Mississippi Business Journal » Square Books http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Tue, 21 May 2013 14:11:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 “Civilwarland in Bad Decline” http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/07/22/civilwarland-in-bad-decline/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=civilwarland-in-bad-decline http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/07/22/civilwarland-in-bad-decline/#comments Sun, 22 Jul 2012 19:58:39 +0000 Lynn Lofton http://msbusiness.com/?p=60059 There’s an erudite, bookish gas station attendant in Oxford, and I’d like to meet him. Maybe he’s a budding writer. We book lovers are always keen to be introduced to a new author, book or genre; meaning it is new to us even though it may have been “out” for a while. A young friend [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/07/22/civilwarland-in-bad-decline/feed/ 0 The Marriage Plot: Award-winning author returns with compelling novel http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/10/02/the-marriage-plot-award-winning-author-returns-with-compelling-novel/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-marriage-plot-award-winning-author-returns-with-compelling-novel http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/10/02/the-marriage-plot-award-winning-author-returns-with-compelling-novel/#comments Sun, 02 Oct 2011 06:00:13 +0000 Lynn Lofton http://msbusiness.com/?p=46737 There are several things to recommend “The Marriage Plot” — he author is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer; for the literary minded, the book is full of ‘bookish’ issues and mentions of great novels; and the owner of Square Books, Richard Howarth, thinks it is good. “In the opening third of Jeffrey Eugenides’ brilliant new novel [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/10/02/the-marriage-plot-award-winning-author-returns-with-compelling-novel/feed/ 0 Book attempts to solve mystery of who killed the movies http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/07/17/book-attempts-to-solve-mystery-of-who-killed-the-movies/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=book-attempts-to-solve-mystery-of-who-killed-the-movies http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/07/17/book-attempts-to-solve-mystery-of-who-killed-the-movies/#comments Sun, 17 Jul 2011 06:00:48 +0000 Lynn Lofton http://msbusiness.com/?p=43527 It’s difficult to classify the works of British novelist and journalist Will Self. He explores the vanities of modern life and takes no prisoners. His latest, “Walking to Hollywood,” is no exception. The book jacket announces that the tale is a “trip through the unreality of our culture.” It provides a satirical view of Hollywood, [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/07/17/book-attempts-to-solve-mystery-of-who-killed-the-movies/feed/ 0 Book Biz: Square Books touts Dean Faulkner Wells’ book about Oxford’s famous family http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/04/03/book-biz-square-books-touts-dean-faulkner-wells%e2%80%99-book-about-oxford%e2%80%99s-famous-family/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=book-biz-square-books-touts-dean-faulkner-wells%25e2%2580%2599-book-about-oxford%25e2%2580%2599s-famous-family http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/04/03/book-biz-square-books-touts-dean-faulkner-wells%e2%80%99-book-about-oxford%e2%80%99s-famous-family/#comments Sun, 03 Apr 2011 06:00:17 +0000 Lynn Lofton http://msbusiness.com/?p=39248 Square Books owner Richard Howarth feels Dean Faulkner Wells has written the definitive memoir of her famous uncle and other family members. After all there have been numerous books that sought to bring her famous uncle to life; some of them also written by family members and some by family friends. “There is no one [...]

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