Is your country estate lacking a certain something? Do your friends think you're an intellectual lightweight? The good folks at bookdecor.com can help you out. They're selling antique leatherbound books--most of them written in Danish, but also in French and German--by the foot and by the yard.I'm oddly in tune with Book Decor's sales pitch. … Continue reading Books by the Foot
See for Yourself
Nam Le, author of the new short story collection The Boat, is getting a lot of good press lately. See these reviews in the Minneapolis Star Tribune and the New York Times, for example. NPR chose his book as one of its nine Summer Reads and has posted an exerpt.Le will be in our store … Continue reading See for Yourself
Dutch Treat
An article in the travel section of today's New York Times takes readers to Amsterdam and the idiosyncratic bookstore Boekie Woekie. The store sells only books by artists--no mass-produced glossy tomes here--and limited-edition prints and photographs. But the store's bestseller isn't a book at all. It's vacuum cleaner bags full of the dust off the … Continue reading Dutch Treat
Musings from Magers and Quinn 