Square Books Blog
Alan Huffman & Michael Rejebian Signing
Posted February 16th, 2012
Alan Huffman and Michael Rejebian visited Off Square Books last night to talk about their new book: WE'RE WITH NOBODY. For over twenty years they have been working in "opposition" research meaning they are hired by political candidates to find out buried truths about their opponents. Huffman and Rejebian also dig into their own clients' past. Needless to say, they have a colorful and interesting job. If you missed them at Square Books, on Monday they will be featured on Jon Stewart's The Daily Show.
WORLD BOOK NIGHT! SIGN UP NOW!
Posted January 27th, 2012
Square Books is participating in World Book Night.
We need book-loving volunteers to fan out across America on April 23,
2012! Just take 20 free copies of a book to a location in your
community, and you just might change someone's life. Please sign up by
Feb. 1.
The goal is to give books to new readers, to encourage reading, to share
your passion for a great book. The entire publishing, bookstore,
library, author, printing, and paper community is behind this effort
with donated services and time.
The first World Book Night was held in the UK last year, and it was such
a big success that it's spreading around the world! Please volunteer to
be a book giver in the U.S.
Twenty-Twelve Breaks Out at Square Books in late January
Posted January 18th, 2012Square Books’ 2012 event schedule got off to a nice start last night (January 17) with Mac Gordon, at Off Square, talking about his Hometown: A Remembrance – how a small town newspaper and ordinary citizens joined together in the 1960s to end racial violence in McComb, Mississippi.
January 23 will bring a crowd to meet historian John Barry (author of Rising Tide), who will talk about his new 
work – Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty (Viking, 35.00).
January 24 – Educators’ Night. In all three stores we will celebrate our teachers with discounts and giveaways.
January 26 – Novelist Adam Johnson will be here to read from his brilliant new novel that several of us are wild about, The Orphan Master’s Son (Random House 26.00). The fastidious Michiko Kakutani wrote in the New York Times that “Mr. Johnson has written a daring and remarkable novel, a novel that not only opens a frightening window on the mysterious kingdom of North Korea, but one that also excavates the very meaning of love and sacrifice."
January 27 – The Neelys will be here!
January 27 – Yes, later the same day, Nevada Barr will return with 
The Rope (Minotaur, 25.99), her latest Anna Pigeon novel. It’s always good to see Nevada back in town.
January 30 – Joshilyn Jackson (Gods in Alabama) will be back with A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty (Grand Central, 25.99), which Sara Gruen said “feels a lot like falling in love: giddy and enthralling and a little bit dangerous,” suggesting “book clubs take note.”
January 31 – We will close these two great weeks with Oxford’s Julie Cantrell’s first book, Into the Free.
