Last night and tonight marked Yesterday’s Muse Books’ first presentation by the Working Class Theatre Company, who performed Waiting for Lefty by Clifford Odets. The cast of sixteen did a great job, and the material couldn’t have been more pertinent to today’s social and economic situation. We look forward to working with these actors again — their next scheduled performance is slated for August 7th and 8th. Those interested in attending can join our mailing list by using the ‘Subscribe to Our Newsletter’ link on our website.
Summer Reading List Selections
High School Selections
- A is for Alibi (or any from the Kinsey Milhone series) – Sue Grafton
- ABC Murders – Agatha Christie
- All Creatures Great and Small – James Herriot
- Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay – Michael Chabon
- Among Schoolchildren – Tracy Kidder
- Angels & Demons – Dan Brown
- Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging (or any title in the Confessions of Georgia Nicolson series) – Louise Rennison
- Cat Who Went Up a Creek (or any in Cat Who series) – Lilian Jackson Braun
- City of Beasts – Isabel Allende
- Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation – Lynne Truss
- Eldest – Christopher Paolini
- Emily of New Moon (or any in the Emily series) – L.M. Montgomery
- Ender’s Shadow (or any in the series with the exception of Ender’s Game) – Orson Scott Card
- Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
- Daughter of Fortune - Isabel Allende
- David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
- Deception Point – Dan Brown
- Diamond Throne (or any title in the Elenium series) – David Eddings
- Digital Fortress – Dan Brown
- Don’t Eat This Book – Morgan Spurlock
- Great and Terrible Beauty – Libba Bray
- Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal – Eric Schlosser
- Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom
- Fixer – Bernard Malamud
- Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon – Stephen King
- The Last Lecture – Randy Pausch
- Life and Death of Adolf Hitler – James Cross Giblin
- Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
- Man’s Search for Meaning – Victor Frankl
- It’s Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life – Lance Armstrong
- Lady and the Unicorn – Tracy Chevalier
- My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult
- No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency – Alexander McCall Smith
- Once and Future King – T.H. White
- One for the Money (or any title from the Stephanie Plum series) – Janet Evanovich
- The Partner – John Grisham
- Poisonwood Bible (or any title except Bean Trees or Pigs in Heaven) – Barbara Kingsolver
- Profiles in Courage – John F. Kennedy
- Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
- Ruby in the Smoke – Philip Pullman
- Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd
- Seneca Falls Inheritance – Miriam Grace Monfredo
- Servants of the Map – Andrea Barrett
- Silas Marner – George Eliot
- The Summons – John Grisham
- Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas – James Patterson
- Sword of Shannara (or any title in the Shannara Series) – Terry Brooks
- Tangerine – Edward Bloor
- The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
- Tin Drum – Gunter Grass
- Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albom
- Wish You Well – David Baldacci
Middle School Selections
- Chronicles of Ancient Darkness (Wolf Brother, Spirit Walker, Soul Eater) – Michelle Paver
- Any Series: Circle of Magic; The Circle Opens; Immortals or Wild Magic – Tamora Pierce
- Beacon Street Girls series – Annie Bryant
- Chicken Soup for the Soul – Jack Canfield
- Crash – Jerry Spinelli
- Eragon (Sequels: Eldest Brisignr) – Christopher Paolini
- Everest Series (Contest; Climb; Summit) – Gordon Korman
- Face on the Milk Carton – Caroline B. Cooney
- Loser – Jerry Spinelli
- Molly Moon’s Incredible Book of Hypnotism – Georgia Byng
- My Side of the Mountain – Jean Craighead George
- Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
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As Seen On Television:
Monday’s Today Show was crammed full of authors. Those making appearances included:
Michelle Callahan, author of Ms. Typed (9780307408006)
Robyn O’Brien, author of Unhealthy Truth (9780767930710). O’Brien was on the View on the 8th.
Richard Haass, author of War of Necessity, War of Choice (9781416569893). Haas was on Meet the Press on the 3rd.
Ricki Lake, author of Your Best Birth (9780446538138).
Elizabeth Hasselbeck, author of The G-Free Diet (9781599951881), and James Carville, author of 40 More Years (9781416569893), had separate segments on Monday’s GMA. Carville was on Talk of the Nation on the 7th.
Monday’s Charlie Rose featured an interview with Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine (9780312427993).
Thomas Cahill, author of A Saint on Death Row (9780385520195), was on Monday’s Tavis Smiley Show.
Emeril Lagasse, author of Emeril at the Grill (9780061742743)
Kathy Freston, author of Quantum Wellness Cleanse (9781602860919)
Whoopi Goldberg, author of Sugar Plum Ballerinas (9780786852611)
The View hosted Donald Trump, author of Think Like a Champion (9781593155308), on Tuesday morning.
Bobby Flay created dishes from Bobby Flay’s Burgers, Fries, & Shakes (9780307460639) on The Early Show on the 5th.
Tuesday’s Tavis Smiley Show included an appearance by the author of Promises I Made My Mother (9780345506559), Sam Haskell.
Fareed Zakaria, author of The Post-American World (9780393334807), was on The Daily Show on the 5th.
The Colbert Report on the 5th included an interview with Cliff Sloan, co-author of The Great Decision (9781586484262).
Michael J. Fox, author of Always Looking Up (9781401303389), was on GMA on Wednesday and The View on Thursday.
The Early Show on Wednesday had a segment with Chris Cleave, author of Little Bee (9781416589631).
Laurie Garrett, author of The Coming Plague (9780140250916), was on The Colbert Report on Wednesday.
The Tavis Smiley Show on the 6th included an interview with Daryl Strawberry, author of Straw: Finding My Way (9780061704208).
Newt Gingrich, author of 5 Principles for a Successful Life (9780307462329), Nancy Snyderman, author of Diet Myths That Keep Us Fat (9780307406156)
Leeza Gibbons, author of Take Your Oxygen First (9781934184202), all had segments on Thursday’s Today Show.
GMA had a feature on the upcoming HBO project adapted from John Hoffman’s The Alzheimer’s Project (9781586487560) on Thursday.
Larry King hosted Marlee Matlin, author of I’ll Scream Later (9781439102855), on his talk show on Thursday.
ABC’s Primetime on Thursday did a feature on Michael Gill’s How Starbucks Saved My Life (9781592404049).
Thursday’s Tavis Smiley Show had a segment with Patti Davis, author of The Lives Our Mothers Leave Us (9781401921620)
Walter Earl Fluker, author of Ethical Leadership (9780800663490).
Ayelet Waldman, author of Bad Mother (9780385527934), was on The Today Show this morning. Waldman was on Talk of the Nation on the 4th and Fresh Air on the 5th.
Maria Helm Sinskey, author of The Williams-Sonoma Family Meals (9780848732639)
Michio Kaku, author of Physics of the Impossible (9780307278821), is to be on the same show.
The View hosts Alyse Myers, author of Who Do You Think You Are? (9781416543060), on this morning’s show.
Adam Perry Lang, author of Serious Barbecue (9781401323066), is booked on Oprah for today. Lang was on The Today Show on Thursday.
Cheryl Saban, author of What Is Your Self-Worth? (97814019239521), is booked on Charlie Rose for this evening.
As Heard On NPR:
Doug Rothbart, author of Requiem for a Paper Bag (9781416560548), was on last Saturday’s Weekend Edition.
Saturday’s All Things Considered aired an interview with John Harley Warner, author of Dissection (9780922233342).
Sunday’s Weekend Edition examined the new book, Who Is Mark Twain? (9780061735004).
Colm Toibin, author of Brooklyn (9781439138311), was interviewed on Sunday’s All Things Considered and had his book reviewed on Thursday’s Fresh Air.
Monday’s Morning Edition included an interview with Neil MacFarquhar, author of The Media Relations Department of Hezbollah…(9781586486358).
Monday’s Diane Rehm Show hosted Frank Portnoy, author of The Match King (9781586487430).
Malina Saval, author of The Secret Lives of Boys (9780465002542), was on Monday’s Fresh Air and Talk of the Nation.
All Things Considered’s “You Must Read This” segment on Monday featured Halldor Laxness’ Independent People (9780679767923).
John Barry, author of The Great Influenza (9780143036494), was on Morning Edition on Tuesday.
Tuesday’s Diane Rehm Show hosted Rita Dove, author of Sonata Mulattica (9780393070088).
Leonore Skenazy, author of Free-Range Kids (9780470471944), had a segment on Talk of the Nation on the 5th.
All Things Considered on Tuesday aired an interview with the author of Annie’s Ghost (9781401322472), Steve Luxenberg.
Steve Miller, author of The Turnaround Kid (9780061251276)
Daniyal Muennuddin, author of In Other Rooms, Other Wonders (9780393068009)
Ali Sethi, author of The Wish Maker (9781594488757). Please note the this title goes on sale on June 11th.
Joshua Cooper Ramo, author of The Age of the Unthinkable (9780316118088), was on Wednesday’s Diane Rehm Show.
On Point on the 6th welcomed Ruth Reichl, author of Not Becoming My Mother (9781594202162).
Jack Murningham, author of the forthcoming Beowulf on the Beach (9780307409577), selected the following for his “3 Books” segment on Wednesday’s All Things Considered:
Moby Dick (9780142000083) by Herman Melville
Ulysses (9780679722762) by James Joyce
The Sound and the Fury (9780679732242) by William Faulkner
Thursday’s Morning Edition included interviews with Huston Smith, author of Tales of Wonder (9780061154263), and with Larry Tye, author of Rising from the Rails (9780805078503).
Elizabeth Strout, author of Olive Kitteridge (9780812971835), was interviewed on Thursday’s On Point.
Talk of the Nation had a segment with Amy Dickinson, author of The Mighty Queens of Freeville (9781401322854), on the 7th.
Mark Reiter & Richard Sandomir, authors of The Final Four of Everything (9781439126080), were on All Things Considered on Thursday.
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Our Store in the Democrat and Chronicle
Our first major article has been printed and, lucky for us, it’s in the Democrat and Chronicle, which is widely read in the Rochester area. It’s going to be in the ‘Our Town’ insert which is found primarily in the Webster/Penfield copies. We’ve used the handy copy-and-paste feature so that everyone can read the article on here. If you’d like to share the article go to this link and click ‘share’ at the top to email it to your friends and family or put it on your facebook page! Here is the article:
Rare and used bookstore opens in Webster
“WEBSTER — Ask 27-year-old Jonathan Smalter what he’s most proud of in his bookstore, and he’ll probably lead you to the rare book room and point to a first-edition copy of The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger.
The book, priced at $3,500, is by far the most expensive item in Yesterday’s Muse.
Smalter’s used bookstore opened in December on West Main Street in the village of Webster. The store has several rare books and thousands of regular used books, from genre fiction to literary fiction to books on local history.
The store has the crisp feel of a new bookstore. Every book has a price tag. Tables of books are scattered throughout, and Smalter changes the theme of each table every couple of months.
In honor of spring, he now has tables for sports books, cookbooks, gardening books and Christian books (a nod to Easter).
Smalter’s girlfriend, Kristine Rinebold, handles data entry, promotions, customer inquiries and aspects of the store’s Web site. She also contributes to the bookstore’s blog.
“We’ll call her the Jill of all trades,” Smalter said. “She’s kind of amazing.”
The bookstore even has a resident tabby cat, Ophelia Paige, who recently wandered in as a stray.
While the physical incarnation of Yesterday’s Muse was born during a recession, Smalter has been building his bookselling career online for years. The Webster native started buying used books at garage sales and library sales when he was a philosophy major at Nazareth College. He began to learn what sorts of books would sell well on the Internet.
“I sold books out of my closet,” Smalter said. “I bought a ton of stuff and I was wrong about a lot of it.”
Some books sell quickly online for a decent profit; other titles have too many copies available on the Internet and are harder to sell, he says.
With time, Smalter has developed an eye for which titles are worth his while.
Smalter got into the book business as a teenager. The first job he ever held was unrelated: He worked as a dishwasher in the Chinese food department at Wegmans
ut Smalter’s mother encouraged him to find a job that wouldn’t send him home smelling like soy sauce and grease, and since he knew someone working at Webster Village Used Book Store, he applied for a data-entry position.
Store owner Tim Ryan hired Smalter, who was 17 at the time. He worked there for three years.
Then he sold books out of his closet for a time. And after graduating from Nazareth in 2003, he moved home and sold books out of his parents’ attic.
He had accounts with Amazon Marketplace and abebooks.com, among others. Eventually, he started Yesterday’s Muse as an online-only store.
Now he has a 15,000-book collection. About half of the books are displayed in his store; the rest are in storage. They’re almost all for sale online.
The trick to Smalter’s business, he says, is maximizing the different strengths of online and in-store sales. Books that don’t sell well on the Internet, such as popular fiction titles, fly out of his store.
Obscure titles might fetch a profit online, but could sit on a store shelf for months.
Gardner J. Ryan of Irondequoit was driving down Main Street a couple of months ago when he noticed the sign for Yesterday’s Muse.
“I thought, my goodness, there’s a bookstore I haven’t been in,” Ryan said.
Ryan says he’s impressed with the store’s clean layout. He’s also sold 12 boxes of books to Smalter. Ryan’s personal book collection once included about 3,000 titles, he said, though he has cut it by a third.
He’s told all his book friends about the store and has brought people in to see it, he said.
Trish Corcoran and her 4-year-old daughter, Eva Nielson, are two regular customers of Smalter’s store. Although they live in Ontario, Wayne County, they do a lot of shopping in Webster.
Corcoran was excited to discover Yesterday’s Muse.
“I was brokenhearted when Brown Bag (Book Shop) closed in the city,” she said, referring to the Monroe Avenue store that shut down last year.
Corcoran, who is in a book club, enjoys used bookstores because she can buy book club books that she may not normally have bought on her own, and she doesn’t have to spend a fortune.
She says she can afford to buy her children books more often at Yesterday’s Muse.
Her 12-year-old son, Bjarne Nielson, is also an avid reader.
And Corcoran enjoys getting store credit when she sells Smalter some of her own books.
“It’s nice to recycle your books,” she said.
“Books that I’ve enjoyed are going to another home rather than collecting dust on my shelves.”
STVEALE@DemocratandChronicle.com
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Ebb and Flow
It’s interesting to see the way the world ebbs and flows with time. Different cultures have their own ways of representing this phenomenon, but the idea of a sort of circular pattern, a breathing in and out, a pulse, even, is quite universal. Right now we are seeing an ebb on many fronts. Economically, things are receding (hence the term recession). Environmentally, the quality of our world is changing in frightening ways.
Any student of history, though, realizes that this is part of a greater cycle. What is important to study is the duration of these cycles, and what affects it. It is also important to acknowledge that, while the ebb phase of the cycle can be painful, it is inextricably bound up with the flow. They are, essentially, one process. We must accept the bad times as readily as the good times, because each is part and parcel of the other.
Eastern philosophy explains this with its concept of yin and yang, which unfortunately are viewed by most people to represent good and evil — in reality, it is more accurate to depict them as heads and tails on the same coin. They work with each other, not against each other. Like the wind-up and swing of a baseball bat, they are separate parts of the same action.
It is difficult to keep this perspective at the forefront of our minds as people lose jobs, homes, and retirement funds. Sadly, even holding onto the proper perspective does not shield us from the effects of what is a particularly drastic ebb. But we must have faith in the process.
Our Upcoming Events
This May is going to be a busy month for Yesterday’s Muse Books.
Mark your calendars!
May 9th
- On May 9th Anna Gill will be at the store to promote her new book.
About the Book
A roller coaster of fun awaits the
reader as an old, crusty Chesapeake
waterman teams up with a young,
sophisticated cub reporter from the
Baltimore Sun. They are determined to
fight an outrage that is taking place on the
Eastern Shore of Maryland. Could this
happen anywhere? You bet your crab pots
it can. After you meet Dickie Short, one thing
is for sure: You will never forget him!
About the Author
After twenty years as a professional fundraiser for nonprofit organizations, ANNA GILL is retired and now spends her time writing novels and freelance articles. She splits her time living in Upstate New York and Bethany Beach, Delaware. The loves of her life are her husband, grown children, sons and daughters-in-law and the most adorable ‘grands’ in the world.
Anna will be at Yesterday’s Muse Books
32 W Main St.
Saturday, May 9th
2 – 3 p.m.
Books available for purchase now and during the signing.
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May 23
- Allan Miller will be at the store promoting his new book.
About the Book
The book describes in beautiful poetic-prose the events surrounding Jesus’ death and resurrection. It has stirred up a bit of controversy because it attempts to de-mystify the Scriptures – telling exactly what Jesus did those three days in the “heart of the earth.” Come and see for yourself whether you agree with the author’s rendition of this event or ask the questions you may have about the work.
About the Author
Allan Miller is a local author from Webster, New York. Writing a book is a dream of his that has been a long time in coming and he is excited to see the success of his work. His small book has been well-received in this area and will further its accomplishment with a book signing next month.
Allan will be at Yesterday’s Muse Books
32 W. Main St.
Saturday, May 23
3-6 p.m.
Books available for purchase now and at the signing.
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May 29 and 30
Working Class Theatre Group will be performing 'Waiting For Lefty'.
About the Play
“The play is composed of seven different vignettes separated by blackouts. As the play opens, several taxi drivers sit in a semicircle. To one side stands a gunman. A large man and union leader, Harry Fatt, tells the men that a strike is not a good idea. When a man in the crowd mocks this idea, Fatt calls him a “red” (slang for Communist), says he is keeping an eye out for them in the union, and claims that the reds, given the chance, will betray their fellow workers. The crowd questions where Lefty is, their elected chairman. Fatt reminds them they already have their elected committee present. He lets Joe, one of the workers, speak. Joe maintains he is not a “red boy,” citing his status as a wounded war veteran, and discusses how if a worker expresses dissatisfaction, the union leaders label him a “red.” He says his wife convinced him last week to strike for higher wages.” — Wikipedia
About the Working Class Theatre
Yesterday’s Muse Books welcomes the Working Class Theatre Company for their first in a series of play readings. Directed by Sandy Nagar, a cast of talented local actors will present a semi-staged reading of ‘Waiting For Lefty’ by Clifford Odets. From the team of artists that brought you the Webster Shakespeare Festival, comes this new and exciting theatre company.
The Working Class Theatre Company will be at Yesterday’s Muse Books
32 W. Main St.
Friday, May 29 and Saturday, May 30
7 p.m. – ?
Questions or comments? Check our our website for contact information.
Value
At the risk of waxing philosophical, I’ve decided to write about the concept of value. This is a subject I deal with daily at work as I assess how much store credit or cash to give customers for their used books, and as I price new inventory. It used to be that the word ‘value’ indicated the inherent worth of an item, or alluded to some benefit gained from having it, hence the term ‘valuable’. Most things can possess value — there are valuable pieces of information, valuable books, valuable friendships…
A problem I’ve been seeing lately, though, is that the word ‘value’ has become misused. Companies advertise ‘better value’, when really what they are pointing out is a reduction in price: direct mail coupons are termed the ‘ValPak’; bulk foods are marked Value Size.
Unfortunately, what people have taken away from this is that the way to get a better value is to try to get the same thing for less money.
In response to this, companies have changed their strategy. Rather than trying to have the best product, many simply try to have the cheapest. Consumers initially thought this was great — paying less money has to be better, right?
That was true initially, but it’s become a slippery slope. Now companies launching new products are looking at how to make them even cheaper than the last. And they’re doing that by subtracting value. Products don’t last as long (this is a strategy called ‘planned obsolescence‘). The ingredients they include aren’t as good. The problem is, we as consumers have not pushed back enough. Companies have lowered their standards of quality, and we have gone right along with them. They are looking for the quality floor (i.e. how low they can go), and we haven’t shown it to them yet.
At some point (and in some cases that point has already been reached), this is going to have a very real effect on our society. Cheaper isn’t always better. We all know this, deep down. We all realize that something is being sacrificed along the way. Whether it be the wages of those producing the goods, the health of those consuming them, the overall economic health of the world… skimping on quality is not sustainable. Neither is skimping on service. And yet these are things we continue to shoulder more and more in modern society.
Remember when milk used to be delivered to people’s doors? Remember when all gas stations were full service? I don’t. But it used to be the case. I’m 26. It hasn’t been that long, and we’ve gone from a society where companies bend over backwards with service incentives to win our business, to one where we save a few bucks here and there. So the question for all of us becomes… does this sound like value to you?
Today’s book:
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
The first volume in a favorite fantasy adventure series of mine, entitled A Song of Ice and Fire. This is an epic novel, grand in scope, original in content, rich with numerous interesting characters. And the interesting part about Martin’s approach — no one is safe. Gone are the days of traditional fantasy, where no matter the predicament the protagonist finds him/herself in, they are impervious to harm. Martin keeps you guessing with every page, which speaks to his talent, considering each book in this series is a hefty tome (500-700 pages).
Ophelia Paige’s Meet and Greet!
This is Ophelia Paige, our bookstore cat. 
A few weeks ago, probably 3 at this point, this sweet little cat wandered to our door. Jonathan was at the store alone for once and I was over at the apartment getting ready to have dinner with a friend. He calls me and says: ‘Kristine! There is a cat meowing at our door… what should I do?’ And of course I respond ‘Let it in! It’s freezing out!’ I brought food over for her but apparently by the time we had gotten off of the phone she was already gone, wandering off in search of other adventures.
Being the bleeding heart that I am I call my friend, Sam, and tell him that I needed to rescue a cat and was going to be late. He grudgingly understood and Jonathan and I bundled up for the winter night and headed out in search of the elusive feline. Behind our bookstore is a construction site where they are building a new firehouse (yay!) and rolling around in the dirt is a shadowy figure who looks suspiciously like an adorable kitty.
We talk to her from where we stand and she meows back, almost as if to say ‘Hey, I was wondering when you’d get here. Can we go inside now?’
She allows Jon to pick her up and take her in where she explores the store fearlessly — eating her delicious canned food and indulging in some fresh water, content to finally be in a warm, safe place.
We took her to the vet in the following weeks after no one called us to claim her from the ads we posted.
She was not microchipped and was indeed a feral cat who had chosen the perfect home.
Ophelia Paige now enjoys the same creature comforts as every bookstore cat, such as never-ending attention, a soft cat bed, many mice toys, a gigantic cardboard box fort, and a boundless amount of love from all who meet her. Anyone interested in coming to meet her is welcome, though we can’t promise she won’t be sleeping in her favorite spot — a J. Jill paper shopping bag under the checkout counter.
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Rainy with a chance of showers
It’s been a rainy week here in upstate New York, which is typical for this time of year. It’s interesting to see, though, how despite all our technological innovations, despite all the conveniences we now enjoy… weather still wins. No matter what we throw at her, mother nature can basically swat us like flies. It’s humbling, and in an important way, I think. We need to know that we are not the center of things, even though our senses would have us believe otherwise. We need to realize we are part of something greater, and try to figure out where we fit into that. Easily said, right? Well, luckily, I think that the process is the important part — learning, adapting, trying new things… the truth is, there is no answer, no end of the rainbow. But we need to behave as if there is, because that is what life is about. What weather tells me is that this world isn’t here for me — it’s the other way around. It will be here long after I’m gone. What I need to decide is what part I want to play in the ongoing cosmic game. Am I going to treat a rainy day like a wasted chance, or am I going to learn to live with what I’m given? Once we ask the question, the answer is easy — the problem is, many of us never do.
Today’s book:
