Burke's Book Store

Burke's Book Store Burke's Book Store Since 1875, Burke's has provided Memphis with the finest selection of new, used, and rare books.
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Located in the heart of the Cooper-Young neighborhood, in midtown Memphis, Burke's Book Store is one of the oldest independent book stores in the country.

Preorder your signed copy of MEMPHIS MOVIE TWO (available July 2026) by our very own COREY MESLER. https://www.burkesboo...
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

Pup of the day: this is Atlas.
06/11/2026

Pup of the day: this is Atlas.

Pup of the day: this is Pingu.
06/10/2026

Pup of the day: this is Pingu.

Pup of the day: this is Huchon.
06/09/2026

Pup of the day: this is Huchon.

Pup of the day: this is Lucas.
06/08/2026

Pup of the day: this is Lucas.

Talking to Ourselves     by Philip SchultzA woman in my doctor's office last weekcouldn't stop talking about Niagara Fal...
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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Cats of the day: this is Brie and Gorgonzola.
06/07/2026

Cats of the day: this is Brie and Gorgonzola.

Pup of the day: this is Tillie.
06/06/2026

Pup of the day: this is Tillie.

Pup of the day: this is Edgar.
06/05/2026

Pup of the day: this is Edgar.

Address

936 S Cooper Street
Memphis, TN
38104

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 6pm
Tuesday 10am - 6pm
Wednesday 10am - 6pm
Thursday 10am - 6pm
Friday 10am - 9pm
Saturday 10am - 9pm
Sunday 12am - 5pm

Telephone

+19012787484

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