As the dearly committed group of Brown and Dickson aficionados, and a fine-looking group to boot, you deserve the first crack at the fantastic titles that emerge from the depths of our store. We make this happen through a variety of methods. The first is our deeply unfair to the plebes Members section. Another is our request file, a lo-fi recipe card box filled with the dreams and aspirations of fellow book nerds. Other people have lists. Assassins have lists. Elderly Thank You card writers have lists. Side quest hungry gamers have lists. We have a stack of cards filled with names and desires. We’ve mentioned it to you before, but it is worth repeating. Why not get an even better chance at having that rare and odd and (hopefully) affordable book by telling us what exactly you are looking for in your collection? We will record your name with the well honed penmanship of previous generations (long live cursive) and ink the authors and titles of your deepest longings down beneath it. Jason sees his request card as the only way his name will ever share a list with George Trakl, Dennis Lee, and M.F.K. Fisher.
This might be a good week to fill in some holes in your collection, after all. A kind soul has sold us a whack of near fine condition fine literature paperbacks. Broadviews, Penguins, Oxford University Presses. It was a beautiful box of white and black spines. This is the juicy stuff: Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Virginia Woolf, H. Rider Haggard, Bret Easton Ellis (wait. what?), Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Simone de Beauvoir. That list makes no sense but it is BULGING with name-dropping and as booksellers we cannot resist. Add three new David Bowie titles and you have a VERY solid members new arrivals list.
But why are we pitching you? YOU! You, the beautiful members, you already know that these books are awesome. YOU tell us how your shelves are bursting like a Victorian bodice. Perhaps you’re like that one customer whose collection is slowly inching across her house walls like tentacles from Lovecraft. Or maybe you’re like that other customer whose cookbook collection has impractically taken over her space for pots and pans. Or maybe you’re like that OTHER customer of ours whose front room is a masterpiece of cobbled, self-built bookcases nailed to the wall, housing mainly Folio Society titles. Damn his library is nice. Maybe your collection is like ours, strewn in piles on the floor, surrounded by chairs and blankets, where dogs and babies hang out with humans, reading and dreaming.
Give us your requests. Tell us your needs. And, as always,
Much love,
Jason and Vanessa
Weekly, starting June 14, 2023 from 7 – 9 pm at our office, 32 Albion St.
Join Vanessa on Wednesday evenings to workshop your manuscript and get it ready for publication. Fiction and non-fiction projects are welcome.
Classes will be held every week from 7 – 9 pm over a total of 8 sessions and include homework assignments and peer review to further your skills as a writer. In between classes, there will be online communication available between classmates, and with the instructor.
Class is limited to 10 slots.
