The Surly Bookseller

A weekly-ish look at stuff I had fun doing or finding or thinking about this week, mostly outside the pages of a book.  ***** If...

When I was still making a living as a bookseller I read every book not only for myself but also with my customers in mind. To whom would I b...

I will say -- straight up and unashamed -- that I am stealing this weekly best sort of thing from one of the best bloggers in America today...

I'm just going to cut right to the chase here. If you are already a fan of Jussi Adler-Olsen's Department Q mysteries but have h...

In the early 1990's Alabama's First Couple of Letters was Dennis and Vicki Covington. They were young and beautiful and smart and da...

Y'all remember that old news story about Daddy President George Bush making a trip to the grocery back in 1992, and being filled with w...

My fascination with religious cultures that are different from my own continues, and an endorsement from Julia Spencer-Fleming that thi...