Hello, readers. Thanks for your kind emails during my half-year hiatus. We’ve had much happening at the loft, and outside events have essentially taken over my life for the past six months. They include family illnesses, freelance work, readings, radio interviews, a lot of spouse time, legal maneuverings, and a host of other matters both […]
Our favorite of the rapidly-thinning herd of massive chain bookstores, Borders, is still on the ropes, and barely able to protect itself from body blows raining down on it. One month ago, the former CEO of Borders U.K., Philip Downer, published a point by point dissection of how management ran Borders into the ground. His three […]
Two weeks ago I was treading the boards for Beneath Stars Long Extinct in the beautiful city of Portland. For the past twenty years, the United States has seen chain superstores expand in the book retail business faster than the national debt. With their Walmart-like invasion across the dark fields of the republic, as Fitzgerald […]