The Surly Bookseller

Where in the world have I been??? I don't expect that you've asked that, but I just realized that I'd slipped up and failed t...

In 1992 I traveled to New Orleans to attend the Midsouth Booksellers' convention, courtesy of my bosses at the bookstore. There were tw...

I took a couple of days off last week for a trip with my granddaughter, and it threw me so utterly off my schedule for everything. Of course...

I have never fancied myself much of a cook. I say that out of no false modesty. Until a couple years ago it was something I didn't like ...

We had a really nice family dinner a few nights ago. All the adults at the table are in various stages of making healthy changes to our die...

You'd be surprised, probably, to find out how many bestselling books I never got around to reading when I was a bookseller. The reason w...

I suppose as long as there are those whose life's calling it is to insure that wrongdoers are brought to justice there will always...