How Many “One Man’s Meat” Are Enough? Yesterday I took a late morning drive to my favorite used book store — it’s just a half hour from the Spill’s headquarters, tucked away down a rural lane. On my way I realized it might not even be open — it being a holiday. Even if it’s not open — I
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Back To The Book Barn Yesterday’s gloomy Charles Addamsy weather caused me to want to take a drive north to Columbia County to my favorite used book store, Rodgers Book Barn in Hillsdale, New York (Spill readers might remember this post about Rodgers from a few years back). The reason it’s fun to drive there in “weather” is because of
Read moreFrank Modell’s Brendan Gill I came away from a recent visit to my favorite (used) book store, Rodgers Book Barn in Hillsdale, New York with the brochure handed out at Brendan Gill’s memorial back in 1998 (see the details of the tribute below). I’m indebted to one of my book store haunting friends, Mark Burns for digging the brochure out
Read moreFave Bookstore Find of the Day The other day while browsing around my favorite used bookstore, Rodgers Book Barn, with two New Yorker pals (John Cuneo and Danny Shanahan) the above book caught my eye because of the Thurber drawing. My eyes widened when I realized I had never seen this particular book before (or had I?). It turned out
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