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A surprisingly quiet month at our local B&N's, especially the USQ mothership. Here are some February 2012 bookstore events that looked interesting to me for one reason or another. Barnes & Noble New York 02/02 Mike Doughty: The Book of Drugs A Memoir (Tri) 02/06 Tom Santopietro: The Godfather Effect (86th & Lex) 02/07 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: What Color Is My World? (Tri) 02/07 Elaine Hall: Seven Keys to Unlock Autism (86th & Lex) 02/14 Dave Isay: All There Is Love Stories from StoryCorps (82nd & Bway) [...]

Merry New Year everyone! Here's a few (amazingly, this month was more barren than the last) January 2012 bookstore events that looked interesting to me for one reason or another. Barnes & Noble New York 01/03 Lisa Niemi Swayze: Worth Fighting For (86th & Lex) 01/03 Winifred Gallagher: New (82nd & Bway) 01/10 Jennifer Hudson: I Got This (5th Ave) 01/10 William Gibson: Distrust That Particular Flavor (USQ) 01/10 James C. Hormel: Fit to Serve (82nd & Bway) 01/11 Dave Barry, Alan Zweibel w/ Susie Essman: Lunatics [...]

As we head full steam ahead into the holiday season, it's mostly tumbleweeds at our local booksellers. Here's a few December events that looked interesting to me for one reason or another. B&N Dec 2011 Events 12/01 Bernadette Peters and the Cast of Follies with Special Guest Stephen Sondheim (86th & Lex) 12/01 Bobby Flay (USQ) 12/01 Conversations with Clint: Paul Nelson's Lost Interviews with Clint Eastwood, 1979-1983 (Park Slope) 12/06 Colin Quinn: Long Story Short DVD (Tri) 12/07 Stephen Sondheim in conversation w/ Anna Quindlen (USQ) 12/07 [...]

multiple sources claiming to be Barnes & Noble employees are reporting that kiosks and other retail goodies are showing up in bookstores ahead of a November 7th launch. That would put the Nook Color 2 on retail shelves a week before Kindle Fires begin shipping out from Amazon. An anonymous B&N employee tells The Digital Reader that his or her store is building a huge new display in the center of the store especially for the Nook tablets and e-readers. Spotlight, LCD TVs, touch screen demonstration kiosks, the works. A manager told him or her to expect a [...]

Photos by G. Nile Rodgers October 20, 2011 was a night I've been looking forward to for a very long time. It was the night Nile Rodgers stopped by Barnes and Noble in Union Square in Manhattan to discuss and sign copies of his autobiography "Le Freak - An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco and Destiny." It's pretty safe to say that anyone who has ever heard pop music likes at least one song he's written or produced. His list of accomplishments is [...]

The Marriage Plot - Jeffrey Eugenides It's October and the holiday season has officially arrived. Check out this list of October 2011 literary, comedic and musical events that I found interesting for one reason or another. Barnes & Noble October 2011 Events (NYC) 10/03 Eric Carle: The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse (USQ) 10/04 Jeffrey Sachs: The Price of Civilization:(82nd & Bway) 10/04 Julianne Moore: Freckleface Strawberry Best Friends Forever (86th & Lex) 10/05 Stephen Greenblatt: The Swerve How the [...]

And we're back! Check out this list of September 2011 literary, comedic and musical events that I found interesting for one reason or another. Barnes & Noble September 2011 Events (NYC) 09/06 Granta 116: Ten Years Later - Peter Carey, Phil Klay, Samantha Smith (86th & Lex) 09/06 Perez Hilton - The Boy with the Pink Hair (USQ) 09/07 Lucette Lagnado - The Arrogant Years (82nd & Bway) 09/07 Moby - Destroyed (USQ) 09/07 Tom Perrotta - The Leftovers (86th & Lex) 09/12 Julie Salamon - Wendy [...]

Wildwood: The Wildwood Chronicles Decemberists front man Colin Meloy can add "young adult author" to his resume when his new book, Wildwood , is released on August 30 . I added the "young adult" qualifier, because this book is actually not Colin's first foray into the world of publishing, some folks might remember that he previously penned a volume in the 33 1/3 series about The Replacements Let It Be . In support of this [...]

"It's August and the pickins are slim." (Even slimmer now that Borders is gone .) Here's a list of August 2011 literary, comedic and musical events that I found interesting for one reason or another. Barnes & Noble 08/08/11 Catching Heat - Jim Leyritz (Tri) 08/09/11 Composed - Rosanne Cash (USQ) 08/09/11 Live at B&N Featuring Tom Wopat (86th and Lex) 08/10/11 Prime Time - Jane Fonda (USQ) 08/18/11 Clubhouse Confidential - Luis "Squeegee" Castillo (86th and Lex) 08/18/11 Hire Me, Hollywood! - Keith Fenimore [...]

I'm sorry, but I still find the news that the Nook Color has become the most popular e-reader, supplanting anything that Amazon offers to be factually incorrect. Of course, this makes me like one of those people that doesn't believe in evolution or the dinosaurs despite mounting evidence to the contrary. With that said, if you make a claim, you need to provide numbers to back it up and none of the articles that make the claim that the Nook Color has passed the Kindle in sales has any factual support. Here [...]

Here's a list of July 2011 literary and musical events that I found interesting for one reason or another. Barnes and Noble NYC 07/05 Sapphire: The Kid, Imani Uzuri and Dance Theater of Harlem (USQ) 07/06 Diane Farr: Kissing Outside the Lines (Tri) 07/07 Loudon Wainwright III: 40 Odd Years (Performance/Signing - USQ) 07/11 Lila Azam Zanganeh: The Enchanter Nabokov and Happiness (86th & Lex) 07/12 Jennifer Weiner: Then Came You (USQ) 07/13 Henry Winkler: I've Never Met an Idiot on the River (USQ) 07/13 Erica Jong, [...]

It's summer and things have slowed down considerably at our local bookstores in terms of both quantity and quality (I'm only showing the pearls here of course). Here's a list of June 2011 literary and musical events that I found interesting for one reason or another. Barnes & Noble Stores NYC 06/01 Barbara Sinatra: Lady Blue Eyes (USQ) 06/06 Oscar Hijuelos: Thoughts Without Cigarettes (82nd & Bway) 06/07 Ann Patchett: State of Wonder (USQ) 06/07 Sugar Ray Leonard: Big Fight (5th Ave) 06/07 Bruce Eric Kaplan: Everything Is Going [...]

Nobody will every accuse BN of dragging their feet when it comes to the e-reader game. From This is My Next : Barnes & Noble just announced its all-new Nook, with an E Ink screen and zero shenanigans. It's being subtitled "The Simple Touch Reader," with a single 6-inch black and white touchscreen. There's obviously no physical keyboard, which shaves off 10 percent of the "bulk" in comparison to the Kindle 3. Barnes & Noble also made sure to drive other points of comparison home, like "80 percent less flashing" (that black screen flash that [...]

If you read between the lines of recent essays between Jason Kottke and Tim Carmody, it becomes pretty clear that Apple's only potential competition in the tablet market will likely come from Amazon, using a modified version of Google's Android software. Kottke lays out a pretty good blueprint for how a company can compete with Apple, basically coming down to a company needing to incorporate cloud services, a more streamlined method for delivering media content than iTunes, and incorporating some element of "social" into the product. Amazon essentially [...]

With the exception of Tina Fey , Mo Willems in Park Slope(!) and maybe Mrs. Chris Martin , not a lot jumped out at me this month. Here's a list of April 2011 bookstore events that I found interesting for one reason or another. B&N April 2011 Events 04/05 Meg Wolitzer: The Uncoupling; Mary Gordon: The Love of My Youth (86th & Lex) 04/05 Anne Lamott: Imperfect Birds (Tri) 04/05 Caroline Kennedy, Sharon Olds: She Walks in Beauty (USQ) 04/06 Ashley Judd: All Things Bitter and [...]

March 2011 NYC Bookstore Events Wow, this has to be one of the most amazing months for bookstore events in recent memory. Here's a list of a bunch of things I found interesting for one reason or another. Barnes & Noble March 2011 03/01 Alan Paul: Big In China (Tri) 03/01 Gabrielle Hamilton, Anthony Bourdain: Blood, Bones and Butter The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef (USQ) 03/01 Chang-rae Lee: The Surrendered (86th & Lex) 03/02 Meredith Baxter, Joy Behar: [...]

Neko Case Photo : Jon Klemm ( more ) I know I just ran down all the January 2011 B&N and Borders events, but I figured this February reading/performance deserved a special shout out of its own. On February 24, 2011 comedian/actor/director/author Michael Showalter will read from his new book, Mr. Funny Pants and solo artist/New Pornographers member Neko Case will perform songs from her 2009 album Middle Cyclone at Barnes & Noble Union Square. In [...]

Like its year end predecessor, January is a bit of a slow month at our local big box book stores, here are a few things I found interesting for one reason or another. Barnes & Noble January 2011 Events 01/05/11 Sean Yseult: I'm In the Band (Tribeca) 01/10/11 Sam Tanenhaus, Jennifer Egan, Siddhartha Mukherjee: The New York Times Best Books of the Year 2010 (86th & Lex) 01/11/11 Brad Meltzer: The Inner Circle (USQ) 01/11/11 Eric Alterman: Kabuki Democracy (82nd & Bway) 01/12/11 Spike Lee: Giant Steps to Change [...]

It's a pretty lean month for readings, especially at the big box stores, but some of the indies have stepped up and bagged a few big names just in time for the holiday season. Here's a list of December 2010 book store events that I found interesting for one reason or another: Barnes & Noble December 2010 Events (NYC) 12/01 Zadie Smith (86th & Lex) 12/01 Anne Rice (Tribeca) 12/05 Peter Yarrow (86th & Lex) 12/07 Steve Harvey (5th Ave) 12/08 Ken Burns (86th & Lex) 12/08 John [...]

Justin Bieber hit the streets of New York City last Friday to greet fans at a Barnes and Noble for a book signing to promote his debut release "Justin Bieber: First Step 2 Forever". The pop singer went on Twitter to talk about his experience saying "At the book and cd signing and this is incredible. my fans are the most loyal passionate people ever. Super Grateful. thank u." They originally only let 1000 people in but ended up accommodating 1000 more. Justin later tweeted "We got alot more people to see… im not leaving until i keep my promise. [...]