Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Outdoor Sidewalk Sale/ Garden Courtyard
We have been receiving a lot of a really good used books. Our customers are always commenting on our unique and interesting book selection in the store. Well, we would like to return the compliment.If these books that we have been buying back from our customers are any indication of your taste in books or your collections then we have some of the coolest customers in the city...Anyways, we ran out of room in the store so on sunny days you can now find a great selection of used (and some discounted new books)on display on tables on our sidewalk. take a stroll through Tremont and browse our great used book selection on the cool shade of our front yard.If you need a break from strolling around the neighborhood come on in and grab a glass of wine,coffee,tea,etc and sit down and relax on our Garden Courtyard.We have recently finished planting our flowers and it really turned out nice.It's a great place to read a book and enjoy the Cleveland summer.
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Thursday, May 14, 2009
Why Are All These Articles Posted On The Visible Voice Books Blog?
We have been asked a few times why we continue to put links to magazine articles on our blog. Three reasons: 1) almost all of these articles were originally printed in magazines that we carry at the store. So it’s a good way of illustrating some of the interesting topics that the magazines we sell cover. 2) It gives us an opportunity to turn some of our customers onto some very good reporting. Once you have read some of these articles we urge you to hunt down some of the other work by these writers 3) If you look at the articles we have chosen to place on our blog, they are full of information that you are not going to find in our local media and focus on very important topic’s we as a country are currently facing. These articles are a small public service that we feel responsible for continuing.Below are three very current articles about the challenges facing the United States as we try to determine the best path of disengaging our troops from Iraq and Afghanistan:
Syria Calling:
The Obama Administration’s chance to engage in a Middle East peace. By Seymour M. Hersh
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/04/06/090406fa_fact_hersh
The Gathering Storm: Nir Rosen’s article that recently appeared in The National regarding the disintegrating situation in Iraq.
On the sixth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad to American forces in 2003, Nir Rosen finds that Iraqis are safer but hardly safe, sectarian tensions have been submerged but not eliminated, refugees are unwilling to risk a return to their homes, and almost everyone expects the worst after US troops withdraw.
http://www.thenational.ae/article/20090410/REVIEW/910535938
Sunni Iraqis Fear a Bloodbath of Reprisal after Possible U.S. Exit
By Patrick Cockburn, CounterPunch. Posted April 14, 2009.
As American troops prepare to leave, the Sunni who changed from insurgents to US allies over the last two years are fearful for their future.
http://www.alternet.org/story/136476/sunni_iraqis_fear_a_bloodbath_of_reprisal_after_possible_u.s._exit/
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Bob Dylan and The Band Photo Exhibit at Kokoon Arts Gallery
One more note about Bob Dylan… William Scheele runs Kookon Arts Gallery off of West 80th Street. He was also the sound man for The Band and Bob Dylan in the early/mid 70’s. He has an amazing collection of photos that he personally took and has for sale. If you are interested in this period of rock or Dylan or The Band you will find this exhibit incredible. We highly recommend checking this out. None of these photos have been seen before.http://www.wgsproductions.com/kokoon_index.php
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Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Two More Articles of Interest:
Urban Theorist Richard Florida recently wrote an article for the Atlantic Magazine called “How the Crash Will Reshape America”. It discusses how the current economic downturn will give rise to new demographic shifts. These changes will have serious implications on our country’s cities. Throughout the article Florida details why some cities will make it while others will wither away. This article is for anyone who wants to understand what can be done to help turn the tide in Cleveland.http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200903/meltdown-geography
Bob Dylan has a new album coming out at the end of the month. We ran across this new Dylan interview. It does a great job of exemplifying why Dylan is not only one of the greatest writers of the last 100 years but also one of the coolest people alive:
http://www.bobdylan.com/
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Recent used books that have showed up at the store
Throughout the past week we have received some really good used books. A few of the authors and subjects include Roberto Bolano, Michael Chabon, some children’s books and a copy of the Book of the Subgenius. As a reminder, we are always taking used books that we feel will sell in the store.Also the Graffiti Artist Banksy has a new book that has just been released called Banky’s Bristol: Home Sweet Home. It should arrive in the store on Friday April 3rd.
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Two Magazine Articles of Interest:Saving the American Newspaper and The Current Economic Crisis
We wanted to point out two very insightful articles on two topics that are dominating the headlines.The first article appeared in the April 6th edition of the magazine The Nation. Titled:” The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers”, written by John Nichols and Robert McChesney, the article explains the role the government should play in saving Newspapers. The article also details how Newspapers got into this mess (and it isn’t all due to the web)
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090406/nichols_mcchesney
The second article appeared in Rolling Stone magazine and was written by Matt Tiabbi.It is by far the best article that we have come across that simplifies the who, what and where’s of the current economic crisis. Warning! There is a lot of explicit language throughout the article.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/26793903/the_big_takeover/
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Saturday, March 28, 2009
Lee Friedlander Photography Exhibit at the Cleveland Museum of Art
March 1 – May 31, 2009We are big fans of Lee Friedlander. He is a very under rated photographer who has spent his life chronicling American life in all it’s honestly. Think Robert Frank’s The Americans without the Jack Kerouac intro. (Which is probably the only thing separating the popularity of Robert Frank from Friedlander). We highly recommend checking out this exhibit and we have pulled some Friedlander books out of our vault and are proudly displaying them (two first editions, one signed by Friedlander and a more recent compilation).
This description was taken from the Cleveland Museum of Arts website concerning the Friedlander exhibit:
While Lee Friedlander’s name may not be a household word, his photographs are widely familiar as iconic representations of common American experience. Born in 1934, he gained fame in the early 1960s with off-balance street photographs that evoke the complexity the modern world. Explore Friedlander’s witty and unblinking view of everyday American life in this expansive exhibition that gathers some 375 photographs plus special edition books and portfolios to trace a five-decade career.
Always working in series, Friedlander mines what he calls “the American social landscape,” beginning with a layered view of city streets—shop fronts, ads, televisions, and cars. This central theme is supplemented by subjects including portraits, self-portraits, landscapes, still lifes, nudes, and studies of people at work. This body of work stands as one of the major achievements in 20th-century art, combining astute observation and graphic verve to present a compelling vision of contemporary America.