Curtains!
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This is not a story about how books are good and the Internet is evil, nor is it about how modernity has vanquished antiquity and, therefore, doomed posterity.
Although.
The Bookhouse feels like a safe house. It announces itself, barely, with tiny lettering on the front porch. It is for stumbling upon, a anachronism in a universe ordered by Google at a time when life is completely searchable and the exhaustive hunt for a vellum-jacketed gem has been reduced to a simple tap on a touch screen.
It’s a love story about two people and their books, falling in love with each other, falling in love with the pages. It’s so cute you won’t believe it’s true, but it’s the kind of thing no one could believably invent.
Julia Child posing with Tattered Cover owner Joyce Meskis at her booksigning in 1995 for her book In Julia’s Kitchen with Master Chefs (out of print), the companion to a PBS series Julia Child: Lessons with Master Chefs.
A page from our Tattered archives: Joyce Meskis, Tattered Cover owner, and cohorts through the years, now celebrated the 40th Birthday of the founding.
Tattered Cover staff in 1979, four of whom are still with the bookstore today: Joyce Meskis, owner; Matt Miller, general manager; Cathy Langer, lead buyer; and Laura Snapp, all-time most brilliant bookseller.
Homage to a fellow-indie bookstore
Powell’s City of Books, located in Portland, Oregon, is the world’s largest independent used and new bookstore. City of Books occupies a full city block and stocks more than a million used and new books.
(Photo by Randy Kashka)
