Tuesday, Jun 03, 2014

First a bit of explanation and a bid for your kind patience. This new site of ours obviously requires hours and hours (if not days and weeks) of adding and refining new titles, current titles, photos, descriptions, etc., and of course nothing is ever fast enough for us. Please, PLEASE bear with us. We’re trying. We’re trying hard. And we’ll get there. (But nowhere near soon enough for us, and maybe also not soon enough for you.) The thing is, we’re booksellers — booksellers who absolutely love what we do, and we want everything to be exactly right. Our standards are high, as they should be. And we know yours are too. That’s why we’re trying so hard to make it all work absolutely PERFECTLY.

Before we get back to the work at hand, we thought you'd enjoy a few little items of interest, literary-related bits of trivia which we intend to publish here with a degree of regularity.  Here's a sampling for today:

Many authors invariably needed to pay the bills.  Here's how some of them managed to do so --

William Faulkner was a postmaster, a bank teller, and a clerk in a bookshop.

Henry Miller was a department manager for Western Union.

Charles Dickens labored in a shoe polish factory.

Kurt Vonnegut ran a car dealership.  (Saab, as a matter of fact.)

Richard Wright was a mailman.

Thoreau worked in the pencil factory owned by his dad.

Arthur Conan Doyle was an ophthalmologist.

Langston Hughes was a busboy.

And Louis & Harvey sell all their books.