My Years at the Gotham Book Mart with Frances Stelloff, Proprietor - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook My Years at the Gotham Book Mart with Frances Stelloff, Proprietor write by Howard Koch. This book was released on 2009-09-11. My Years at the Gotham Book Mart with Frances Stelloff, Proprietor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This short story was written in 1984 by one of Hollywood's finest screenwriters, until he was blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1950. During the 1940s, he was responsible or partially responsible for such great films as The Letter, The Sea Hawk (both 1940), Sergeant York (1941) and Casablanca (1942), for which he shared an Oscar with his co-writers.
My Years at the Gotham Book Mart with Frances Steloff, Proprietor
My Years at the Gotham Book Mart with Frances Steloff, Proprietor - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook My Years at the Gotham Book Mart with Frances Steloff, Proprietor write by Matthew Tannenbaum. This book was released on 2009. My Years at the Gotham Book Mart with Frances Steloff, Proprietor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The proprietor of the present "The Bookstore" in Lenox, MA, the author reflects on working early on at the legendary Gotham Book Mart on West 47th Street in New York City. He writes, "I am very fortunate to have found Frances Steloff, founder of The Gotham Book Mart, when I was a very young man, and she turned me into the bookman that I have since become. . . . to speak of Frances Steloff's Gotham Book Mart is to remember the entire twentieth century in belles-lettres." Tannenbaum provides anecdotes and vignettes of Steloff as well as some of the many literary figures he met after serving in the Navy during the Vietnam war, including Tennessee Williams, Galway Kinnell, Anne Sexton, Archibald MacLiesh, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, J.D. Salinger ("a guy I almost tripped over one morning"). Steloff opened the Gotham in 1920, starting "a literary salon in the middle of New York City in the most wonderful time of its own history." Among those there: Martha Graham, Christopher Morely, Mencken and Dreiser, and Anais Nin. Steloff had her "battles with the censors, the court dates, the time she was actually arrested and only an 11th hour phone call to Bennett Cerf of Random House kept her out of prison." This charming memoir is enriched by the author's wonderment, drinking it all in with such memories as the weekend he "walked all over Manhattan . . . wearing e.e. cummings' fedora."
Wise Men Fish Here
Wise Men Fish Here - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wise Men Fish Here write by William Garland Rogers. This book was released on 1965. Wise Men Fish Here available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Bookshop
The Bookshop - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Bookshop write by Evan Friss. This book was released on 2024-08-06. The Bookshop available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A spirited defense of this important, odd and odds-defying American retail category." —The New York Times "It is a delight to wander through the bookstores of American history in this warm, generous book." —Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author and owner of Books Are Magic An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cultural life, from department stores to indies, from highbrow dealers trading in first editions to sidewalk vendors, and from chains to special-interest community destinations Bookstores have always been unlike any other kind of store, shaping readers and writers, and influencing our tastes, thoughts, and politics. They nurture local communities while creating new ones of their own. Bookshops are powerful spaces, but they are also endangered ones. In The Bookshop, we see the stakes: what has been, and what might be lost. Evan Friss’s history of the bookshop draws on oral histories, archival collections, municipal records, diaries, letters, and interviews with leading booksellers to offer a fascinating look at this institution beloved by so many. The story begins with Benjamin Franklin’s first bookstore in Philadelphia and takes us to a range of booksellers including the Strand, Chicago’s Marshall Field & Company, the Gotham Book Mart, specialty stores like Oscar Wilde and Drum and Spear, sidewalk sellers of used books, Barnes & Noble, Amazon Books, and Parnassus. The Bookshop is also a history of the leading figures in American bookselling, often impassioned eccentrics, and a history of how books have been marketed and sold over the course of more than two centuries—including, for example, a 3,000-pound elephant who signed books at Marshall Field’s in 1944. The Bookshop is a love letter to bookstores, a charming chronicle for anyone who cherishes these sanctuaries of literature, and essential reading to understand how these vital institutions have shaped American life—and why we still need them.
Tropic of Cancer (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
Tropic of Cancer (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tropic of Cancer (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) write by Henry Miller. This book was released on 2012-01-30. Tropic of Cancer (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Miller’s groundbreaking first novel, banned in Britain for almost thirty years.
