Regulator News
“You have the power to define yourself — remember that power; take that control. It’s like a superpower, really, to be whom you want to be, to do what you want to do, to fly where you want to fly. Your life will get more complicated, but think of it as a great adventure, every damn day. You’re going to have fun.” - Randall Kenan
In Memoriam: Randall Kenan
As for so many, the death of Randall came as such a shock to us at the Regulator. Some of us go back with him to his first days at UNC and recall long conversations about James Baldwin, the man he so admired and whose writings he wrote about so wonderfully.

He was a great friend of our bookshop. The announcement of a new work from his gifted story-telling imagination, rooted in Duplin County, always created excitement among the staff. He performed readings from every one of his books on our stage. A week before his passing, we were discussing a planned virtual event for his new collection If I Had Two Wings - ten often comical and tragic stories filled with brilliant social commentary.

His metier was the short story, but he also was a terrific essayist. One of his finest essays is also one of his most personal, "Scuppernongs and Beef Fat: Some Things about the Women Who Raised Me," found in the wonderful collection Mothers and Strangers: Essays on Motherhood from the New South.


We have lost a friend and a powerful voice in contemporary in literature. 
Educator & School Library Wish Lists
Did you know that you can create a Wish List via our website? Anyone can do it, and then send their wish list to friends and family (ie "Wander's Christmas gift wish list"). It's a perfect way for local teachers and school librarians to request books for their classrooms and libraries! Unfortunately, these folks often don't have enough funding or budget to purchase books they find important for their students. This is where we can all help!

Teachers and librarians, it's easy to create a Wish List via our website:
  • Just select a book you'd like to add, and then select "add to wish list."
  • If you don't have a Regulator account already, it will direct you to do that, and will show you how to add others to your list or create multiple lists.
  • Once you have your list set (you can always add to it later), you can email a link to the list to anyone you'd like (PTAs, parents, neighborhoods, friends, and family). Folks can also search our list of Wish Lists for yours (search window in the lower right-hand column of our home page).
  • These people can then purchase these books for you and help you grow your collection.

Educators, once you've created a list, and shared it with your group of supporters, let us know by sending an email to regulatorbookshop@gmail.com to give us a heads up (and same if you have any questions), and we'll hold onto your books as they come into the shop. Then you can arrange to pick them up at a time that works best for you!

Spread the word! Help your school and your kids!
Front Table Books
Fall is a great time for new book releases! We're really excited about these titles and wanted to make sure you had the chance to explore them too. Click on the image to find out more and/or order the book for in-store pickup, delivery, or USPS shipping to your home.
Freedom: An Unruly History
by Annelien de Dijn
Beowulf: A New Translation
by Maria Dahvana Headley
Transcendent Kingdom
by Yaa Gyasi
His Truth Is Marching On:
John Lewis and the Power of Hope
by Jon Meacham, afterword by John Lewis
The Lying Life of Adults
by Elena Ferrante, 
translated by Ann Goldstein
Tales from the Ant World
by Edward O. Wilson
All the Devils Are Here
(Chief Inspector Gamache Novel #16) 
by Louise Penny
Nathalie Sarraute: A Life Between
by Ann Jefferson
Not a Novel: A Memoir in Pieces
translated by Kurt Beals
The Saddest Words:
William Faulkner's Civil War
by Michael Gorra
New Regulator Events!
9/8 - Robin Kirk, "The Hive Queen" Release Discussion
On Tuesday, September 8th, at 7pm, we will be hosting a Zoom reading and discussion with Robin Kirk on her new book, The Hive Queen. Samuel Montgomery-Blinn will be joining us to lead the discussion.

The second in the INDIE-award-winning Bond Trilogy, warrior Fir leads his brothers on a quest for salvation that will threaten everything he holds dear.

To participate, just click here for the Zoom Registration link for this event.
Robin Kirk is the author of the The Bond Trilogy for young adults, which includes the INDIE Award-Winning "The Bond" (2018) and "The Hive Queen" (2020), both with Blue Crow Books.

Her short fiction has been published in Tomorrow, an anthology of speculative fiction from Kayelle Press, in Beyond the Nightlight, an anthology published by A Murder of Storytellers, in The Moon Magazine, and in other venues. She won an honorable mention in the Chicago Reader’s 2014 Pure Fiction contest.

Kirk is a Faculty Co-Chair of the Duke Human Rights Center and is a founding member of the Pauli Murray Project. She is a lecturer in Duke’s Department of Cultural Anthropology. She is a graduate of the University of Chicago and holds an MFA in Children’s and Young Adult literature from Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Samuel Montgomery-Blinn is a full-time Durham software engineer and part-time speculative fiction critic. He founded and published Bull Spec magazine and then founded and currently administers the Manly Wade Wellman Award for North Carolina Science Fiction and Fantasy.
9/8 - Afrotopia: A Conversation with
Felwine Sarr and Maboula Soumahoro
Click on the image above for more information about this event.


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We thank you for your continued support! We love that we are able to provide words for escape, entertainment, education, and illumination to help get us all through these times.
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