Learn How To Build A Home Library
This Saturday, November 12th Landmark Books will offer another workshop in their continuing Book Collecting 101 series. The workshop will tackle How To Build A Home Library. The event is free and will feature a special guest from Sheffield’s Fine Furniture to discuss different shelving options and how to pick out the best type of bookcases to […]
2016 Haiku Contest Winning Poem On Sale Now!
Last year Landmark Books partnered with Squirrel Cane Press to offer our first ever Haiku contest. For those who are unsure what a haiku is, here is the definition from the Academy of American Poets: A traditional Japanese haiku is a three-line poem with seventeen syllables, written in a 5/7/5 syllable count. We had few expectations when […]
Landmark Books Turns Three
October 1st marks our third year as Landmark Books. It has been a year full of growth and change as we continue to settle into our store. We have seen author readings, a birthday party and crowned a new King of the Beats of Traverse City. Here is a brief selection of events and excitement […]
Happy Birthday William Golding
British novelist, playwrite and poet William Golding was born on this day in 1911. He is best remembered for his Nobel award winning novel, “Lord of the Flies”. Golding was also awarded the Booker Prize in 1980 for his novel, “Rites of Passage”. During his career he published fourteen novels, a collection of poetry and […]
Landmark Books Fights Censorship
Banned Book Week 2016 is a week worldwide event that celebrates the freedom to read anything you want. In the United States it is supported by the American Library Association and is usually the last week of September. This year the dates are September 25th through October 1st. During this week we help draw attention […]
Learn To Clean And Maintain Your Typewriter
For those who love their typewriters, you know they need to be cleaned and maintained. And that means more than just changing the ribbon. On September 10th at noon I will demonstrate how to clean a typewriter and also what you need to do to maintain your machine. I have listed some of the basics […]
Upcoming Events At Landmark Books
Landmark Books has some exciting things happening over the next four months, here is a list of a few things we will be featuring. We hope to see you at the store! September 10, 2016 Typing 101: Cleaning and Care; Begins at Noon We will show you how to clean and maintain your manual typewriter. […]
Landmark Books Presents Terry Wooten Friday Evening
Landmark Books is proud to have poetry legend Terry Wooten in the store for a special reading and book signing Friday July 17th. Terry has been a part of the poetry community in Northern Michigan for over thirty years. Over that time he has taken his poetry from sea to shining sea reading all over […]
Unplug and Type-In At Landmark Books
On this day in 1868 a patent (US 79,265) was issued to Christopher Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden and Samuel W Soule of Milwaukee, Wisconsin for what they called the ‘type-writer’. Their machine was purchased for $12,000 by Densmore and Yost who peddled the design to E Remington and Sons. The Sholes Glidden Type-Writer went into […]
Lady Chatterley’s Lover Banned Today!
On this day in 1959 the United States Postmaster General banned D.H. Lawrence’s book,’ Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ under the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act. It would go on to banned in almost every nation with printed words. Portions of the book first appeared in 1928, printed by a private press in Florence, Italy. The publisher Tipografia Guintina […]