Name: Jason Smith Bookstore: The Book Table Title: Co-owner Brief Bio: Jason began selling books in 1991, moving from one Chicago independent bookstore to another. In 2003, he and his wife, Rachel Weaver, opened The Book Table in Downtown Oak Park, IL. What books recently rocked my world: Nick Harkaway’s Angelmaker, Ted Heller’s Pocket KingsContinue reading

You don’t have to play, or even understand, poker in order to love Ted Heller‘s third novel, Pocket Kings.  In this dead-on satire of online obsessions, a novelist with writer’s block finds a new–and very lucrative– stream of income in a virtual world that appears to give him everything he lacks in the real one.Continue reading