I was cleaning out my motor vehicle, disposing of a handful of parking meter receipts that accumulate on the dashboards of cars in large American cities. As I deposited my trash in a receptacle, an open book nearby caught my eye. Someone had dropped or thrown a book, and it had landed open against a… Read more »
“The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.” —Theodore Roosevelt “We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don’t have books, don’t fuck them.” ― John Waters When I first moved back… Read more »
When I first started putting out books a little more than twenty years ago, Barnes and Noble was known in the business as “the Elephant.” The chain was the Elephant in the room—the big, not-quite-gentle threat that you could neither ignore nor play without. The old joke was that if the Elephant invited you to… Read more »
