Life in a Northern Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. B.M.A.T.C., and Etruscan typewriter erasers. Blogged by David Gorsline.
Friday, 25 July 2003 
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The Gotham Book Mart's building at 41 West 47th Street, after two years on the market, has been sold. I'm glad that we made the time to visit the last time that I was in New York, in the spring of '02. I found the huge collection of John Ashbery poems there, the one that I'm desultorily reading at. Peter Soter, a Gotham employee, said that any relocation by the bookstore was probably months away, adding that with four floors and a basement jammed with reading material - in a building with no elevator - it would take "a month at least" to move everything out.I liked the place, but it was so stuffed with books that browsing wasn't that much fun. Many of the bookcases were double-shelved, and it was just too much trouble to pull all the Mc's off the shelf to look for an inexpensive copy of James McElroy's Lookout Cartridge. Leta found a couple of theater books, and she didn't mind browsing the windows of the surrounding jewelry stores, either. As I recall, she then got into a conversation with someone practicing a form of street-corner evangelical Judaism. posted: 11:21:56 AM |
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