories to tell. So my mission in life is to tell stories from many different...
Oct 11, 2020 | Bookstores, Current Ned Note, On Books, Past Notes
Read my books at BookBar Read more BOOKSTORE POSTS I’m excited that Denver’s wonderful BookBar is re-opening on October 11, 2020, after a summer of sad pandemic closure. (The store, of course, is re-configuring itself for pandemic-safe browsing.) BookBar...
Nov 11, 2019 | Bookstores, Current Ned Note, On Books, Past Notes
Read my books at Shakespeare & Co. Read more BOOKSTORE POSTS One year ago, I had the distinct pleasure of visiting perhaps the most famous independent bookstore in the world with my daughter. Shakespeare and Company is the marvelous English-language bookshop in...
May 22, 2018 | Bookstores, Current Ned Note, Past Notes
Find my books at Next Chapter Books Read more BOOKSTORE POSTS Next Chapter Booksellers is a wonderful little bookstore in St. Paul, Minnesota. In the mid-2000s, I was in Minnesota for graduate school and I worked on the Macalester College campus as a part-time job...
May 9, 2018 | Bookstores, Current Ned Note, Past Notes
Find my books at Ada’s Technical Books Read more BOOKSTORE POSTS In the early 2000s, a blusterous tech guy I knew in Seattle went to work for Amazon. Shortly afterwards, I had coffee with my old friend, and he proceeded to tell me how the future of books...
Apr 30, 2018 | Bookstores, Current Ned Note, Past Notes
If you are a connoisseur of bookstores, like I am, then you might find this to be an unusual post, because despite my previous posts praising the shining stars of the indie book world — mainstays like Kepler’s in Silicon Valley, Powell’s in Portland,...
