Raman's Blog

I just read Lewis Buzbee’s book Yellow-lighted bookshop. I liked it a lot. It is his memoirs about bookselling experience and about his book-lust. Book also covers general history of book printing and selling. It’s a nice book written in a simple and cool way. I found a lot of useful bookstore’s names and other tips. Below I am going to record the things which I find useful for myself.

Book-stores (near bay area) ::

- Booksmith (SFO , Haight Ashbury Dist)
-City Lights book store (sfo north beach)
-Black Oak books ( SFO , used books )
-Hicklebee's (San Jose, Children's books)
- Tower Records (Book/Record stores)    
-Abebooks.com (website for used book stores)
- B Dalton (San Jose, not sure if it still there)

Book trends/tidbits/books:

- Book Business by Jason Epstein
- A heartbreaking work of staggering genius ( memoirs by Dave Eggers; his magazine McSweeny’s )
- Howl by Alan Ginsberg (first published by Citylights store)
- use of POD (print on demand) technology
- Ulysses by James Joyce (first published by Sylvia Beach’s Paris store Shakespeare & co)
- Don Quixote ( a great book )
- In search of lost time ( Proust)
- The grapes of wrath ( John Steinbeck , the book which started the book disease for Buzbee)
- The Long Valley ( Favorite Steinbeck book for Buzbee)
- Will you be quiet, please (By Raymond Carver)
- The sound and the fury (by William Faukner)
- The Essays of E B White
- Higglety Piggelty Pop by Maurice Sendak
- The Tall Book of Fairy Tales
- Great Children’s stories (Volland edition)
- A Farewell to arms ( E Hemingway)
- Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
- If on a winter’s night a Traveler ( by Italo Calvino )