Chekhov's Mistress
Dependent Children of Independent Bookstores
After moving in August, Gotham Book Mart has finally opened their main floor. I had made many hopeful visits in the mean time and found only a smallish first floor that was too nice and too small to make a decent bookstore.
Now it really is everything that an independent bookshop should be: overwhelming shelves packed with new and used books with a focus on serious literature. The space is huge and if I had any complaint it would be that the dimmish fluorescent lights detract from the otherwise warm room.
Gotham has retained their old system of segregating some of their favorite authors to thorough sections of their own and mingling the used with the new. Poetry lovers will rejoice over the unparalleled selection of major and little-known writers and just so everyone feels special, classics – as in the Greeks – have their own section too.
There are still boxes laying about and there’s not yet any signage. In fact, when I was there, there weren’t even any customers. So if you live in the City, head over and make them feel welcome in their new home. Buy something. I did.
The address:
16 East 46th Street (less than 200 yards from the old location)
Subways in order of proximity:
7 5th Ave/42nd<br />
B, D, F, V 47th St.
4, 5, 6, S, 7 @ Grand Central Station
Read widely, think well, and write often.
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: October 30, 2004
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