Jeff Deutsch with Rick Simonson, " In Praise of Good Bookstores"

1521 10th Avenue,Seattle WA 98122

18 April, 2022

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Jeff Deutsch (Seminary Coop) with Rick Simonson (The Elliott Bay Book Company): In Praise of Good Bookstores Jeff Deutsch with Rick Simonson In Praise of Good Bookstores Monday, April 18 at 6 p.m. :: Live & In-Person at Elliott Bay Book Company Registration is optional for this event. Along with everything else booksellers were doing these past years with the pandemic, Jeff Deutsch, the director of Chicago’s Seminary Co-op Bookstores, was working on and finishing a splendid book on the work and place of bookstores in our communities and in the world - past, present, and future.. In Praise of Good Bookstores (Princeton University Press) draws on personal stories, anecdotes, experiences, and the day-to-day life of things at Seminary, a store unique for its dedication to scholarly works, and to carrying a deep, extensive backlist, as well as on the writings of others, citing how books come to us, as we come to them, what that meeting place ideally is. “A promiscuously erudite love letter to bookstores, books, readers, writers, and the unique community that they constitute, Deutsch’s hypnotic book is generously laced with memorable and often hilarious quotations, and offers the exquisite pleasures of browsing through the book-lined mind of an omnivorously literate reader and bookseller.”—Wendy Doniger. “A compendium of delights for the thoughtful reader. Deutsch, a gifted writer and riveting storyteller, has written a concisely elegant topography of the good bookstore that also illuminates the seemingly opaque craft of bookselling. This book is bound to be the fulcrum of discussions—among readers, booksellers, editors, and publishers—about the meaning and role of bookstores.”—Paul Yamazaki, City Lights Bookstore.