(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 …
Eagle Harbor Book Company will bring National Poetry Month to a rousing conclusion Thursday with a celebration of the store’s annual limerick contest, what they’re billing as an evening of “recitation, revelry and ribaldry.” The contest is now in its fourth year and has been a huge success—by poetry contest standards. The store has even …
