| Shop Search |
|
|||
|
|||
|
From the New York Times, “All this said, “Punching Out” is frequently rewarding. Mr. Clemens traces the colorful history of the Budd plant, which manufactured parts for a variety of car brands and which once employed nearly 10,000 people. He is a lovely, mournful observer of Detroit’s people.”
|
|||
|
|||
|
Tags: Author Signing, Baldwin library, book beat events, Detroit book signings, Detroit literature, Paul Clemens Posted in: Author signings, Book Beat / Shop history, General | No Comments » |
t book, Punching Out: One Year in a Closing Auto Plant. This is Clemens’ second book on Detroit, his first being Made in Detroit and it concerns the loss of manufacturing and the working class in Detroit and America.
Books will be available for sale at the Baldwin Library, 300 W Merrill St, Birmingham, MI 48009. Call 248-968-1190 for more information.
|
|||
|
|||
|
Frost is known for introducing poetry to children in an enjoyable way through captivating stories featuring strong female characters and unusual poetic structures. Diamond Willow is a novel in verse with each page of text in the shape of a diamond and it is being read in Baldwin’s Battle of the Books program. This is a great chance to meet and listen to a very talented author who’s lived an exciting life, teaching school in Alaska and Scotland as well as being the author of books of poetry, fiction and drama for children and adults. This event will be at the Baldwin Public Library in the Lower Level, 300 West Merrill, Birmingham Mi, 48009. Book Beat will be there with a selection of books written by Frost for sale and Frost will speak and autograph books. Please call 248-968-1190 for more information or to reserve a title to be signed. |
|||
|
|||
| Posted in: Author signings, Book Beat / Shop history | No Comments » |
|
|||
|
|||
|
A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe
The Reading Group will meet Wed., June 1st at 7pm in the Goldfish Teahouse (117 W. 4th St., in downtown Royal Oak). Copies of the reading group selection are discounted 15% at the Book Beat. (this is actually our May meeting moved up to June 1st) All are welcome! Book Beat’s May reading group book is A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe. Oe was the winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature. A Personal Matter is a novel based on the author’s experience coming to terms with his son’s mental disability. “[A Personal Matter] owes obvious debts to Kierkegaard: the search for—and confrontation with—the self. Its urban surroundings, the classless misfits that populate it, and its vivid sexual descriptions make it seem socially and thematically similar to its Occidental counterparts.”—James Toback, The New York Times Book Review |
|||
|
|||
| Posted in: Award winning books, Book Beat / Shop history, Philosophy, Reading, Reading Group | No Comments » |
|
|||
|
|||
|
“A clairvoyant of the small” W. G. Sebald calls Robert Walser, one of his favorite writers in the world, in his acutely beautiful, personal, and long introduction, studded with his signature use of photographs. “The incredible shrinking writer is a major twentieth-century prose artist who…can be placed in that comic tradition [that] runs from Gogol through Kafka and down to José Saramago . . . . When Walser met Lenin in Zurich during the war, all he had to say was ‘So you, too, like fruitcake?’ . . . It is remarkable to see what variety and richness what easiness and charm, what winsome inanities and philosophical depths he could pack into half a page.” |
|||
|
|||
| Posted in: Book Beat / Shop history, Reading Group | No Comments » |
|
|||
|
|||
CELEBRATE SAINT JORDI DAY FRIDAY APRIL 23rd
Buy a rose or a book for a loved one, sample fine wine, party and meet people. Saint Jordi day is a Spanish tradition that begins on Friday, April 23rd, 2010 from 8-10 pm We will have a great selection of poetry and quality literature, gift books and many bargain priced remainders. There will be books, wine tasting, food and more. SPRING FIESTA! Sanit Jordi Day will also be celebrated at the Ferndale Public Libary on Sunday, April 18th from 2PM-7 PM. This will be a wonderful pre-Saint Jordi celebration with Michigan authors, readings and more! Our friends at ELIE WINES in Royal Oak brought the first St. Jordi day celebration to Book Beat in 2006. It was an enthusiastic success, with Catalan poetry being read and delicious wines sampled, roses and books were joyously given away. This “World Day of the Book” with its Spanish origins and its link to romance and love, is something we at Book Beat and Elie Wines have continued to celebrate as a yearly tradition here in the Detroit area. In Barcelona; almost 5 million roses will exchange hands and much kissing will take place. Very nice tradition.April 23 is a symbolic day in world literature. Declared as International Day of the Book by UNESCO in 1995, this celebration of books and literature draws it’s inspiration from a Catalan tradition, the Festival of the Rose. Legend has it that Saint George, Patron Saint of Catalonia and international knight-errant, slew a dragon about to devour a beautiful Catalan princess. From the dragon’s blood sprouted a rosebush, from which the hero plucked the prettiest rose for the princess. Hence the traditional Rose Festival celebrated in Barcelona since the Middle Ages to honor chivalry and love. In 1923, this lover’s “festa” became even more poetic when it merged with “el dia del llibre”, or The Day of the Book, to mark the nearly simultaneous deaths of Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare, the two giants of literary history, on April 23, 1616. |
|||
|
|||
| Posted in: Book Beat / Shop history, Bookstores | 13 Comments » |
|
|||
|
|||
Friday, October 16th: David Small at Book Beat – 7:00PMThis event has ended, but we do have some signed first editions of STITCHES still available – New York Times #1 bestseller, and just nominated for the National Book Award, please call or order soon! View a cinematic look inside the pages of STITCHES: Caldecott Award winning artist and author David Small will be presenting his highly acclaimed new graphic novel style memoir STITCHES at the Book Beat Friday, October 16th, from 7-8:30 PM. STITCHES is a deep look into the author’s often painful past, filled with memories and scenes of growing up in the Detroit area. Truly one of the highlights of this fall’s list, STITCHES is an adult graphic memoir/ black-comedy that is both hilarious and sad, surreal and grotesquely too real. David has prepared a special slideshow presentation and we will moderate a discussion that is not to be missed. Please welcome David Small back to his hometown that has filled him with an abundance of energy, inspiration and creativity.
David Small evokes the mad scientific world of the 1950s beautifully, a time when everyone believed that science could fix everything….Capturing body language and facial expressions subtly, Stitches becomes in Small’s skillful hands a powerful story, an emotionally charged autobiography. (Robert Crumb ) “Stitches is as intensely dramatic as a woodcut novel of the silent movie era and as fluid as a contemporary Japanese manga. It breaks new ground for graphic novels.” -Françoise Mouly, Art Editor of The New Yorker Small earned the 1997 Caldecott Honor and The Christopher Medal for The Gardener, with Sarah Stewart, his wife, recipient of the 2007 Michigan Author Award. In 2001 he won the Caldecott Medal for So You Want to Be President?, combining political cartooning with children’s book illustration. Small’s drawings have appeared in the New Yorker and the New York Times. David Small and Sarah Stewart make their home in an historic manor house in Mendon, Michigan. |
|||
|
|||
| Posted in: Author signings, Author/artist interviews and lectures, Award winning books, Book Beat / Shop history | No Comments » |
| Catalogs Sitemap | Shipping Policy | Privacy & Security | Shop Statement | Contact |