Casperian Books Blog

The Philadelphia City Paper did a very nice write-up of The Tea House, in preparation for Paul’s reading at Port Richmond Books in Philadelphia, this coming Saturday at 2 p.m. (full details).
William Walsh’s next reading will be at Ada Books in Providence, RI, on August 2nd. Details here.
And getting back to the football (it’s almost […]

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Cody’s in Berkeley closes. I loved that store (the one on Telegraph). We used to spend hours in there and then go up the block to Moe’s and spend some more hours in there. Years ago, my partner-in-crime Casper was actually banned from ever using the Cody’s bathroom again because of an incident. Anyway, the […]

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This one’s actually even book-related… There’s a not-so-stellar-review of The Tea House at GUD Magazine–though rather interestingly they give the book three out of five stars on their goodreads. I guess the reviewer in this case hated everything we really liked. Oh well, win some, lose some.
(And yes, bad reviews are good when they’re very […]

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Actually, in a valiant attempt to continue working while at the same time watching as many matches as possible, Tenant B and I tried to set up the old TV currently gathering dust in the garage in the office this weekend, after discovering what looked like a cable connection behind my desk. We rearranged the […]

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Jeff Vande Zande, the author mentioned in our last post, has just written a very complimentary review of The Tea House as well.
Other than that, we here at Casperian Books are incredibly busy juggling the fall list with Euro 2008, where three teams I have some sort of national allegiance to have qualified this time […]

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