SHELF LIFE
For the past five years, the mighty little bookstore Papercuts J.P. has been operating out of 400 square feet in Jamaica Plain, featuring a beautifully curated selection and hosting a number of readings and events. But they’ve just announced that as of the new year, they’ll be moving — and expanding into a space more than three times the size of the current location – to 60 South Street in J.P., where Fresh Hair has operated for the last 37 years. Owner Kate Layte writes that one thing she’s thrilled about is increased office space: “That and windows.” She cites solar panels, tons of natural light, and full ADA accessibility as big pluses in the new space. And after getting all her work done in the space the size of a broom closet, Layte’s also looking forward to stretching out in new office space: “I take most of [the paperwork] home with me and I haven’t seen my countertops in months,” she writes. She’s looking forward to filing cabinets, and a large receiving area. They’ll be sticking around in their Green Street space through the holiday rush, and planning for a soft opening in February, with a grand opening party scheduled for Indie Bookstore Day on Saturday, April 25. For more information and holiday hours, visit papercutsjp.com.
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SKIN IN THE GAME
Porter Square bookseller Josh Cook found himself feeling particularly enthused by a recent book, the 1000-page, single-sentence colossus, “Ducks, Newburyport” by Lucy Ellman (Biblioasis). So enthused was he that he wanted to figure out a way to motivate sales and celebrate this “inventive, daring, ambitious” book, as he described it over the phone. So he set the stakes: if Porter Square Books sells 100 copies of the Goldsmith Prize winning, Booker-short-Lister, Cook vowed over Twitter to get a “Ducks, Newburyport”-themed tattoo. And on December 12, they reached 101 sales, meaning that Cook will be getting inked with an image from the cover of the galley copy he received, of an old-time carnival duck target game. He calls “Ducks” the book of the year, in part “because she shows inherent and unending respect for her main character, who is often disrespected, and edited out of fiction and of history.” It won’t be his first literary-themed tattoo: he’s got the Oxford Scholar from the “Canterbury Tales,” with three of “Tristram Shandy” and the famed closing line of “Ulysses” on one arm; on the other, an image from the cover of the book “Longships” about vikings, a favorite of both him and his father, with lines from a poem by César Vallejo and a line from Emily Dickinson. Cook says he recommends a lot of books, but with this one, “I was there relatively early and talking to people who ended up liking it, and seeing it succeed, I feel a sense of stewardship.”
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MEET THE PRESS
New Hampshire resident Cynthia L. Copeland, has written more so 25 books, and the first week of the new year will see the launch her new book “Cub” (Algonquin), her first graphic novel for young readers. The charming, intelligent, funny book is a sharp look into the middle school ecosystem, its shifting allegiances, its hormonally charged confusions. It follows seventh-grader Cindy as she navigates cliques and crushes and takes on a role as a cub reporter under the wing of an ambitious young woman journalist. Copeland nails the cringy pre-teen humiliations, and the book also serves as a primer on lede-writing and journalistic ethics, as well as showing a person coming into her own and learning how to be the author of her own story.
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Coming Out
“Newcomers: Book Two” by Lojze Kovčič, translated from the Slovenian by Michael Biggins (Archipelago)
“The Selected Poems of Tu Fu” translated from the Chinese by David Hinton (New Directions)
“Witches: The Transformative Power of Women Working Together” by Sam George-Allen (Melville House)
Pick of the Week
Polly Stott at the Hickory Stick Bookshop in Washington Depot, Connecticut, recommends “The Enlightenment of Bees” by Rachel Linden (Thomas Nelson): “The story of 26-year-old Mia whose perfect life is suddenly and unexpectedly turned upside-down. She embarks on a humanitarian trip around the world to try and ‘make a difference.’ Things don’t go the way she thought they would, but it turns out life has a way of pointing you in the right direction when you need it.”
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