It didn’t work. Last week, being the time I normally leave my bookselling life behind and drive up to my writer’s shack in the Canadian wilds, I determined to foil international travel restrictions and make a virtual journey to a virtual writer’s shack in virtual Canada. What didn’t work about it was that virtual Canada […] More >>
Archives for April 2020
Oh, Canada!
Okay, New York is over and done, as is Ephemera 2020 (RIP!). I’ve got a good stash of rares for my next high-octane list, and I’ve been working hard cataloging the chowder (good books, but not great – if they were fish, they’d turn into chowder rather than sushi). In the past month I’ve published […] More >>
WFH
Well, the day has finally arrived. In this morning’s Sunday paper the acronym “WFH” appeared – not as an instance of subculture geek talk, but as a common designation, like ADD or DOA – applied as a descriptor to a class of people, like “boomer” or “undocumented alien.” The gist of the newspaper article was […] More >>
Coronadiary 4/6
I wonder how Dennis and Cricket and my favorite raven-haired bartender are doing down at Halibut Point, my dive of choice, my “downtown office,” drinking and chatting of a Saturday afternoon in the reality adjacent to this one, in which everything is just as it has always been? The birds in nesting frenzies on my […] More >>