For Those Who Plan Ahead

Postcards from the village you love!

Available now! Send a couple or a dozen or more with your personal holiday greetings. Stamp not included. Does not require batteries.

Also, don't forget next Wednesday at 4 p.m.

Author Chuck Collins will be here!

Also, please note that the new Harrison biography, Devouring Time: Jim Harrison, a Writer's Life, by Todd Goddard, is available now in my shop.

Hours until the end of the year: 

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, 11-3

Friday & Saturday, 11-5

Our Special November Guest Author

 

Author Chuck Collins

Chuck Collins of the Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive organization based in Washington, D.C., will present his new new book, Burned by Billionaires: How Concentrated Wealth and Power Are Ruining Our Lives and Planet, at Dog Ears Books in Northport (Michigan!) on Wednesday, November 12, at 4 p.m.

His new book

Collins is Director of the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the IPS and has authored and co-authored over ten books and dozens of reports about inequality, climate disruption, philanthropy, the racial wealth divide, affordable housing, and billionaire wealth dynasties. 

It was his 2016 book, Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good, that caught my attention. (You can read my review of that Born on Third Base here.) I was also intrigued by the fact that Chuck's late father, Ed Collins, and his wife, Bobbie, were founders of the Leelanau Conservancy, so Chuck has a strong connection to Leelanau County.

I am trying out the 4 p.m. time slot to avoid conflicts with evening meetings and dinner plans, and I'll be posting more about this event on my "Books in Northport" blog soon, but mark your calendar now so you won't miss Chuck on Nov. 12. I predict a very lively discussion! And if you want to familiarize yourself somewhat with the speaker ahead of his appearance in Northport, check out some of what he's written on Substack.

Once again, that's 4 p.m., Wednesday, November 12 (the day after Veterans Day) in the David Grath Gallery at Dog Ears Books, 106 Waukazoo Street in Northport.

Second Summer Is Here

 

The first copies of Isabela's Way are here today, too. (See Kristen Rabe's review here.) And I am here but only until 3 p.m. this Thursday, September 18. Friday and Saturday hours will be 11 to 5.

Labor Day and Beyond

Books in honor of Labor Day

 My plan for the holiday is to open the shop by 10 or 11 a.m. and to stay through until 2 or 3 p.m. The following day, Tuesday, September 2, will be my holiday. Bookshop closed that day.

After my one-day break, I'll be back on deck Wednesday through Saturday but probably closing up by 4 p.m.

Then -- beginning the second week in September:

September Hours

Tuesday, 11-3

Wednesday-Friday, 11-4

Saturday, 11-5

Closed Sunday & Monday

October hours will probably be about the same, but it's too soon to say. 

What should you read next?

Big book that reads fast!

 

Every American should read Robert Reich’s new book, Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America. Every American, from yellow dog Democrats to MAGA Republicans—and also all Independents and disaffected voting dropouts. Every American. Much more than a memoir, the book is American political history from postwar 1950s to the present day. Not from someone running for office or married to a political party or in bed with large corporate interests, either! Robert Reich may be smarter than you and me (he’s certain smarter than I am), but his head is not in the clouds. I have the hardcover book in my shop, and the audiobook is available through libro.fm. If your library doesn’t have it, they need to get it. Read the book! Then share your thoughts with me, please, whatever those thoughts may be.

Naturally, I have many other recommendations, fiction and nonfiction. Or just stop in and look around:

Hours through August

Monday, 11-5

Tuesday, 11-3

Wednesday-Saturday, 11-5

Sunday, CLOSED

The Topic Will Be CHANGES!

 

It’s next Wednesday, August 13, that Tim Mulherin will be at Dog Ears Books with his presentation on This Magnetic North: Candid Conversations on a Changing Northern Michigan. See my Books in Northport post for July 11 to learn more about the book between now and next week.

We will convene at 7 p.m., and I hope you will be able to join us then for a diversity of views and what it bound to be stimulating conversation.

As always, this is a free bookstore event, but you may want to get here a little early to be sure of a good seat.

Too-Good-for-Only-One-Round Books

Thanks to David R. Godine for this reprint.

David R. Godine, a small house in Boston founded 55 years ago, is one of my favorite publishers. Besides discovering new authors and works, they bring back into print titles that deserve another go-round. Such a one is certainly Clémentine in the Kitchen, which I read years ago and have regretted ever letting out of my hands. Now there is another chance for me and a first chance for you, if you have yet to discover this wonderful story. 

It was mere coincidence that, just after my order from David R. Godine brought me two copies of a reprint of Clémentine in the Kitchen, by Samuel Chamberlain, from another quarter came a first edition from the World War II era, Respectfully Yours, Annie, by Sylvia Brockway. The coincidence is dual: Clémentine was published in 1943 and tells the story of an American family leaving France in 1939 and bringing back with them their French cook. Annie was published in 1942 and is a series of letters, with introduction by the author of record, from an American family’s London charwoman-cook, who stayed with their house when the mother and children went back to America in 1939. So, Clémentine, French; Annie; English. Clémentine comes to the U.S., Annie remains in England. Both women cook for their employers, and both win the hearts of the families who employ them. Among the differences, the Clémentine book includes recipes, and Annie's does not.

Other books newly arrived in my order from David R. Godine:

Sorry to have to tell you that both copies of a reprinted Donald Hall memoir, String Too Short to be Saved, sold right off the stack on my desk before I could figure out a "better" display. (Apparently, the displayed stack was all it took.) If people knew Clémentine as I know Clémentine--and ditto with Rosie--those books would be gone already, too. As for The Last of the Hill Farms, if I have more time to spend with that before it flies to a new home, you'll hear no complaints from me. Eventually, however, it should go to a photographer or at least someone who loves photography. 

Friday visit from gentleman dog Brady