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“His name was Horatio Brown. A throwback,” I said, smiling at the memory. “The type who kept a bottle of whiskey in his desk. Smoked three packs a day. Would occasionally flip through a thick file of his favorite dirty photos that he’d snapped on the job. Believed, as a physical rule of the universe, that every client was lying to him. In that, I’v
... See moreDann McDorman • West Heart Kill: A novel
Sarah McNally considers herself a humble bookseller while also being the founder and owner of an ever-expanding empire, McNally Jackson, now likely the third-largest buyer of books in the city, after only Barnes & Noble and the Strand. She is a thumb on the scale of cultural life in the city. She hosts several book groups at the stores and privately runs several more. Hang around literary circles long enough and word will reach you that she is reading "Middlemarch" with Claire Danes and Hugh Dancy and has read Clarice Lispector with David Byrne and Esther Perel. Her New York is a place where we are all only one read away from our best selves, lacking only the space to dig in. She is there to provide. “I want people to know that they can trust us with their reading life, that this is not a sloppy nor commercial project,” she said with characteristic fervor. "I am working at the limits of my ability and doing so for what I believe is a good cause: the life of the mind in New York City." Link in bio. Photo: @jeremy_liebman
instagram.comwearing a hundred-dollar brown silk sports shirt and yellow linen golf slacks, was making notes with a gold pencil in a leather notebook. He put the notebook into his hip pocket and crossed the blue-carpeted room to talk to two men who said they were from Waycross, Georgia, John and Irwin Peeples.
Charles Willeford • Miami Blues (Hoke Moseley Detective Series Book 1)
It’s author,
Sloane Crosley • Grief Is for People
undaunted. But at his layover in Paris he meets his match: a surprise
Andrew Sean Greer • Less (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Novel (The Arthur Less Books Book 1)
Highfalutin.”