I was fortunate to attend an event remembering Dylan Thomas on the 61st anniversary of his death, November 9, hosted by my friend Peter Schulman and New Directions, Thomas’s longtime publisher. Pictures, reportage, and links at my Storify post and below.
There are many NYC bookstores where I enjoy browsing and shopping, such as Three Lives in the West Village, Book Culture in the Columbia neighborhood, and Westsider Books & Records, but I was really glad to see in Shelf Awareness this morning that the Village Voice has named Brooklyn’s Book Court New York’s Best Bookstore. I don’t live in Brooklyn, so I don’t visit the store–run by a family, Henry Zook and his son Zack, all that often–but I agree it’s a terrific bookstore, with strong sections in many subject areas, and a packed events calendar. Having run a bookstore from 1978-85 with my siblings and our parents, Undercover Books in Cleveland, Ohio, I know how challenging it is to run a family business, any business, and particularly a bookstore.
Congratulations to the Zooks, and everyone who works and shops at Book Court!