The Carlos Museum Bookshop: Books about Books
HOW TO ORDER NEW THIS WEEK NEW THIS WEEK Please email your request and/or general ques- 100 Books That Classic Paperbacks tions with your shipping address and phone Changed the World notecards number to Bookshop Manager Mark Burell at [email protected], and you will receive a call to process your order.
Most orders for books in stock will be shipped within five business days. If a book is temporarily sold out, it may take longer to fulfill orders due to current shipping delays, but orders will be processed as quickly as possible.
Free curbside pickup options are now avail- able three days a week by appointment. If you are unable to come by for pickup, we Beautifully illustrated in can sometimes deliver for free to local ad- full color, this sweeping Every book lover’s col- dresses within a four mile radius of the museum. chronological survey lection includes a few highlights the most treasured favorites with important books from frayed edges and covers Click HERE for lists of great books for coping around the globe from soft from wear. Rich- with crisis, books of world folktales and my- the earliest illuminated ard Baker’s remarkable thology, and books for adults and kids. manuscripts all the way paintings of vintage to the digital age. Includ- paperback books capture Remember, all purchases support the Carlos ed are such well-known these intimate details. He Museum, so stock up today! classics as the Odyssey, started painting dog- the Torah, Shakespeare’s eared copies of vintage First Folio, Moby Dick, paperbacks several years and Darwin’s On the ago and prowled used Support the museum with the Origins of Species, but bookstores in search of an array of other works, appropriately careworn purchase of a Bookshop gift card some well-known and paperbacks to immor- others less so, are fea- talize in his gouache Let your friends know you’re thinking tured as well, including portraits: “No precious of them with a gift card to one of Atlanta’s those by Sun Tzu, Co- first editions, no rare pernicus, Mary Woll- things—just your com- most inventively curated bookstores, stonecraft, Thoreau, Karl mon companions.” The or purchase one for yourself in support Marx, Sigmund Freud, “book portraits” in this Proust, and Kafka as well set feature titles by some of the Carlos Museum and in anticipa- as more recent works by of the most iconic writers tion of leisurely browsing. J.K. Rowling, Art Spiegel- of the modern era, from man, and Naomi Klein. Emily Dickinson and Mark $29.95, hardcover. Twain to George Or- Available in denominations of $25 well and Susan Sontag. and $50. $16.95, boxed notecards. NEW THIS WEEK NEW THIS WEEK Rereadings: Seven- Ex Libris: Confessions Breaking Bread with Penguin Science Fiction teen Writers Revisit of a Common Reader the Dead: A Reader’s Postcards: 100 Book Books They Love Guide to a More Covers in One Box Tranquil Mind
Anne Fadiman is (by her own admission) the sort Is a book the same of person who learned book—or a reader the about sex from her Exploring the weird, won- same reader—the sec- New this fall! The title father’s copy of Fanny derful world of science ond time around? The comes from Auden, who Hill, whose husband buys fiction cover art, this 17 authors in this witty wrote that “art is our her 19 pounds of dusty huge set includes clas- and poignant collection chief means of breaking books for her birthday, sic images from books of essays all agree on the bread with the dead.” As and who once found by the likes of H.G. answer: never. Reread- we battle too much infor- herself poring over her Wells, Aldous Huxley, ings reveals at least as mation today, with algo- roommate’s 1974 Toyota J.G. Ballard, Philip K. much about the reader as rithms aimed at shaping Corolla manual because Dick, Kurt Vonnegut, about the book: each es- our every thought and it was the only written and Ray Bradbury as well say is a miniature memoir a tendancy to surround material in the apartment as celebrating images that focuses on that most ourselves only with what that she had not read at from delightfully pulpy interesting of topics, the we know and what brings least twice. This witty col- cult classics. Inspired protean nature of love. us instant comfort, author lection of essays recounts by surrealism and pop And as every bibliophile Alan Jacobs suggests a lifelong love affair with art, the postcards in this knows, no love is more the opposite: to be in books and language. For collection will appeal to life-changing than the conversation with, and Fadiman, as for many legions of sci-fi devotees love of a book. $15, pa- challenged by, voices passionate readers, the and design fans alike. perback. from the past. What can books she loves have $25, boxed postcards. Homer teach us about become chapters in her force? How does Fred- own life story. $14, pa- erick Douglass deal with perback. the massive blind spots of America’s Founding Fathers? How can Ursula K. Le Guin show us truths about Virgil’s female characters that Virgil himself could never have seen? Other touchstones include Ibsen, Rhys, Wharton, Ghosh, Calvi- no, and many more. $25, hardcover. The Book: A Cover-To- The Letter & the Browse: Love Letters Remarkable Books: Cover Exploration of Cosmos: How the to Bookshops Around The World’s Most the Most Powerful Alphabet Has Shaped the World Historic and Significant Object of Our Time the Western View of Works the World
This unique encyclopedia spanning the history of A cabinet of curiosi- the written word, from ties, a time machine, a Houston reveals that the 3,000 BC to the modern treasure trove—we love paper, ink, thread, glue, day, shows the evolution From our first ABCs to bookshops because they and board from which a of human knowledge the Bible’s statement possess a unique kind of book is made tell as rich and the changing ways in that Jesus is “the Alpha magic. UK literary critic a story as the words on which books are made. and Omega,” we see Henry Hitchings asks its pages—of civilizations, Discover some of the the world through our 15 writers from around empires, human ingenu- most influential books in- letters. Here the author the world to reveal their ity, and madness. In an cluding the Mahabharata, probes the alphabet’s favorite bookshops. Each invitingly tactile history Shakespeare’s First Folio, influence in Western conjuring a specific time of this 2,000-year-old Darwin’s groundbreaking history, showing how it and place, these inquis- medium, Houston fol- On the Origin of Spe- has served as a lens for itive, enchanting pieces lows the development cies, The Diary of Anne conceptualizing the cos- are a collective celebra- of writing, printing, the Frank, and Penguin’s mos and how the cosmos tion of bookshops for art of illustrations, and first ever paperbacks. has been perceived as anyone who has ever fall- binding to show how we This lavishly illustrated, a kind of alphabet itself. en under their spell. Con- have moved from cunei- coffee table-worthy book The Letter & the Cosmos tributors include Michael form tablets and papyrus is wrapped in a textured is a sharp and entertain- Dirda, Daniel Kehlmann, scrolls to the hardcovers jacket with gold foil, ing examination of how Yiyun Li, Pankaj Mish- and paperbacks of today. making it a great gift for languages, letterforms, ra, Yvonne Adhiambo $29.95, hardcover. those with an interest in orthography, and writing Owuor, Elif Shafak, Iain literature, art, and de- tools have reflected our Sinclair, Ali Smith, and sign. $30, hardcover. hidden obsession with Juan Gabriel Vásquez. the alphabet. $27.95, $16.95, paperback. paperback. Meetings with Every Word Is a Bird How to Read a Book Proust and the Squid: Remarkable We Teach to Sing: The Story and Science Manuscripts: Twelve Encounters with the of the Reading Brain Journeys into the Mysteries and Medieval World Meanings of Language
FIRST, FIND A TREE—A BLACK TUPELO OR DAWN REDWOOD WILL DO—AND PLANT YOUR- SELF. IT’S OKAY IF YOU PREFER A STOOP. LIKE Human beings were nev- LANSTON HUGHES. er born to read, writes With these words, an ad- Tufts University cognitive Is vocabulary destiny? From the earliest book in venture begins into the neuroscientist and child Why do clocks “talk” medieval England to the world of reading. New- development expert to the Nahua people of incomparable Book of bery Medalist Kwame Maryanne Wolf. Reading Mexico? Will A.I. re- Kells to the oldest manu- Alexander’s evocative is a human invention that searchers ever produce script of the Canterbury poetry and Caldecott reflects how the brain true human-machine Tales, these encounters Honoree Melissa Sweet’s rearranges itself to learn dialogue? In this mes- tell a narrative of intellec- lush artwork come to- something new. In this merizing collection of tual culture and art over gether to take you on a ambitious, provocative essays, bestselling author the course of a millenni- sensory journey between book, Wolf chronicles Daniel Tammet answers um. The author introduc- the pages of a book. For the remarkable journey these and many other es us to kings, queens, ages 4-8. $17.99, hard- of the reading brain not questions about the saints, scribes, artists, li- cover. only over the past 5,000 intricacy and profound brarians, thieves, and col- years since writing began power of language. In lectors. Part travel book, but also over the course London, he explores the part detective story, part of a single child’s life, numeric language of his conversation with the showing in the process autistic childhood; in reader, this history allows why children with dys- Iceland, he learns why us to experience some of lexia have reading diffi- the name Blær became a the greatest works of art culties and singular gifts. court case; in Canada, he in our culture and gives $16.99, paperback. us a different perspective meets one of the world’s on history and the culti- most accomplished lip vation of wisdom. $25, readers. He chats with paperback. chatbots; contrives an “e”-less essay on lipo- grams; and contem- plates the significance of disappearing dialects. Orig. $27 hardcover, sale priced at $5.98. Why Women Read Shakespeare and The Written World: Book Towns: Fiction: The Stories of Company, Paris: A The Power of Stories Forty-Five Paradises Our Lives History of the Rag to Shape People, of the Printed Word & Bone Shop of the History, and Heart Civilization
The so-called “book towns”of the world are dedicated havens of lit- erature and the ultimate dream of book lovers Ian McEwan once said, everywhere. Book Towns “When women stop takes readers on a richly reading, the novel will illustrated tour of the 40 be dead.” This book semi-officially recognized explains why women This first-ever history In this groundbreaking literary towns around the are the main buyers and of the legendary book, Martin Puchner world, and outlines the readers of fiction today, bohemian bookstore leads us on a remarkable history and development and how they draw on it in Paris, published by journey through time of each community, and to tell the stories of their the bookshop itself, and around the globe to offers practical travel ad- lives. And female read- interweaves essays and reveal how stories and vice. Many “book towns” ers, as parents, teachers, poetry from dozens literature have created have emerged in areas of and librarians, are the of writers associated the world we have today. marked attraction such as glue for a literate soci- with the shop—Allen Through 16 foundational Ureña in Spain or Fjaer- ety. This book, written Ginsberg, Anaïs Nin, texts selected from land in Norway, where by a scholar of women’s Ethan Hawke, Robert more than 4,000 years bookshops have been set writing, draws on more Stone and Jeanette of world literature, he up in buildings, includ- than 500 interviews with Winterson, among shows us how writing has ing former ferry waiting and questionnaires from others—with hundreds inspired the rise and fall rooms and banks. While women readers and of never-before-seen of empires and nations, the UK has the best- writers, describing how, archival pieces. It the spark of philosophical known examples at Hay, where, and when women includes photographs of and political ideas, and Wigtown, and Sedbergh, read fiction and why sto- James Baldwin, William the birth of religious the book has a broad ries influence the way fe- Burroughs and Langston beliefs. $20, paperback. international appeal, male readers understand Hughes; a foreword by featuring locations their own life stories. British novelist Jeanette such as Jimbochu in $18.95, hardcover. Winterson; and an Japan, College Street in epilogue by Sylvia Calcutta, and major unof- Whitman, the daughter ficial “book cities” of the store’s founder, such as Buenos Aires. George Whitman. $22.99, hardcover. $34.95, hardcover. The Bad-Ass Bookworm: A Memoir Confessions of a The Library: Librarians of Bookseller A Catalogue of Timbuktu: And Their Wonders Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
Libraries are much more Imported from England! than mere collections of When Lucy Mangan was Just published, the fol- volumes. The best are In the 1980s, a young little, stories were every- low-up to the bestselling magical, fabled places adventurer and collector thing. They opened up Diary of a Bookseller whose fame has become for a government library, different worlds and cast and a memoir every bit part of the cultural wealth Abdel Kader Haidara, new light on this one. as warm and welcoming they are designed to journeyed across the She was whisked away to as a visit to your very preserve. To research Sahara Desert and along Narnia, Kirrin Island, and favorite bookstore. Inside this book, Stuart Kells the Niger River finding Wonderland. She ven- a stone-faced Georgian traveled around the and salvaging tens of tured down rabbit holes townhouse on the Wig- world with his young thousands of ancient and womble burrows into town highroad, jammed family like modern-day Islamic and secular man- midnight gardens and with more than 100,000 “library tourists.” Kells uscripts that had fallen chocolate factories. In books and one portly discovered that stories into obscurity. Here is the Bookworm, Lucy brings shop cat, Shaun Bythell about libraries are stories incredible story of how the favorite characters of manages the ups and about people, containing Haidara, a mild-man- a British childhood back downs of Scotland’s larg- every possible human nered archivist and to life and disinters a est used bookshop with drama. The Library is a historian from the leg- few forgotten treasures, a sharp eye and even celebration of books as endary city of Timbuktu, poignantly, wittily using sharper wit. $25.95, objects, a celebration of later became one of the them to tell her own hardcover. the anthropology and world’s greatest and most story, that of a born and physicality of books and brazen smugglers. In his unrepentant bookworm. bookish space, and an quest to outwit Al Qaeda $17.95, paperback. account of the human and preserve Mali’s—and side of these hallowed the world’s—literary patri- spaces by a leading and mony, a victory of art and passionate bibliophile. literature over extremism. $16.95, paperback. $17, paperback. The Cabinet of Paper: Paging The Book Shopper: A A History of Reading Linguistic Curiosities: Through History Life in Review A Yearbook of Forgotten Words
Paper is one of the Steven Roger Fischer’s This multidisciplinary simplest and most es- fascinating history offers exploration of the major sential pieces of human a sweeping view across epidemics since the Black technology. For the past This spirited and witty time and geography of Death reveals the impact two millennia, the abili- guide to the world of our evolving relationship of diseases, ranging from ty to produce it in ever disheveled used book- with text, taking us to bubonic plague to Ebola more efficient ways has stores by author (and Asia and the Americas on both medical and so- supported the prolifer- Atlanta resident) Mur- and discussing the forms cial history, and examines ation of literacy, media, ray Browne describes and developments of the contemporary ques- religion, education, his personal obsession completely divergent tion of our preparedness commerce, and art; it has with bookstores that has writing systems and against the next genera- formed the foundation of “grown into a real (albeit scripts. With the Middle tion of diseases. The au- civilizations, promoting quirky) passion for think- Ages in Europe and the thor, professor emeritus revolutions and restor- ing about the many ways Middle East, innovative of the history of medicine ing stability. By tracing books affect our lives—- reinventions of reading at Yale University, also paper’s evolution from how and where we shop emerged—silent and explores the response of antiquity to the present, for them, the people we liturgical reading; the world governments to with an emphasis on the know who read them, custom of lectors; and a the great societal chal- contributions made in and the small passages focus on reading in gen- lenges posed by epidem- Asia and the Middle East, that stick in our heads for eral education, whereup- ics. Of all the conditions author Mark Kurlansky years only to reappear at on printing transformed that promote virulent challenges common as- the oddest moments.” society’s entire attitude disease, hubris emerges sumptions about technol- His ruminations and ex- toward reading. He also across the centuries as a ogy’s influence, affirming plorations offer a lifeline assesses a future in which prime mover. Know your that paper is here to stay. to readers who love to read communication will enemy or enemies! $22, $16.95, paperback browse, in the eternal likely exceed oral com- paperback. quest for the perfect munication in the digital read. $12.95, paperback. age. $13.99, paperback. Footnotes from the World‘s Greatest World’s Greatest Bookstores: 100 Bookstores: True Postcards Celebrating Tales and Lost the Most Beloved Moments from Book Bookshops Buyers, Booksellers, and Book Lovers
Based on his earlier This collection of evoca- bestseller Footnotes tive paintings and color- from the World‘s ful anecdotes invites you Greatest Bookstores into the heart and soul of (also availble for purchase every community: the lo- for $22.00, hardcover), cal bookshop, each with Bob Eckstein brings his its own quirks, charms, heart-tugging illustrations and legendary stories. to a postcard set. Here Featuring an incredible are 100 postcards that roster of great book- celebrate the pillar of stores from across the every community— globe and stories from the independent writers, thinkers, and bookstore—with 50 total artists of our time such as illustrations to both send David Bowie, Tom Wolfe, and save. $20, boxed set. Jonathan Lethem, Roz Chast, Philip Glass, Jon- athan Ames, Terry Gross, Mark Maron, Ann Patch- ett, Chris Ware, Amitav Ghosh, Alice Munro, and many more. Page by page, New Yorker car- toonist Eckstein perfectly captures our lifelong love affair with books, book- stores, and book sellers. $22, hardcover.