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Politics and Prose for sale

By Matt Jakubowski ⋅ June 23, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

In continuing independent bookstore coverage… D.C.’s famous Politics and Prose bookstore is on the block and the the lead-up to the sale has become something of an event, as described in this Times article. Apropos of comments about this earlier post, “Like any independent bookstore, Politics and Prose is a reflection of its owners’ personalities. ‘It’s like going [...]

“All our poets talk to each other,” or, Hand-selling among the Moderns

By Levi Stahl ⋅ April 29, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

A couple of days ago at my own blog I briefly mentioned a new collection from Columbia University Press of the letters of Sylvia Beach, owner of Shakespeare and Company, publisher of Ulysses, and champion of Moderns. The book offers the expected mix of straightforward business letters–
I enclose a letter that I have just received [...]

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