Amy. What a brilliant synopsis of so much. And gifting culture …such a spark. I’ve read this to four people. I am discussing which subscription to support your work with Dave.
I concur about The Gift. I read it for a poetry workshop taught by Sharon Olds. She assigned it (in 1987). I've never stopped thinking about it, but it's a while since I re-read it. Also, thanks for the comic!
I've been read the posts. I'll share a bookstore story I hope is relevant.
I was in Manhattan on Monday. My daughter Goldali reads more than anyone I know, all sorts of things-- she said, "Let's go to Book Culture." Is by Columbia.
I wasn't paying much attention but as things came into focus when we entered I said, "This is Laybyrinth Books! I spent many many hours here!". The name had been change but they kept the sign.
I find books their I'd never run into anywhere else because it's curated and it's by Columbia. But then she brings me a book. She told me she thought I should read it. Then she came back the person's second book.
You know those moments when you're risking a very personal recommendation and it's not the novel that won the prize. It's the one you read first. She put the prize book back and left the one she'd read.
Until now, I've never given much thought to the factors that contributed to the store's survival. It's changed with the neighborhood. It has a more of a mix of literary bestsellers and back lists of books by newly discovered authors.
Anyway-- you know. Going to the bookstore with the readers in your family. A year or two ago I overheard a 25 year old trying to piece together we're he used to come with his parents when he was five.
I know-- these are all just anecdotes like a gazillion more. I'll have to think about where Buffalo Street Books fits in for me now.
Amy. What a brilliant synopsis of so much. And gifting culture …such a spark. I’ve read this to four people. I am discussing which subscription to support your work with Dave.
I concur about The Gift. I read it for a poetry workshop taught by Sharon Olds. She assigned it (in 1987). I've never stopped thinking about it, but it's a while since I re-read it. Also, thanks for the comic!
I've been read the posts. I'll share a bookstore story I hope is relevant.
I was in Manhattan on Monday. My daughter Goldali reads more than anyone I know, all sorts of things-- she said, "Let's go to Book Culture." Is by Columbia.
I wasn't paying much attention but as things came into focus when we entered I said, "This is Laybyrinth Books! I spent many many hours here!". The name had been change but they kept the sign.
I find books their I'd never run into anywhere else because it's curated and it's by Columbia. But then she brings me a book. She told me she thought I should read it. Then she came back the person's second book.
You know those moments when you're risking a very personal recommendation and it's not the novel that won the prize. It's the one you read first. She put the prize book back and left the one she'd read.
Until now, I've never given much thought to the factors that contributed to the store's survival. It's changed with the neighborhood. It has a more of a mix of literary bestsellers and back lists of books by newly discovered authors.
Anyway-- you know. Going to the bookstore with the readers in your family. A year or two ago I overheard a 25 year old trying to piece together we're he used to come with his parents when he was five.
I know-- these are all just anecdotes like a gazillion more. I'll have to think about where Buffalo Street Books fits in for me now.