Bookseller, baker, ricotta-cheese maker. I'm a reader, a wannabe writer, have a mothballed J.D., and am little bit crazy. These are the days of my lives.
Posted in adventures in retail, book snob on Jul 25th, 2010
It’s been a strange week in Book Wobegon. After a week of hitting every sales goal, selling memberships like it was the newest style on the catwalk, and people rolling in off the street to demand they be hooked up with that Danged Digital Reader Device they’ve all got to sell, things have gone […]
Posted in adventures in retail, book snob, books, links, writing on May 31st, 2010
The Sunday Times Book Review has an article about a new book– a transcription, really, and I’ve read the advance copy, it’s well worth the read– of an interview between the late, great David Foster Wallace and the Rolling Stone reporter and writer David Lipsky as Wallace is doing his book tour after Infinite Jest […]
Posted in adventures in retail, book snob, nerd on Sep 20th, 2009
That’s what they call it, when a book is ordered in higher numbers (or ordered at all) than what the Inventory Gods of corporate decide should be sent to all stores in a given market. Now– we’re in the Boston area market, which is a Major Market to just about beat all besides New […]