The end-cap of the week award goes to 24 year old Martha Pettite of San Francisco's The Booksmith. Her display, titled "My Awesome Literary Mix CD," pairs 18 literary works with a musical counterpart.Pettite says she was "inspired by the song Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush; Todd (also a Booksmith staffer) and I were discussing what a great song it is and I relayed the story of a friend who also loved the song but had no clue that it was a reference to Emile Bronte's novel"1.”Killing an Arab” –The Cure (The Stranger by Albert Camus)2. “Tear in Your Hand”-Tori...
"You’ll never find us and we’re rarely open."
Lloyd and Lenore Dickman are booksellers with perhaps one million books. But they don't advertise, don't keep regular hours, and are located on a farm in rural Wisconsin. Oh, and one of their twelve (!?) buildings-full-of-books is in a former manure tank remodeled to look like a castle. Bill Geist recently profiled this charming and wildly-endearing couple for CBS.Now, I have to go check plane fares to Wisconsin...UPDATE (5/23/08): Recently came across the store's exact contact info/location: County Road K in Markesan, WI. 920-398-3375.
Book Bench
This is the book bench. It resides at the center of the editorial offices of the New Yorker magazine."On any given day, it overflows with hardcovers and galleys, kindly shipped to us by publishers, plus older tomes that people have cleared out of their toppling shelves...When an e-mail is sent out announcing the arrival of new stacks, it is not unlike a drop of blood entering shark-infested waters. Newcomers to the magazine, shocked by the frenzy, are gently reassured by an editor: “But it’s for books.”It is also the namesake of a new blog from the New Yorker, The Book...
A Bookcase-Sofa? Finally, a good reason to become a couch potato…
(the Oltre from Flexform)Pant. Drool. Swoon. Buy. [Via].
Thou Shall Not
Old Chained BibleFrom Memorials of Old Hampshire Edited by Rev. G. E. Jeans, M.A., F.S.A., London, Bemrose and Sons, 1906.Under the bible lies The Knight Hospitaller’s Tomb. Bible dates from 1620 and both reside at North Baddesley Church.via From Old Books