A good noir convention should always wind up at a vast and labyrinthine book shop. Philadelphia filled the bill with
Noircon 2014 and
Port Richmond Books. Photos by your humble blogkeeper, Peter Rozovsky, except where physically impossible.
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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 |
© Peter Rozovsky 2014 Labels: Andrew Nette, Anita Thompson, Christa Faust, Ed Pettit, Jedidiah Ayres, NoirCon 2014, Port Richmond Books, Scott Adlerberg, Suzanne Solomon, William Lashner
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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