Recently, a little resentful of the variability we laughingly call “summer” here in the Great North West, a cold tourist asked a bookseller in my hearing just what one could predict when stepping out in Seattle? “Crows,” replied my unruffled coworker. True enough. “Morning arises stormy and pale No sun, but a wannish glare” Now, …
“In a restless world like this is,” as the song used to say, our customers can always go . . . elsewhere. That’s what makes the loyal ones such a boon and a comfort, no? Well, find me a more faithful body of readers, a better bunch of folks and better customers than the Science …
Welcome to the revamped NWBookLovers.org! As you take a look around the new site, you’ll see that it feels more like a traditional blog than the old version and that we’ve got a bunch of new voices—all while hanging on to the best of the old site: the Face Outs, the author interviews and essays, …
Cruising around on the University Book Store’s site the other day, we found the online home for one of our favorite pieces of bookstore merch from the last few years, the USED BUT NEAR FINE T-shirt (here for women’s, here for men’s). Remember? Longtime buyer Nick DiMartino wore it in this pic with his interview …
Here we are thinking about some wispy fun summer reads and somehow William Makepeace Thackeray’s Vanity Fair slips into the pile. For this, we owe Brad Craft, one of the used book buyers from University Bookstore in Seattle. The ever-charming Craft blogs that July 18 will be Thackeray’s 200th birthday and he was shocked that there …
“Like an old shoebox full of family snapshots, some happy, some faded, some blurred and some very dark indeed, A Common Pornography makes a brutally honest collage of the author’s childhood. The voice is recognizable and true, the memories alternately familiar and disturbing. A dreamy kid makes construction-paper 45’s of his future hit records. A …
One of our favorite curmudgeons is at it again, bemoaning and praising public librarians in one long breath. What Brad Craft loves is what the libraries offer. What he hates is the way some people treat the libraries, both staff and patrons. At least that’s my reading of his diatribe. Craft has been reading aloud …
At Used Buyer 2.0, Brad Craft, who we always refer to here as Our Favorite Curmudgeonly Bookseller, blogs about the scary stories he and fellow booksellers will be reading Saturday afternoons throughout October at the University Book Store in Seattle. For his turn, Craft read Saki, also known as Hector Hugh Munro, who Craft, always …
Sixty people showed up Wednesday evening, April 28 at the University (of Washington) Bookstore’s main location in Seattle to listen to a reading of Helene Hanff’s classic (1948) 84 Charing Cross Road by employees Brad Craft and Pam Cady. The video is a bit basic, and you may need to turn the volume up, but …
