March Literature and Culture updates

Boston Review's March issue, Arizona Failed State.  Will it be as good as the January article on Amazon's market share and publishers?


More optimistically titled is Small Changes Big Results for the World's Poor.

 

Paris Review, that classic literary journal, always in demand.  Cheerful spring colors, Ann Beattie and Janet Malcolm.

 And a satisfyingly thick spring issue of Granta does ALIENS

Fun Magazines You May Have Missed

Sometimes there is a whole section of magazines that you have always missed somehow.  Or maybe you just didn't expect it.

Dirt Rag #154, while having the expected articles of Where to Ride in New Zealand, also writes about access in Colorado, the relationship between bike trails, wilderness, and the roadless rule.  Even though it was right on the cover, I almost missed one called "America's First Mountain Bikers".  You may have heard about the 10th Cavalry regiment, but I was completely unfamiliar with the 25th Infantry Bicycle Corps, a unit African-American soldiers based in Missoula who did a demonstration bike ride in 1897  from Missoula to St Louis, Missouri.  (Further reading here and here)

Or you can find Prehistoric Times in our science and natural history section.  A fun mix of paleontology, museum info, toys, art and models.  This issue has James Gurney (Dinotopia), and article about the Chicago Field Museum, and Top Paleo Events of 2010.

And if you are looking for something more hip, there is the oversize The Last Magazine (pop culture).  The sixth issue, in its own non-standard format.

So a few magazines came in before the tsunami.... (movies)

Westerns, oh westerns that classic genre.  Creative Screenwriting writes about the Coen Brothers take on True Grit, while Cineaste and FilmMaker both take on Kelly Reichardt's  Meek's Cutoff (with Michelle Williams).  Cineaste calls it a feminist Western, FilmMaker calls it fierce.  A new issue of Creative Screenwriting magazine should be coming soon, so hurry in to pick up your copy of True Grit, and decide which is more tantalizing Cineaste or FilmMaker. 

Expanded Spring Hours start Monday

Heads up, while it is quarter break this week, we are still on Winter Hours, cafe closes at 5pm, news stand and magazine store closes at 7pm.

NEXT WEEK, starting Monday March 28, Spring hours start!

Cafe will be open till 6pm
News / magazines will be open till 8pm

Spring: New Titles and Latest Editions

 

  
New for Spring, zine Put a Egg On It #3 an "art and literary magazine out of New York City about food, cooking and the communal joys of eating with friends and family"  Matthew & Jean both recommend checking it out!  You can find it in the zine section near the Inner Swine and the First Line.

Also, the latest edition of The Maritime Northwest Garden Guide from Tilth.  This Saturday March 19th is the early spring plant sale.  The event is no longer at the Good Shepherd Center, but over at the Interbay Urban Center (Whole Foods).  Tilth will also be having a workshop on city chickens.

Come by afterward and make us jealous with your new plants.  You know that Gloria loves to talk about gardening!

And just a quick mention of a few other new titles!

   

Fab, Filament, Be Street, and Carl's Cars.  You can find all three in Pop Culture.  Be Street is French Urban magazine, Fab (not to be confused with Toronto's biweekly gay magazine Fab) is Fabulous, African and Black, and comes out of the lively Nigerian cultural scene.  Filament, a little naughtiness for women.  Carl's Cars - ah there is my secret vice.  Car magazines.  And one with David Lynch?  We will have to talk about Car magazines later! 

15th Ave NE Construction - Cafe Hours Change

If you've come in on the weekend, you may have had your route changed by the construction on 15th Ave NE, if you haven't run into it already, 15th Ave NE is closed for construction Saturday and Sunday daytime until June!  What a hassle, but that street really needed some smoothing out.

While the construction is going on,  the espresso stand will be closed on the weekends.

We will have complementary drip coffee for our customers, and the two computers will still be available for you to drop in and check your email.