Olsson's: Buyer's Corner

Olsson's is a locally Owned & Operated, Independent chain of six book and recorded music stores in the Washington, D.C. area, started by John Olsson in 1972. Each week the Head Book Buyer blogs about interesting new books that are available.

Thursday, August 17, 2006

Joe Murphy on More Summer Reading

Hi Everyone-

Book CoverHope all is well with you; speaking for myself, I was certainly relieved at last weekend's cool pleasant weather. It more than made up for the previous week's scorchfest.

I'm off this week for the Gift Show in New York, functioning as a second set of eyes for our new Gift Buyer, Christina Tompkins. Wish me luck and channel thoughts of new items you'd like to see in the stores.

Harcourt, Mariner, & Norton LogosThe Harcourt Brace/Mariner/Norton paperback buy-two-get-one free sale got off to a great start last weekend. It's another great list of books from which to choose, so come in and check it out right away! The sale runs through September 13th.

And one last thing: my obsession with the great American author William Gaddis continues; I just started his hilarious satire of our national obsession with money, JR. I'll let you know how it is as I go along; the first 150 pages are hilarious.

See you in the stores,

Joe Murphy
Head Book Buyer

posted by Joe Murphy at 10:00 AM

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Alexis Akre, a DC-area native, has worked at Olsson's for almost six years. She received her BA in English from Barnard College, and lived in New York for several years. Since her return to her home town, Alexis has honed her gift for skewering both vapidity and pretension with concise, well-worded psychological assessment. She can be seen tooling around town on her minty green bike, reading one of the hundreds of books she has stacked in her home, and teaching her cat to do tricks.


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