Podcast appearances and mentions of len vlahos

This week Len Vlahos joins us to talk about his work, including THE SCAR BOYS, SCAR GIRL, HARD WIRED, and LIFE IN A FISHBOWL. Find out more at https://lenvlahos.com and follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/lenvlahos, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/LenVlahosAuthor/, and on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/len.vlahos/. Thank you to all of our listeners for your continued support, including our Patrons at https://Patreon.com/BeyondTheTrope. Don't miss out on exclusive Beyond The Trope merch over at https://beyondthetrope.redbubble.com. Mentioned in this episode: GIRL ON THE FERRIS WHEEL by Julie Halpern and Len Vlahos Rocky Horror Picture Show (Movie) Cobra Kai (TV Show) Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (TV Show) Occulus Quest 2 Vader Immortal (Video Game) READY PLAYER ONE by Ernest Cline World of Warcraft (Video Game) The Sims (Video Game) Sim City (Video Game) Second Life (Video Game) Arthur C. Clarke THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams GULLIVER'S TRAVELS by Jonathan Swift Monty Python Graham Chapman THE ROAD TO MARS by Eric Idle STARSHIP TITANIC by Terry Jones Powell's Tattered Cover Peter Buck R.E.M. (Band) LeVar Burton Comic Con Fan EXPO Pierce Brown Tamora Pierce THE NAME OF THE WIND by Patrick Rothfuss WISE MAN'S FEAR by Patrick Rothfuss

A conversation with author Len Vlahos, owner of Tattered Cover in Denver. 

New co-owner of Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver Interview starts at 19:56 and ends at 43:00 “Bookstores have evolved over the years to become very much experiential retailing, and we're no different.” News “Amazon Prime Day breaks record; sales grew by more than 60 percent” by Lauren Thomas at CNBC - July 12, 2017 (includes video of analyst Jan Kniffen) Amazon press release on Prime Day - July 12, 2017 Furbo Dog Camera Stillhouse Lake by Rachel Caine Tech Tip Libby by OverDrive CloudLibrary Interview with Len Vlahos Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver Books by Len Vlahos: The Scar Boys, Scar Girl, and Life in a Fishbowl Starred reviews of Life in a Fishbowl in Publishers Weekly and Booklist Al Franken, Giant of the Senate by Al Franken - Audible and Kindle The Chaos of Standing Still by Jessica Brody - available for preorder, delivery on November 28, 2017 “SNL writer-turned-senator Al Franken talks Colorado politics ahead of Denver stop” by John Wenzel at The Denver Post - June 14, 2017 Tattered Cover Event Calendar Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

In this episode we discuss John Corey Whaley's Highly Illogical Behavior. Ca$h Money (aka Amanda Money) suggests Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. Molly suggests Ann Brashares' books (in particular the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants) and Lauren Myracle's Internet Girls Series (start with ttyl). Lindsey suggests Fans of the Impossible Life by Kate Scelsa and Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan. Nate and Kim suggest 100 Sideways Miles by Andrew Smith. Nate suggests Porcupine of Truth by Bill Konigsberg, Scarboys by Len Vlahos, and Marcello and the Real World by Francisco X. Stork.

Welcome, friends, to episode 7 of Drunk Booksellers! We’re here with Sam Kaas, Events Coordinator at Village Books in Bellingham, WA.   Epigraph Bitches in Bookshops Our theme music, Bitches in Bookshops, comes to us with permission from Annabelle Quezada.  Introduction   [0:30] In Which We Reminisce About the Good Ol’ Days and Emma Only Has Time to Read Books About Productivity Currently drinking: Left Hand Milk Stout from Longmont, Colorado. Emma’s reading The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home by Catherynne M. Valente, The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God & Other Stories by Etgar Keret, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande (also mentioned: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen, The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More by Chris Anderson, Naked Money: A Revealing Look at What It Is and Why It Matters by Charles Wheelan)   Sam’s reading Clinch by Martin Holmen (pubs 7 June), Goodnight, Beautiful Women by Anna Noyes, A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth L. Ozeki   Kim’s reading Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens by Steve Olson, A Life Apart by Neel Mukherjee (also mentioned: The Lives of Others), Curb Stomp by Ryan Ferrier   New/forthcoming books we’re excited about: Welcome Thieves by Sean Beaudoin Dodgers by Bill Beverly (pubs 5 April) The People in the Castle by Joan Aiken (pubs 26 April) Scarlett Epstein Hates It Here by Anna Breslaw (pubs 19 April) Tuesday Nights in 1980 by Molly Prentiss (pubs 5 April) The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing (also mentioned: The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking) All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister (also mentioned: Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own by Kate Bolick) Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye   Chapter I   [18:04] In Which We Discuss Radioactive Bookworms, Lawnmowers, and What Makes a Good Event     Chuck Robinson wrote a book about opening Village Books & Paper Dreams: It Takes a Village Books: 30 Years of Building Community, 1 Book at a Time Shout out to Watermark Books in Anacortes, WA. Another shout out to Third Place Books (opening a new store this year in Seward Park). If Tom Robbins requests a pocket road map of Venezuela, don’t question it, just get him one. Len Vlahos is a rockstar. Here’s proof:   Shit. Wrong image. I meant this:   See? Rockstar. I mean, he’s also a bestselling author and co-owns a little store in Denver, CO called The Tattered Cover. NBD. In other celebrity news, check out Chuckanut Radio Hour. Our favorite events tip: People shouldn’t be calling to ask if there’s an author event tonight, they should be calling to ask what the event tonight is. (hat tip to the fine folk at Elliott Bay Book Company [Kim pumps her fists in victory, even though she has absolutely nothing to do with events at EBBC]) Originally posted by mtv   So, yeah, you should check out Village Books’ event schedule, ‘cause it’s pretty great. Chapter II   [33:37] In Which Sam Builds Us His Wheelhouse, Discusses e-Reading, and Emma and Kim think dedicated e-readers are necessary for e-reading. You can buy one here.    [sign from @wordbookstores​] Kim can’t count. “A novel trying to answer big difficult questions and not necessarily succeeding but at least giving it a go.” = 19 words, not 16, but Sam still succeeded in the 20 Word Wheelhouse Challenge   Emma will read anything blurbed by Kelly Link. Sam will read things blurbed or compared to George Saunders or Sara Vowell. Also books about musicians. (Emma recs Rob Sheffield. Kim recs Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein) Chapter III   [43:25] In Which We Discuss Book Problems in the Apocalypse, Kim & Emma Learn About Cities in Canada, and Sam & Emma Get In a Fight Sam’s Station Eleven book: Ulysses by James Joyce, assuming Shakespeare has been saved by wandering bands of theater nerds Sam’s Wild book: Lyrics & Poems 1997-2012 by John K. Samson (songwriter, rhythm guitarist, & singer of The Weakerthans) Emma and Kim are embarrassingly uninformed about Canadian geography, so in case anyone was wondering, here’s Winnipeg:   Sam’s Reader Confession (a la Bookrageous, Episode 85): Sam believes he might be the only millennial to not finish the Harry Potter series. Emma has lost all respect for Sam. We move on (kind of).   Sam’s go-to handsells: City of Thieves by David Benioff and The Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess Walter Sam’s impossible handsell: A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James Epilogue   [53:50] In Which Sam Has Never Met a Bookstore He Hasn’t Liked and Discusses His Luddite Cynic Award Sam’s favorite bookstore (aside from Village Books): Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park, WA Sam’s favorite literary media: LitHub, BookRiot, The Paris Review’s Art of Fiction interviews, and old-school physical magazines (such as The New Yorker) Despite the fact that Sam has the Luddite Cynic Award hanging on his fridge and is the last bookseller on Earth not on Twitter, you can hang out with Sam and his mom on Facebook. Or email Sam at sam@villagebooks.com. UPDATE: Just before we posted this episode, Sam made himself a Twitter account. Go welcome him. You should probably follow us on Twitter @drunkbookseller if you’re not doing so already. We’re pretty okay. Emma tweets @thebibliot and writes nerdy bookish things for Book Riot. Kim tweets every few months or so at @finaleofseem. Make sure you don’t miss an episode by subscribing to Drunk Booksellers from your podcatcher of choice. Also, if you read this far in the show notes, you should probably go ahead and rate/review us on iTunes too. Share the love, y’all.

Tattered Cover co-owner, former punk-rocker, and young adult author Len Vlahos performs and discusses his new novel Scar Girl, the sequel to his bestselling debut novel The Scar Boys. Love, music, and heartbreak take the stage in this critically-acclaimed second novel. Told as an interview with the band after they reach the pinnacle of success, […]

Chief Executive Officer of The Tattered Cover Book Stores   Interview starts at 10:03 and ends at 42:09   I think it would be interesting for independent booksellers to experiment with selling eBooks directly, because it's become much less device-centric. Tablets have in some ways normalized that world, and the notion that someone could build an open-source eReader app and that we could have direct relationships with publishers and sell eBooks is something I think worth exploring down the road. But it's not a part of our core business. Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Google do what they do really well. For us, we have limited resources and limited brainpower. I'd rather see us make our stores even better than focus a lot of energy on that.   News “Amazon exec to run digital efforts of Italy's government” by Angel Gonzalez at The Seattle Times - February 10, 2016 Diego Piacentini featured on Amazon employee page “Working at Amazon” web site - includes signup for receiving email updates Amazon organization chart February 2016 Author Earnings Report “Digital Arachnid: What Does Author Earnings Say to the Industry?” by Porter Anderson - February 9, 2016 “My Bias (again)” by Hugh Howey - February 12, 2016 “Amazon's bookstore buzz hits San Diego” at the Lost Angeles Times - February 11, 2016 Shelf Awareness “Amazon Books Roundup” - February 12, 2016 (scroll down to find it)   Tech Tip Amazon.com help page showing which Kindle you have “Critical Software Update for Kindle E-Readers” at Amazon.com   Interview with Len Vlahos The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) “Len Vlahos, ‘The ABA Guy,' to Publish YA Novel" by Judith Rosen at Publishers Weekly - October 23, 2013 The Scar Boys by Len Vlahos “Joyce Meskis is selling Tattered Cover Book Stores after 41 years” by Aldo Svaldi at The Denver Post - March 26, 2015 Kobo eReaders and eBooks available for purchase at The Tattered Cover website Blue Ink Review Brewing Beneath the Perk: My Journey through a coffee shop business..to Me by Teri Meehan, reviewed in Blue Ink Review Tattered Cover Press: Books on Demand Scar Girl by Len Vlahos - available for pre-order (hardcover only), delivery March 1   Content Harry Potter: The Complete Collection by J.K. Rowling (Kindle) - now $56.64 instead of the brief bargain price of $14.99 earlier this week.    Postscript with Uber Driver Deb Brown (42:09 to 43:00) The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh (Link is to paperback copy at The Tattered Cover's website)    Next Week's Guest Jesper Bugge Kold, author of Winter Men , an AmazonCrossing translation available for pre-order with delivery on March 1, 2016. You can get a free copy now via Kindle First if you are an Amazon Prime member.    Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Persepctive" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD.    Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!