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Bibliomaniacs THE 1511 South 1500 East Salt Lake City, UT 84105 801-484-9100 Inkslinger2009 Holiday Edition MatchMaker, MatchMaker: a holiday chorus in Books The collective voice of The King’s English booksellers In this season of thanks and gift-giving…Whether it’s a $12 no-frills paperback or a lavishly illustrated $200 hardcover, a book is, dollar for dollar, the best possible present for people of all ages and stages of life. Why? Because there is one particular book that is perfect for practically everyone. The booksellers at TKE know this because it’s our daily preoccupa- tion, this occupation that allows us the bliss of matching books to people. So scroll through this cast of characters we’ve come to know and love until you spot your own friends and family members. You’ll find the perfect book(s) to match their passions listed by category. CAST OF CHARACTERS, READERS ALL: l Bibliomaniacs Bibliomaniacs Magnus Opus For the collectors among us who value the value of books or who love Outliers particular writers with passion, a signed first edition is a treasure be- True Believers yond measure, a gift never to be forgotten. Margaret Atwood’s Year of the Flood, Sherman Alexie’s War Dances, and Richard Russo’s That Old Excellent Women Cape Magic gleam on our shelves, signed firsts Sons and Lovers one and all, waiting for homes in the libraries of our bibliophilic friends. And what better gift Naturalists for the women who loved The Time Traveler’s Photographers Wife than a chance to meet Audrey Niffenegger Artists Within and get a first edition of Her Fearful Symmetry personalized? Wrap up a first edition now, and Writers and Readers we’ll include a ticket for Niffenegger’s January Detectives of the Mysterious 20th appearance at TKE. Better still, sign the Wits and Wags bibliomanical love of your life up for a subscrip- tion to our signed first editions club; he or she will receive at least three of the above-mentioned books along with LET THE MATCHES BEGIN! surprises and collector’s delights all year long. KING’S ENGLISH CALENDAR OF EVENTS Buy Local First Week Saturday, Nov. 28, 11 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 1, 7 p.m. Starts Saturday, Nov. 28th! Join us for a special Go, Dog. Go! storytime with the Local author Anne Palmer Peterson Get 10% off regularly priced cast of the Salt Lake Acting Company! And catch the will present a slideshow and merchandise during entire live performance of Go, Dog. Go! by the Salt Lake discussion of her new book, Years Buy Local First Week. Acting Company, December 2—December 27th. of Promise: The University of Utah’s See our website for more details. Visit www.saltlakeactingcompany.com for more information. A. Ray Olpin Era, 1946-1964. Thursday, Dec. 3, 5:30–7 p.m., Local Food, Local Fun Friday, Dec. 4, 7 p.m. 10+10=20% discount during our annual King’s English Holiday Party! On Thursday December Don’t miss Lucinda Scala 3, 5:30–7 p.m. add an additional 10% to the 10% discount for Buy Local First Week! We’ll have Quinn as she presents a tanta- many of your favorite local authors on hand to sign copies of their books, including Heather Arm- lizing array of hearty recipes- strong, Pat Bagley, Chris Cokinos, Sister Dottie, Terrell Dougan, Jessica Day George, Shannon Hale, and delicious samples-from her Robert Kirby, Carol Lynch Williams, Jean Reagan, Dave Hall, Blake Spalding, Emily Wing Smith newest cookbook, Mad Hun- and Sara Zarr. Come celebrate Utah’s bounty of literary talent! Let us wrap and mail while you shop. gry: Feeding Men and Boys. Sunday, Dec. 6, 9–11 a.m. Books and Bagels! Enjoy a nosh while King's English booksellers present books for holiday giving. We'll wrap and mail for you too! page history of the fabled organization MI5? Defend the Realm (Knopf, $40) by Christo- pher Andrew exposes identities and tells tales never before revealed in an intriguing tell-all biography of this secret institution. Speaking of secret histories, there’s not much that’s more secret, or mysterious, than one’s g unconscious. And whose unconscious could Magnus Opus arouse more curiosity than that of the famous These are some truly addicted and utterly voracious readers whose Carl Jung? His Red Book (Norton, $195), eyes light up at a vision that turns most to stone: the sight of a created between 1914 and 1930, is a sort of Book of Kells of psy- 700-plus-page book. Whether fiction lovers, history buffs, artists, chotherapy, a brilliantly illuminated exploration of the unconscious or cooks, these people are of the “more is better” school of thought. and of Jung’s theories of personality. Epic They’re looking for the larger world view, the biggest possible in scope and stunningly beautiful, this canvas, the epic tale. If the super-sizer on your list is a lover of fine psycho-biography is a worldwide pub- fiction, there is a wondrous welter of weighty tomes to choose from, lishing event—not only a must-have for first among them our favorite novel from the first part of the year anyone interested in Jungian psychology, which remains our favorite as winter draws near: but a chance to own something utterly Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (Knopf unique in the world of literature. $26.95). This saga of twin brothers, both doctors, Given the times (Ayn Rand hasn’t been spans decades, worlds, and cultures, taking us this popular in decades), what better from a missionary hospital in Ethiopia to New book than a biography of this compli- York City’s most poverty-stricken hospitals, and cated woman—and how ironically apt is involving us in the worlds of medicine, of love, page from The Red Book it that in Ayn Rand and the World She of family, and of all that humankind holds in Made (Nan Talese/Doubleday, $43) by common in the process. Anne C. Heller, the life of an author known for her huge tomes is Two more novels of surpassing length, both created with surpass- limned in an 800-page biography? Love her or ing style and skill, are Wolf Hall (Holt, $27) by hate her (or her books), Rand remains a force Hilary Mantel and The Children’s Book (Knopf, to be reckoned with. One only has to consider $26.95) by A. S. Byatt. Byatt’s is set in the years Alan Greenspan to recognize that her influence leading up to WWI and features Olive Well- isn’t on the wane, and any student of intellec- wood, a writer of children’s books, her husband, tual history will be fascinated. Slightly lighter brood of children, and art- on the biography front (at a mere 736 pages) is ist friends. Richly themed The Last Empress: Madame and adorned with cultural Chiang Kai Shek and the and thematic furbelows, Birth of Modern China by it will fascinate those who Hannah Pakula (Simon & love the intricacy of a multi-character cast Schuster, $30). Epic history as well as biography, twining its way through society and history. this tale of the beautiful and powerful woman at Wolf Hall, on the other hand, is limited to one the heart of China’s march to modernity is full of viewpoint—that of Thomas Cromwell. Com- drama as well as history, peopled with everyone plex, secretive, a brilliant tactician, and the from Sun Yat-sen to Sitwell, Chairman Mao to right hand of Henry VIII, Cromwell is both witness to and actor in Henry Luce. Tudor history. Mantel’s evocation is breathtaking and Wolf Hall is as For lawyers with large literary appetites satisfied only by biogra- perfect for those as hungry for history as for the lover of large liter- phies, there’s no gift more sure to please than Louis D. Brandeis, ary novels. Both books were short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, A Life (Pantheon, $40) by Melvin Urofsky. This 926-page scholarly and Wolf Hall is the recent winner. account of the Supreme Court Justice who There are two more door-stopping tomes for those who gulp down helped build a protective bulwark around history—especially military history—by the quart rather than the our freedom that has withstood decades of thimbleful. The first, The Imperial Cruise by assault, not only makes fascinating reading James Bradley (Hachette, $29.95), is the tale of but also reminds us with what toil we gained Teddy Roosevelt’s Secretary of War, William the rights and protections we so value. Finally, Howard Taft, and his secret mission to Asia—the the funniest and most ferocious writer of our consequences of which echo through history generation, a man who believed fervently right to the present. Bradley, who wrote Flyboys in the powers of both booze and the written and Flags of Our Fathers, brings history to life, word, Hunter S. Thompson, has left us a huge making the 600+ pages fly by. And what could (752 pages) and hugely entertaining posthumous collection of letters be more heart-(or door-)stopping than a 700- edited by Douglas Brinkley and appropriately, entitled —2—The King's English Bookshop—www.kingsenglish.com—801-484-9100— The Mutineer: Rants, Ravings and Missives the fireside, organized chaos, impeccable order...bibliophiles of all from the Mountaintop 1977-2005 (Simon & descriptions will revel in these pages of books and more books. Schuster, $35). Thompson had an appetite for The last of our door-stoppers are also stocking stuffers (although the life rivaled only by his instinct for observation, stockings had best be on the large side): Roberto Bolaño’s master- for the outrageous, and for the signature com- piece 2666 (Vintage, $19.95) is available in bination of insight, irony, and humor that made a single-volume paperback for the first time his brand of “Gonzo Journalism” famous.
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