Bitter much?
10. Editors—who have forgotten the editorial craft—for servicing the marketing department, pursuing fast results and name recognition over quality of content and offering authors the Faustian bargain of fame and fortune, while pleading their best intentions like goats.
After almost thirty years, Avenue Victor Hugo bookshop - the winner of the best used bookstore in Boston in 2003 - has closed. However, their website is still up with a list of “Twelve reasons for the death of small and independent book stores” from The Hound by John Usher. The list is more accusatory and stern then I would ever venture but interesting enough. I’m truly sad to seen another bookshop fold, especially one with such a fantastic cat icon as their menu tabs on their website.
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Oh no! I’ll be there this weekend to pay respects. The Black Hole, indeed - extrication impossible.
That’s a terrific and scathing letter. Someday I’ll have the time to write the essay about booksellers in New York that I have had percolating in my head for the last decade…
What’s going to happen to Blue?
He’s going to live with a long time customer and friend of the store’s. Poor Blue Bart.
Brian, I worry about what else you have percolating in that head of yours — but I do know that I want mine with lots of sugar.