As attested by my several brushes with bankruptcy, I am not a particularly quick study when it comes to finance and economics. This troubled me early in my career, when it seemed possible that any novice bookseller could become Bill Reese simply by working hard. However, time went on and I found my place in […] More >>

I know it seems premature, but in this dicey post-Covid reality, we’re having to schedule things way far ahead. So I thought I’d better let you in on our plans for New York Book Fair week, 2023. We had so much fun last year that we’ve decided to reprise our stay at the fabulous Lombardy […] More >>

I’m here to tell you, folks, the Boston Book Fair was lovely. Move in and load out were smoother and faster than they’ve ever been. The hall was its usual resplendent self, and the odor of all that fresh carpet… Well, I suppose the closest thing is that New Car Smell. We were rarin’ to […] More >>

  Man, that was hard! This November 11-13 will be the first live Boston Book Fair  in three years, and I’ve sorta lost the knack. (Booth 406. Stop by and cheer me up.) I’m mean, I’ve been back on the road since last winter, doing live book fairs in California, Hartford, New York, Greenwich, etc., […] More >>

Suddenly it seems there’s no end to the incoming stream of intellectually-serious-but-not-very-valuable books pertaining to various aspects of what our advertising blurbs refer to as “The Sea and its History.” In Seattle last month I stumbled onto the remains of such a collection and purchased all I could of it. Then last week, when I […] More >>