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…
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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…
July 27, 2016
Oregon epilogue: Sometimes A Great Notion
Heading back to the East Coast, I leave behind the novel I finished on the way West – a bit of a “throw away” book: “L’homme intérieur”, a book offered…
July 26, 2016
Full stop: Portland
As I end this trip in Portland, the first obvious stop had to be Powell’s, the “city of books”. It keeps its promise of gigantism, complete with a colored-and-numbered coded…
July 25, 2016
Bookstore animals
I had read rumors of cats in the bookstores: a sign announced an “Attack Cat On Duty” at both Book Bin I visited, in Salem and Corvallis. Rose, the attack cat of…
July 24, 2016
My frontier for this trip
When I reached Prineville in the late afternoon, there was no bookstores to be seen, though there were books in one of the windows of the block-long “Neat Repeat” store….
July 23, 2016
A parenthesis… or not
When I left Klamath Falls this morning, the bookstore, Basin Book Traders, was still closed; a lone reader sat on the bench placed outside the strip-mall store. So, I thought, this…
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