tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9410840.post-51719562465453990842008-03-17T11:53:00.000-07:002008-03-17T12:08:38.474-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/imageDB.cgi?isbn=9780061240379"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 120px;" src="http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/imageDB.cgi?isbn=9780061240379" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Greetings from Chicago everyone, it's your friendly roving nonfiction acquisitions editor, Alex A.G. Shapiro. I'm reading <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.powells.com/partner/25548/biblio/0061240370">My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro</a></span> by Jeffrey Eugenides (Editor), and a business book called <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.powells.com/partner/25548/biblio/1400064287">Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die</a></span> by Chip Heath, Dan Heath. On deck is Charles Bock's much ballyhooed debut, <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.powells.com/partner/25548/biblio/1400066506">Beautiful Children</a></span>.<br /><br />-<a href="http://shapishap.tumblr.com/">Alex Shapiro</a>, contributing editorMatt Borondyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00808239856224352060noreply@blogger.com