Like most of you, I've been hearing a lot about Melissa Plaut's book Hack: How I Stopped Worrying About What to Do With My Life and Started Driving a Yellow Cab lately. Her memoir is getting lots of play (for example, this excerpt/reading at NPR.)But I hadn't realized that Plaut's book stems from the blog … Continue reading Taxi!
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Weird Wisconsin–Part Two
A while ago, I posted about the Wisconsin bookstore housed in a manure tank converted to be a castle. (Read that here.) There was an exterior picture, but now I'm pleased to be able to show you the inside, too:
Sure, But an Hour Later You Can’t Find the Book Again
We spend a lot of time labelling our books, categorizing them, and putting them on the shelves in order. Is it time wasted? It is according to the owner of Shanghai's Dukou bookstore. In an article in today's China Daily, Xiao Gao throws cold water on the whole organization thing: "Unlike most bookstores, books here … Continue reading Sure, But an Hour Later You Can’t Find the Book Again
Musings from Magers and Quinn 