Cast Spells Punch Nazis

Thu 5 Jun 2025 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , , | Posted by: Gavin

Kelly and I have been talking about this one for a while and today, since the new LCRW is at the printer and I am busted because I ran an errand (woo) this morning, I put it up on Bonfire. All monies got to BINC, who do quiet and absolutely necessary work supporting book and comic shop people in times of trouble. Do I personally know people who have applied to BINC? I have no idea. The point is it’s private. I’ve definitely recommended it to people.

Cast Spells Punch Nazis, a Deep Black Allmade Organic Cotton Unisex Tee

 


Read Books Punch Nazis

Tue 21 Jan 2025 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , | Posted by: Gavin

I made a new thing today somewhat along the lines of things I’ve done before but, unlike this sentence, much clearer in what is being done!

For the last few years various bookshops (and many other groups) have run fundraisers and plain just sold t-shirts on Bonfire.com.

The advantages are the shirts are print on demand and include many sizes, colors, and styles. When we order Small Beer or Book Moon shirts, we have to guesstimate how many of each size and color. Sometimes I get it right, sometimes you know how this goes. More advantages: they ship worldwide and have a set up where the proceeds go directly to nonprofits.

The disadvantages are that the prices are high and 2/3+ of the price is just covering cost which leaves $6-10 for the seller and that we don’t get to work with our fab local printer.*

Yesterday while I was not watching TV and staying offline I decided I should try raising money for favorite nonprofits that support all the people who the meh government are going to try and step on.

So today I started a new Read Books Punch Nazis campaign on Bonfire and I’m trying to spread the word. There are new colors, new options (tank, hoodie, sweatshirt) as well as a couple of styles of T-shirts. Many of the options are 100% cotton as we reduce our plastic (including rayon/polyester blends) use. These first 100 shirts support CCATE, a lively and bighearted Philadelphia organization that we’ve supported for years. I’m open to suggestions (in the comments or by email) for more nonprofits to support in the future.

Delighted to be able to add something positive to the world in these cold dark times.

Black folded t-shirt with Read Books Punch Nazis in white ink on the front.

 

* Good news there, Ruth at the store tells me we need to reprint our own RBPNazis shirts, too.


Ayize Jama-Everett in Boston for A Table of Our Own & at Book Moon

Mon 25 Mar 2024 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , | Posted by: Gavin

Ayize Jama-Everett is coming over from Oakland to Boston on Wednesday March 27 for a showing of his documentary, A Table of Our Own: A Documentary About Black People and Psychedelics. I’ll put the trailer below.

Since we don’t do events at Book Moon, I’ve set up an informal drop-in with him to sign books this coming Friday Thursday at 2 p.m.

If you don’t know Ayize, he was born in Harlem, has traveled a fair bit, holds three Master’s degrees (Divinity, Psychology, and Creative Writing), and has worked as a bookseller, professor, and therapist. Besides the Liminal series of novels, he has published three graphic novels with Rosarium and Abrams Press, and has written for The Believer, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Racebaitr.

His Liminal novels are fast-paced alternate now (and then: alternate reality) science fiction which pack a punch in many different social and speculative dimensions. Hope to see you there.

Regent Theatre poster for A Table of Our Own


Kelly @ Book Moon Tomorrow

Fri 16 Feb 2024 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , , | Posted by: Gavin

Kelly will be at Book Moon tomorrow, Saturday, Feb. 17, from 3-5 p.m. signing The Book of Love (and so on), saying hello, and passing out cookies. Drop by if you can!

More events. (Cambridge, Natick, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, Atlanta, online.)


Susan Stinson and Alison Bechdel celebrate the first ebook of Venus in Chalk

Wed 20 Apr 2022 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , , | Posted by: Gavin

Please join us at at 7 p.m. on as we host superstar Alison Bechdel in zoom conversation with Northampton’s own Susan Stinson as they celebrate the first ebook publication of Susan’s novel Venus of Chalk.

Alison Bechdel is the author of many fantastic graphic novels including most recently The Secret To Superhuman Strength — Susan and Alison have known and read each other for years and Alison had this to say about Venus of Chalk:

“This neatly-stitched tale of a latter-day home economist’s ‘glaring departures from sensible living’ is a religious experience. Under Susan Stinson’s microscopic needlework, the fabric of the phenomenal world shimmers with sublime beauty. A can of baking soda, a traffic pylon, a city bus—these things will never look the same again. Stinson lavishes the same minute reverence on her human subjects, discovering rich, sacramental meaning in their most banal small talk. This book unravels what you think you know about women and men, the freakish and the normal, shame and salvation—then mends it anew into a most surprising story.”
— Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home

There is no print edition of Venus of Chalk but if you’d like signed copies of Susan’s novels, Martha Moody and Spider in a Tree, or her chapbook, Belly Songs — please order here and add your request in the comments, thank you!

*Register here*

 

poster for event


Ben Rosenbaum event Wednesday night!

Mon 28 Jun 2021 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , , | Posted by: Gavin

Join us Wednesday night for the last Book Moon zoom of the month with 2 fabulous authors. We published Ben Rosenbaum’s absolutely fabulous collection The Ant King and Other Stories a few years ago and this novel is a leap from there. I used to read Annalee Newitz on io9.com and now I enjoy her monthly column in New Scientist. Her latest book is Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age which I’ve started and recommend. They are both lovely, smart people and I’m looking forward to listening to them (and seeing them!) build the future we want to see in conversation:

Wednesday, June 30th @ 7:00 pm ET

Join authors Benjamin Rosenbaum (The Ant King and Other Stories) and Annalee Newitz (Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age, The Future of Another Timeline) at Book Moon for a reading and discussion of Rosenbaum’s amazing first novel, The Unraveling, published this month by Erewhon.

**Register here**

Hope to see you there!


Join Rebecca Roanhorse & Isabel Yap tonight on le Zoom

Tue 13 Apr 2021 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , , , | Posted by: Gavin

Join co-hosts Alexandra Manglis, Yvette Ndlovu & Nadia Saleh of the Strange Light Reading Series (originally planned to take place at Book Moon) at tonight’s event featuring Isabel Yap (Never Have I Ever) and Rebecca Roanhorse (Black Sun).

Rebecca Roanhorse is a meteor these days. Her recent novel Black Sun is a Nebula Award finalist. She’s also published a Star Wars novel (Star Wars: Resistance Reborn), a middle-grade novel in the very succesful Rick Riordan imprint (Race to the Sun), two novels in her Sixth Worldseries, and has  found the time to write for Marvel Comics, for TV, and has had projects optioned by Netflix, Paramount TV, among others. Rebecca (@RoanhorseBex) will be coming to us from Northern New Mexico.

This February Isabel Yap (@visyap) published her first short fiction collection, Never Have I Ever.Isabel started publishing short stories in 2009. Since then she has published stories in many magazines and anthologies in the US, the UK, and the Philippines. She wrote two new stories for the book, “A Canticle for Lost Girls” and “A Spell for Foolish Hearts” while completing her MBA — here’s her essay on her postgrad choices: MFA vs MBA. She works in the tech industry and drinks tea and will be coming to us from California.

Our events are fun. Hope to see you tonight: Tuesday, April 13 @ 8 p.m. EDT.

**Register here**


Lianna Fled to the Moon

Mon 21 Oct 2019 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , | Posted by: Gavin

Lianna Fled the Cranberry Bog: A Story in Cootie Catchers by GennaRose Nethercott Illustrated by Bobby DiTrani https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1220332911/lianna-fled-the-cranberry-bog-a-story-in-cootie-catchersThis Thursday we’re hosting our first ever event at Book Moon (formerly White Square Books) in Easthampton: an evening with GennaRose Nethercott, award-winning author of Lianna Fled the Cranberry Bog.

A spooky story told entirely in fold-up cootie catchers, Lianna Fled the Cranberry Bog transforms a traditional children’s game into an interactive fable of cruel beasts, daring thieves, lost sweethearts, and a family on the run. The cootie catchers (also known as fortune tellers, salt cellars, chatterboxes, etc.) are lavishly illustrated by artist Bobby DiTrani. Each features eight possible endings—but the endings are also beginnings, complications, transformations, and jumping-off points for other parts of the story.

Come see GennaRose Nethercott conduct a journey through this haunted, magical tale.


Coming Soon: Book Moon

Wed 25 Sep 2019 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Posted by: Gavin

Here’s a project we’ve been working on for a bit and will be, with luck, working on daily for a long time to come: Book Moon!

ETA: Shelf Awareness story. Now in our local paper, the Daily Hampshire Gazette.