Burke's Book Store

06/18/2026

Secondhand Spotlight: Sarah J. Maas

Just in, a mass of Maas, used copies, first editions and boxed sets. Available in-store or online at burkesbooks.com.

06/13/2026

Cool dogs, cool floors, cool books---at Burke's Book Store.

(This is Dale, our bookstore-dog-in-training. Come visit with Dale at Cooper Young Night Out, first Thursday of the month, 5 to 8 p.m.).

06/12/2026

Preorder your signed copy of MEMPHIS MOVIE TWO (available July 2026) by our very own COREY MESLER. https://www.burkesbooks.com/pages/books/1041023/corey-mesler/memphis-movie-two-the-recrudescence-of-eric-warberg

A most improbable adventure in filmmaking is happening once more in the city on the bluffs of the Mississippi. Along for the ride are some old faces, some new faces, a few ghosts, and a handful of movie stars. While a sequel to Memphis Movie, the new novel is also a love story, a book about books, and a paean to the sempiternal Southern hoodoo of Memphis.

"Corey Mesler has an encyclopedic knowledge about books, movies and Memphis and when you whip them all together with a dash of zany and rapid-fire dialogue, you’ve got Memphis Movie Two: the Recrudescence of Eric Warberg, a fast-paced, wild romp, complete with suggested cast."
---Jill McCorkle, author of Old Crimes and Other Stories and Ferris Beach

06/11/2026

Pup of the day: this is Atlas.

06/10/2026

Pup of the day: this is Pingu.

06/09/2026

Pup of the day: this is Huchon.

06/08/2026

Pup of the day: this is Lucas.

06/08/2026

Talking to Ourselves

by Philip Schultz

A woman in my doctor's office last week
couldn't stop talking about Niagara Falls,
the difference between dog and deer ticks,
how her oldest boy, killed in Iraq, would lie
with her at night in the summer grass, singing
Puccini. Her eyes looked at me but saw only
the saffron swirls of the quivering heavens.

Yesterday, Mr. Miller, our tidy neighbor,
stopped under our lopsided maple to explain
how his wife of sixty years died last month
of Alzheimer's. I stood there, listening to
his longing reach across the darkness with
each bruised breath of his eloquent singing.

This morning my five-year-old asked himself
why he'd come into the kitchen. I understood
he was thinking out loud, personifying himself,
but the intimacy of his small voice was surprising.

When my father's vending business was failing,
he'd talk to himself while driving, his lips
silently moving, his black eyes deliquescent.
He didn't care that I was there, listening,
what he was saying was too important.

"Too important," I hear myself saying
in the kitchen, putting the dishes away,
and my wife looks up from her reading
and asks, "What's that you said?"

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06/07/2026

Cats of the day: this is Brie and Gorgonzola.