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Gary Goodman
Goodreads Author
Born
in Rolla ND, The United States
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Genre
Influences
John McPhee, Ian Frazier, Janet Malcolm, Arthur Krystal
Member Since
September 2021
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The Last Bookseller: A Life in the Rare Book Trade
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published
2021
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“Okay, so I know I’m not the last bookseller. People still sell books. But I’m one of the last of a certain kind of bookseller. The kind that for six hundred years rooted around basements, book bins, and bookstores looking for, sometimes, rare books or, more often, secondhand books. They were the hunter-gatherers of the book business, the travelers and pick-ers, who spent their lives saving books that might otherwise have been lost. They are, now, nearly extinct, driven to ground by the machines—the cell phones, personal computers, and, especially, the internet—that replaced them at the end of the twentieth century.”
― The Last Bookseller: A Life in the Rare Book Trade
― The Last Bookseller: A Life in the Rare Book Trade
“Okay, so I know I’m not the last bookseller. People still sell books. But I’m one of the last of a certain kind of bookseller. The kind that for six hundred years rooted around basements, book bins, and bookstores looking for, sometimes, rare books or, more often, secondhand books. They were the hunter-gatherers of the book business, the travelers and pick-ers, who spent their lives saving books that might otherwise have been lost. They are, now, nearly extinct, driven to ground by the machines—the cell phones, personal computers, and, especially, the internet—that replaced them at the end of the twentieth century.”
― The Last Bookseller: A Life in the Rare Book Trade
― The Last Bookseller: A Life in the Rare Book Trade
“I was sent an advanced proof of “The Last Bookseller” — due out in November — and highly recommend it, partly for Goodman’s portrait of a lost world, but also for its colorful dramatis personae. Goodman once knew a book scout — the biblio-equivalent of an antiques picker — who “was so far off the grid he lived in the woods under a tarp. Michael Dirda, Washington Post”
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