"Because Murder is More Fun Away From Home"
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| Christa Faust |
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| Anita Thompson, Suzanne Solomon |
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| Andrew Nette, Ed Pettit |
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| Jed Ayres and I re-enact an ancient Noir at the Bar ritual |
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| Scott Adlerberg |
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| William Lashner |
Labels: Andrew Nette, Anita Thompson, Christa Faust, Ed Pettit, Jedidiah Ayres, NoirCon 2014, Port Richmond Books, Scott Adlerberg, Suzanne Solomon, William Lashner
posted by Peter Rozovsky at 4:01 PM
This blog is a proud winner of the 2009 Spinetingler Award for special services to the industry and its blogkeeper a proud former guest on Wisconsin Public Radio's Here on Earth. In civilian life I'm a copy editor in Philadelphia. When not reading crime fiction, I like to read history. When doing neither, I like to travel. When doing none of the above, I like listening to music or playing it, the latter rarely and badly. Click here to find an independent bookstore near you.
4 Comments:
I look at the photos of the bookstore, and I want to move. I could live IN the bookstore. My pulse races just looking at the photos. Egads!
What a shock. A Blogger error eats a comment.
Several of Noircon's out-of-town visitors reacted as you did. And if you enjoyed the photos, you might like my nest post, to come later tonight.
The bookstore photos induced a flashback: I was once again in a dusty, cluttered, dimly lighted bookstore on Liberty Avenue in Pittsburgh in the early 60s. It was first encounter with a "real" bookstore. I made my first book purchase with my own money. It was a used trigonometry textbook; I never mastered the subject but I loved the book. Most of those are gone now. Barnes and Noble stores and the other megastores are an abomination by comparison.
Gee, what a shock. Goddamned Blogger is still eating comments.
There can't have many like Port Richmond Books even in the heyday of American literacy. And don't forget the neighborhood's wonderful pierogi.
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