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Dear Reader,
We're staying cool in the bookstore today, after a relaxing weekend of reading by the lake. We hope you found a breezy place to put your feet up and enjoy a great book. As we careen toward the end of the school year, and into the season of graduation celebrations and new adventures, we're seeing lots of you looking for gifts for grads. We've pulled together a selection of our favorites on the front table, and we have a newly-expanded (and soon to expand further) collection of cards for you to browse.
If you haven't checked out our St. George's Day Contest picks yet, this week is your last chance! Help one of our booksellers get that satisfying glow of victory by picking up a copy of one of their favorite backlist books, all conveniently displayed near the counter, all in paperback, and all 20% off through Friday. We'll announce the winners next week, and we'll soon replace those with some irresistible staff summer reading picks.
On Friday of this week, Downtown Northfield celebrates the first of a summer's worth of First Friday Art Nights, when arty spots up and down Division Street will feature music, art, and other delights. We'll be open until 8, and we hope you'll stop in for a gumball poem and a browse.
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Andrea Mazzariello on One More Revolution
Wednesday, May 30th @ 7 pm
Content welcomes Andrea Mazzariello, composer, performer, writer, and Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Carleton College, to read from, discuss, and share music related to his recent work, One More Revolution.
One More Revolution writes through the intimate, personal practice of listening to music, of living with music. Beginning with self-interrogation into the author’s growing obsession with collecting vinyl records, the narrative spins out into a meditation on how we come to know the music we love, how voices from the past animate and complicate that knowing, and how the ways we consume music tell a deeper story about the ways that music means. Somewhere between memoir and theory, this book demonstrates that personal revelations can animate the work of analysis, that a poetic voice can make a formal claim, and ultimately, that language can articulate the ways that music moves us.
Find more details on our website, and let us know you're coming on Facebook.
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Poetry Night: Mary Moore Easter
Thursday, May 31st @ 7 pm
 Join Content and the Northfield Poet Laureate in welcoming Mary Moore Easter back to Northfield to read from her new collection of poetry The Body of the World.
A finalist for the 2017 Prairie Schooner Book Prize, Mary Moore Easter is also author of the chapbook Walking From Origins (Heywood Press). Widely published (Poetry, Waterstone, NY Times, etc.), she is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet, Cave Canem Fellow, veteran dancer/choreographer, and emerita Professor of Dance at Carleton College. Easter has been honored by Bush and McKnight fellowships and The Loft Creative Non-Fiction Award.
"The Body of the World astonishes, guides through history, lucid, vivid, artfully, powerfully rendered. Her artistry dares. She leads us through the tangled past and bristling present of race, slavery, gender, and cruelty, through China, France, and America. Easter offers beauty, breathe, and hope. She will leave you wiser––O, so much wiser." ––Angela Jackson
Find more details on our website, and let us know you're coming on Facebook.
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Mark your calendar! Here's what's up next at Content:
See you in the stacks!
- Jessica, Nate, and all the staff at Content
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