(Editor’s Note: We’re re-posting this interview with veteran Bainbridge Island bookseller Mary Gleysteen on the occasion of her retirement from Eagle Harbor Book Company. The store’s staff posted a tribute and farewell to her here and we talked with some other unhappy people here.) Mary Gleysteen says it was reading Song of Solomon by Toni …
“There is no doubt that Mary Gleysteen is the best bookseller ever to walk the boards of our store, and we will miss her terribly. She retires from bookselling at the end of this month.” That’s just a touch of the sentiment shared on behalf of the staff of Bainbridge Island, Washington’s Eagle Harbor Book …
“Glenn Rockowitz, a writer and comedian, was 28 years old and mere months away from becoming a father when he was diagnosed with cancer. I have never read a memoir that was as honest and heartbreaking and yet somehow funny at the same time. His story can only be described as amazing.”—Andrew, Eagle Harbor Book …
“Never have I been more compelled by a novel whose main character’s traits and ethics I have every reason to abhor. This 1999 winner of Britain’s Booker Prize opens with the sexual exploits of a university professor in Johannesburg, who then moves, as a consequence of his actions, to his daughter’s rural landholding, where a …
“There are no dysfunctional families in this novel. Murray Tepper isn’t searching for his inner self and he isn’t the product of a miserable childhood. He’s simply a New Yorker who likes to park his car, usually in a coveted spot, so he can sit in it and read the paper. This annoys some, and …
It’s a job, but there’s a good chance it’s more than that for your local independent bookseller. This note comes from John Willson, a poet and a bookseller at Eagle Harbor Book Co. on Bainbridge Island, written for the store’s customer newsletter and honoring his longtime coworker and manager, Paul Hanson, who is leaving after …
Last year the enterprising booksellers at Eagle Harbor Book Company on Bainbridge Island, WA, realized that they could produce their own books and have them printed at their fellow booksellers’ Book Making Machine. After talking about the details with their colleagues at Village Books in Bellingham, WA (a world away in NW terms), Eagle Harbor’s staff …
