Dewey died trying to decimal this system.Each week, the Daily Telegraph in Great Britain holds a travel Big Picture competition, and last week Alby Ball of Harrow, Middlesex, won a Nikon Coolpix S640 camera, worth £249.99 ($396), for this photograph of a well-stocked bookshop in Shiraz, Iran.Lovers of old book shops in the West will fondly recall this as once being a common sight; now, alas, lost to the Internet. Book lovers of a certain stripe will recognize their living room.
Partisanship Goes Retail: Book Store Slaps Conservative Hands
Rough political partisanship, having now officially supplanted baseball as America's favorite pastime, has raised its feral literary head and, like the pixilated elephant who walked through the wrong door and wound up in a donkey show, is making an obscene ass of itself.True Compass by Edward M. Kennedy is getting the treatment usually associated with Karl Rove in his Nixon dirty tricks days, and a book store has had to lay down the law and order:"CONSERVATIVES! PLEASE STOP FLIPPING OVER AND DEFACING THE BOOKS ABOUT LIBERAL POLITICIANS. THIS BOOKSHELF IS NOT YOUR BLOG"Now, lest Conservative readers of Book Patrol have...
Big Box Retailer Refers Customers To Indie Bookshop, Earth Shifts on Its Axis
Hard evidence of the existence of a parallel universe has recently surfaced, delighting physicists, confounding naysayers, and blowing the minds of independent book shop lovers.Tesco, the British super-supermarket chain that sells, amongst other non-grocery items, books, is, at its Wirral store in Liverpool, promoting the indie bookshop across the street in an effort to improve community relations.Through signage in its book department, Tesco is advising its customers that:“For a wider selection of titles and book-buying advice, why not cross the road to Lingham’s, where the specialist staff would love to help you.”Lingham’s has faced tough competition from the corporate behemoth,...
Book Store Provides Speed-Shrink Psychotherapy
Wednesday nights in lower Manhattan’s SoHo district have gotten a little saner. The Housing Works Bookshop Café, which donates 100% of its profits to Housing Works, Inc., a social enterprise, is offering psychotherapy to its customers and neighborhood denizens in three-minute doses for those whose therapists are on vacation or who require a quick jolt of personal problem advice.You’d think that three minutes wouldn’t allow enough time for introductions much less delving into the dark recesses. But Jonathan Fast, one of the eight psychiatrists and psychologists who staff these Wednesday nights and who is also a professor at Yeshiva University,...
At Least They Call It Junk
Are there too many books in the world?Start here:End here:click to enlargeThe book section of the Jurby Junk shop on the Isle of Man.Top image viaBottom image via