Madeleine Albright Interview

Madeleine Albright has had an exceptional career in public office, serving as an ambassador to the UN and as the first female Secretary of State, at the time making her the highest ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government. The former Secretary has published a new book called Read My Pins, detailing the unique political significance of her brooches and the stories around them. More than 200 of her pins are currently being displayed at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York.

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Top Shelf for May 2009

The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet by Reif Larsen
Part of me is tempted to sum up this book as: “What would happen if John Hodgman wrote a novel.” I don’t pay this book that complement just because it includes a chart of hobo signs and their meanings, although that did contribute. It’s mostly because [...]

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Woodsburner

Woodsburner by John Pipkin
Before he moved into his cabin at Walden, before he published his most famous text, before he wrote that most of us “lead lives of quiet desperation,” Thoreau was a big fat nobody. In fact, he was even worse than a nobody.
Almost a year before he embarked on his Walden experiment, [...]

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Have you heard the latest gossip?

Well if you haven’t, you can bet that Perez Hilton has!

The self-proclaimed ‘Queen of all Media’ and creator of perezhilton.com will be at BookPeople this Saturday at 2PM.  For those of us (ie the marketing office at BookPeople) who read his blog religiously, this book signing should be a total blast.  Hilton’s new book, Red [...]

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Top Shelf for February 2009

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