Entries by Craig

Call for Registration: Atlantis hosts the Santorini Odoiporikon Photography Workshops, April 19-22 and 26-29

Atlantis Books is proud to announce two weekends of guided photographic journeys across Santorini with the renowned Tzeli Hadjidimitriou, the talent behind our favorite Greek photography book, 39 Coffee Houses and a Barbershop. The Odoiporikon covers three days and three nights during the peak of Santorini’s most beautiful season, when the spring grass glows green and […]

200 and Still New

Charles John Huffan Dickens was born on this day two hundred years ago. He grew up a “very small and not-over-particularly-taken-care-of boy.” His parents could only afford one child’s tuition and so they chose to send his sister Fanny to music school. Charles soon found himself twelve years old, his father in prison, his days […]

Burn a Candle for the Man

George Whitman died today. Our hearts are with Sylvia, the Shakespeare and Company family, and all of Paris. It’s a bit dimmer in the City of Lights tonight.

Festival Reax: Seal of Regal Approval

Harriet Lye and Rosa Rankin-Gee have written a flattering take on our festival weekend for Harriet’s swish Literary Arts Magazine Her Royal Majesty. Support their cause, buy an issue – it’s quite a piece of work and it’s for sale online and, as of this month, at our shop as well. Thank you ladies for […]

Episode 3 in the Works

Get Up At Once fans, rejoice: First of all, episode 2.5, “Sounds Like Caldera Festival” will be hitting the waves any minute now. Here’s a taste: Lucky Ladies and Gentlemen, we give you Ross Sutherland: [audio:https://atlantisbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/Ross.mp3] (Download here so you can play it at my funeral.) And just as importantly, The inimitable Ed Dowie has […]

Caldera Arts & Literature Festival

If you happen to be in the neighborhood this weekend of November 4-6, stop by Atlantis Books for our grandest celebration of fine things. The schedule of events, all of which take place at Atlantis Books, No mikos Street, Oia: Sunset (17:30) Friday, November 4: A Culinary exhibition and tasting hispersonalbest by celebrity Greek chef […]

Get Up At Once, Episode 2: What Took Us So Long?

The long-awaited, given-up-on, and now resurrected second episode of the bookshop radio show is ready for streaming and download. 90 minutes of great music, shop news and updates, some stories about bookshop personalities, and ancillary ruminations.

SUPER 8

STARTS TODAY. Bon chance and congratulations Pauline.