
When the World is small

an abandoned chest of roistering literature for the drunk and rampant reader.


– Courtesy of The Paris Review


The Mouse’s Tail
All About Eve:: Bette Davis
“On the Waterfront” Monologue

Forced to close up shop: The owner of A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books (named after Hemingway’s short story) stated, “It’s the passing of an era. It may be that the golden age of bookselling is past.”