Grass Roots Books and Music

Happy Sunday! 

        My favorite magazines featured in the store are:


Under the Radar gives you a glimpse of Indie musicians before they hit the big time. Nee says this is where she first heard about The Lumineers, before she heard them on the radio! MGMT is featured in the current issue.

If you like to write, you will find this magazine tempting. Not only does it have interviews with current beloved authors such as Jesmyn Ward, but it also has information about upcoming writing contest deadlines, like the Narrative 30 Below Contest which offers $1,500 and publication of your poem, short story, essay or excerpt in Narrative magazine if you are under the age of 30.

  

And! Excitingly, it is Banned Books Week! September 22-28 is a time to push to the forefront the books that have been thrown off the shelves, recently or historically. We've got a display of past and current banned books in the store, from 50 Shades of Gray by E. L. James (for reasons maybe obvious, maybe not) to Where's Waldo by Martin Handford!!! Make sure you ask us about why that last one was banned, it's a pretty funny story.

Onwards into the new week!

~By Maddy