National Bookstore Day: A Great Day for a Signing
If you don't see ELEMENTAL, The Power of Illuminated Love, in your local bookstore please ask the manager to order it.
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National Bookstore Day, November 7, 2009, has to be one of the best ideas anybody has come up with to help celebrate and preserve literary culture in our digitally-revolutionized age in a very long time. It gives me a perfect excuse to scrape up a few bucks and splurge on books other than those needed for research. But now that I think about it a bit more, it also should have been a good excuse to schedule a book signing somewhere. That's ok though--now that it has been established, there's plenty of time to plan for next year.
I have a number of favorite bookstore haunts that I would sing about and recommend to any lover of the printed word. I also used to work at a favorite haunt which is no longer in business: it was called Media Play and I was the book department manager until family issues prompted me to resign. Fortunately, a former employee took, and hand colored, the photograph that you see here. I like to think it illustrates just how much I appreciate the presence of books in the world.
Aberjhani's attempt to climb the bookstore ladder of success :-)
(photo by Vickie Williams)
I also wrote about a very special event at an independent bookstore that still exists in Savannah's Historic District and embodies all those qualities that make such stores a lasting and resurging breed. The piece is posted right here on Red Room and I invite you to read it at this url: http://www.redroom.com/blog/aberjhani/on-silence-and-words-finally-spoken
I hope you enjoy it.
Aberjhani
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Steve Hauk says:
Your piece _ and you on the ladder _ reminds
me of all the great old book stores in New Monterey, California, most of which are now gone.
* Aberjhani says:
The funny thing is that
The funny thing is that Media Play was a multi-media store with four major departments--in addtion to the books, we carried music, computer software, and videos. I was always impressed by the company's commitment to maintaining a stellar selection of books in a stylishly appealing and atmospheric manner. It made me feel very much as if I was a guardian of one of those "great old bookstores in New Monterey."
Aberjhani
author of The American Poet Who Went Home Again
and Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance (Facts on File)
Dera Williams says:
Favorite Bookstore
Love this piece. I have been a fan of yours since I visited Savannah in 2006. Love your writings.
* Aberjhani says:
Thank you Dera for remembering me
I remember you because I associated your name with that of my sister Vera. You were the first Dera I'd ever met :-)
I just read your piece on Marcus bookstore and will also comment there.
Aberjhani
author of The American Poet Who Went Home Again
and Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance (Facts on File)