August 21, 2016
Freewheelin’ at Oxford’s Square Books
Leaving Memphis for the day, I head South to Ox ford, MS., a town billing itself as “the cultural Mecca of the South”. As I walk around the town square…
Month: August 2016
August 19, 2016
I’ve been to Memphis… and did not find Tournier
So here I am in Memphis, and I did not find Tournier. No “Midnight Love Feast”, nor any of his other books – but, more surprisingly, no “Confederacy of Dunces” either….
August 16, 2016
Grounds for New Hope and small press
That weekend, the road initially led to Sculptor’s Way, in Hamilton, NJ, for a summer tour of Grounds for Sculpture, a park created in 1992 by J. Seward Johnson. Sometimes…
August 10, 2016
The ‘kindfulness’ of bookstore signs
For this first in a series to be continued, three bookstores signs – coincidentally, all from Powell Books, in Portland, Oregon. Where we find a recommendation for my old nemesis…
August 07, 2016
“The World’s Borough” first Book Festival
Ever been to a show where there were more people on stage than there were in the audience? That was a bit the feel of the first edition of the…
Book roamin' 