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It’s the most wonderful time of the yeaaaarrrr!!!

Dalkey Archive Press is having their super spectacular summer sale. 50-70% off plus free shipping!

On the evening of May 24th, our friend and Book Cellar co-worker Jon and his wife Amelia lost their apartment and belongings to a 2-11 alarm fire. They had just started to settle into their new place, preparing the way for their first child (due this June). The details of what they will be able to salvage from the fire are still unknown and while they fortunately had renters insurance, they will ultimately be starting again from scratch. This donation site will begin to help them re-build their lives. Contribute as much as you are willing and able. No amount is too small.

Jon is one of the editors of Knee-Jerk Magazine, published online and in print out of Chicago, where he’s an enthusiastic and supportive member of the literary community. He’s offered so much of his time and talent to others over the past few years, and now it’s our turn to help him and his family. We hope that our community can come together now to support one of its members in need.

Feel free to pass the link for this donation site to those in your own life who would be willing to help. In addition to this site, a fundraiser is being organized that will most likely take place at The Book Cellar. Stay tuned to The Book Cellar website (bookcellarinc.com) and The Book Cellar Facebook page for details.

On behalf of Jon and Amelia, Thank you for your support.

Mariner (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) just re-issued a ton of Philip K. Dick books and they are our Fifty Shades of Grey…as in, super sexy.

Inspired by this article in The Atlantic by Joe Fassler, we’ve expanded our Art of the Novella series. They’re beautiful and affordable.

So, we just got this got this new cookbook in the store (Eat with Your Hands by Zakary Pelaccio) and we pretty much can’t stop looking at it. It’s kinda like an activities book for adventurous cooks. It’s a shoe in for the James Beard Award.

With every single recipe, Pelaccio gives you a musical suggestion and a drink suggestion, and some times a drug suggestion. Some times he wants you to drink it with the meal, some times when you’re making it.

Writer Adam Levin (pictured above explaining his artistic vision to a some sort of sexy astronaut) gave a shout out to The Book Cellar in a recent conversation with porn star Kayden Kross. Check out the full interview over at Mcsweeneys.net

“I just did a reading last night at Book Cellar in Chicago—such a killer place. Every last person on staff knows of what they speak, and they’ve figured out a great angle to survive the post-Kindle world, I think: in addition to their awesome selection of titles, they’ve got an impressive wine/beer-bar plus pastries and coffee. The same staff who sells books works the bar, too, so it doesn’t feel like a tacked-on Starbucks or something.”

Adam Levin is the author of The Instructions and the story collection Hot Pink.

I love this picture mostly because Stud’s is all like “Yeah I’m loitering. You wanna make something of it?”

I think the title post is self explanatory.

Beanie Babies and The Hunger Games.

Collect them all at The Book Cellar!

Join us at The Book Cellar as writer, actor, director, soldier, craftsmen, and all-around Renaissance man Benjamin Busch shares his new memoir, Dust to Dust, a moving account of love and loss, innocence and experience. The son of celebrated novelist Frederick Busch, Ben has forged his own mark on the world as a decorated U.S. Marine who served two tours in Iraq, an actor on the immensely important show The Wire, and most recently an indie film director. We had a chance to meet Ben at a conference this year and, after gushing out all our Wire-fanboyisms, got a sneak peak at the book. Get excited, people, it’s that good.

March 30th @ 7pm