Hi Everyone-

Well, I don't know about the rest of you, but I feel like a drowned rat. Thank heavens we seem to be done with three straight days of torrential downpours. I need to get back to bailing out my poor basement (the good news--I came across some books I always meant to get around to), so I'd like to make just a brief mention of the ongoing Random Summer buy two-get-one-free sale on all titles from Vintage, Anchor, and Broadway. Great books, incredible deal: stop by now!

Among the great authors they have is William Faulkner. Faulker wrote too many of the twentieth century's greatest novels to even list, but my personal favorite is Absalom, Absalom!, the story of Thomas Sutpen's attempt to establish a dynasty in Faulkner mythical Yoknapatawpha, Mississippi... at any price. It's Faulkner at his very best: the most baroque, beautiful prose, the greatest sense of the truly epic, and the most towering, unforgettable, and sometimes insane characters. It's also an important link to Quentin Compson's state of mind in The Sound and the Fury. It's on my very shortlist for great American novel. So take advantage of the Vintage sale and give it a try!

See you in the stores,

Joe Murphy
Head Book Buyer