Letter From Carla And Barbara

MEMBER DISCOUNTS THIS MONTH

As a benefit to our members, all cookbooks on our shelves will be 20% off throughout the month of September. Don't forget that our usual fall storewide member sale will take place Friday-Sunday, September 10-12, and members receive a 20% discount on nearly every book and 15% off nearly CD and DVD in the store that weekend.

NAIBA LEGACY AWARD
Eileen Dengler, president of the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association, wrote a very nice tribute about us last week with additional contributions from Rick Atkinson and Howard Norman. Thank you, Eileen and NAIBA members! Click here to learn more.

PARKING LOT TO BE RESURFACED
Our landlord will be resurfacing the parking lot behind the building on Sunday, September 5.  Therefore, it will be generally unavailable to customers on that day. All cars must be off the lot on Saturday evening, after close-of-business at 10 p.m. Very early on Sunday morning, the work team will remove the bike rack and planters.  The surface will be laid that morning and needs sufficient time to dry.  Probably by 2 p.m. on Sunday, it will be firm enough for pedestrian traffic, but not cars.  By Monday morning at 8 a.m., we expect that it should be ready for vehicular traffic.

SEPTEMBER EVENTS
Welcome back from vacation and welcome to our fall lineup! Our printed September events calendars have finally arrived and if you are a member, you will be receiving them in your mailboxes shortly! This month not only brings a star-studded array of authors, with fiction from Jonathan Franzen, Gary Shteyngart, Howard Norman, and Sara Gruen; topical and political non-fiction by Robert Reich, Richard Rhodes, and President Jimmy Carter; Mem Fox, Norton Juster, Jules Feiffer, and Suzanne Collins for the children and teens; and a Storewide Member Sale scheduled on September 10-12. Pick up a print calendar in the store, watch for it in the mail, visit our September & October events calendars online, and mark the events you most want to attend. This is not a month to miss!

SIGNED FIRST EDITIONS CLUB
Politics & Prose has welcomed Nobel laureates and Booker Prize winners, debut novelists and established stars in the literary firmament.  Now we’re offering you a chance to be a part of literary history and build an impressive and irreplaceable library through the P&P Signed First Editions Club. Each month a first edition, first printing of a newly released book will be delivered directly to your door. There is no enrollment fee. The cost of each book ($35 or less, including shipping) is the only charge, which will be processed every month when the books arrive at Politics & Prose.

We are excited to begin the program with Jonathan Franzen's new book Freedom (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $28) which will be released next Tuesday and which Michiko Kakutani has endorsed wholeheartedly with a glowing review in the New York Times. We will showcase novels and literary nonfiction from authors whom we read and love, and who inspire us with contagious enthusiasm.  This program is a chance to collect and cherish these "first firsts" for years to come.

Call or email Liz Sher at the store for more information about the Politics & Prose Signed First Editions Club, or click here to register today!

2011 CALENDARS /
HIGH HOLY DAYS - Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur

We have Jewish New Year cards and calendars on display now, along with a nice selection of cookbooks and religious writing.

Our initial order of 2011 calendars is also in stock now. Come and browse our selection!

A FRIENDLY REMINDER

While visiting the bookstore, please keep an eye on your belongings.  In recent weeks, a rash of thefts from unattended pocketbooks has plagued the neighborhood.

PARKING LOT TO BE RESURFACED

Our landlord will be resurfacing the parking lot behind the building on Sunday, September 5.  Therefore, it will be generally unavailable to customers on that day. All cars must be off the lot on Saturday evening, after close-of-business at 10 p.m. Very early on Sunday morning, the work team will remove the bike rack and planters.  The surface will be laid that morning and needs sufficient time to dry.  Probably by 2 p.m. on Sunday, it will be firm enough for pedestrian traffic, but not cars.  By Monday morning at 8 a.m., we expect that it should be ready for vehicular traffic.

SIGNED FIRST EDITIONS CLUB

Politics & Prose has welcomed Nobel laureates and Booker Prize winners, debut novelists and established stars in the literary firmament.  Now we’re offering you a chance to be a part of literary history and build an impressive and irreplaceable library through the P&P Signed First Editions Club.

You might be familiar with our Book-A-Month Gift Program, in which our booksellers hand-pick a monthly gift for a reader in your life.  Now you can sign up to have a first edition, first printing of a newly released book delivered each month directly to your - or your loved one's - doorstep. There is no enrollment fee. The cost of each book ($35 or less, including shipping) is the only charge, which will be processed every month when the books arrive at Politics & Prose. You can save by choosing to collect your books in the store.  The program is available for six or twelve months at a time.

We will showcase novels and literary nonfiction from authors whom we read and love, and who inspire us with contagious enthusiasm.  This program is a chance to collect and cherish these "first firsts" for years to come.

We are excited to begin with Jonathan Franzen's new book Freedom, which Michiko Kakutani has endorsed wholeheartedly with a glowing review in the New York Times,

Jonathan Franzen’s galvanic new novel, "Freedom," showcases his impressive literary toolkit — every essential storytelling skill, plus plenty of bells and whistles — and his ability to throw open a big, Updikean picture window on American middle-class life. With this book, he’s not only created an unforgettable family, he’s also completed his own transformation from a sharp-elbowed, apocalyptic satirist focused on sending up the socio-economic-political plight of this country into a kind of 19th-century realist concerned with the public and private lives of his characters.

This fall’s tremendous selections are just the beginning. As a club member, every month you will continue to receive books of surpassing cultural importance and literary merit.

SEPTEMBER: Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $28)

OCTOBER: Great House, by Nicole Krauss (W.W. Norton, $24.95)

NOVEMBER: Travels in Siberia, by Ian Frazier (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $28)

DECEMBER: Luka and the Fire of Life, by Salman Rushdie (Random House, $25)

P&P members will receive 20% off on all selections.

If you are not currently a member, we encourage you to register for a membership. You will save in the long run, and also receive all of the other member benefits - discounts on bestsellers, author event books, our notifications of the events by mail and email, the opportunity to participate in our four annual storewide member sales, and other discount promotions.

Call or email Liz Sher at the store for more information about the Politics & Prose Signed First Editions Club, or click here to register today!

HIGH HOLY DAYS - Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur

We have Jewish New Year cards and calendars on display now, along with a nice selection of cookbooks and religious writing. Come and browse our selection!

A FRIENDLY REMINDER

While visiting the bookstore, please keep an eye on your belongings.  In recent weeks, a rash of thefts from unattended pocketbooks has plagued the neighborhood.