One reason things look worse in publishers' offices than on bookstore floors is that retailers have been cutting back on their orders in anticipation of slower sales.
Since opening in 2014, this homey bookstore with floor-to-ceiling shelves has become a beloved neighborhood meeting spot.
I had discovered "The Last Jew" by chance in a Brooklyn bookstore, and, floored by it, I tracked down the rest of his books that had been translated into English; each was wildly original, and the only thing they had in common was that they were all out of print.
GAGOSIAN GALLERY The most interesting exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery's 980 Madison Avenue headquarters is the ragtag "Portraits of America: Diane Arbus/Cady Noland," tucked into the ground floor bookstore (which has its own entrance, at 976 Madison).
Owner Bijan Khalili, who also owns the Ketab Persian Bookstore on the floor below, estimated that the center gets 2,000 calls a day.
Books on display in the party's first-floor bookstore are thinly veiled diatribes on the power of racial supremacy with titles such as White Power.
Watching all of this from the second-floor bookstore, the overhang of which had been transformed into a sort of disco balcony, was a white-haired gentleman, dressed in neat jeans and a pressed shirt.
Browsing the history section of a bookstore, I was floored by the book jacket description because I was at the demonstration that turned violent that day in Madison – my 20th birthday.
Jorge Pardo, a Los Angeles artist, has covered the vast expanse of the bookstore and first-floor gallery with a tile mosaic in lime, sky blue, orange and, the giveaway, avocado.
After checking out the exhibitions — there is always more than one — I'll leisurely browse in the ground-floor bookstore, have a snack in the cafe, sit and read for a while in the imposing atrium and then spend the evening seeing a movie or attending a play or concert: in addition to its multiple galleries, the center has two cinemas and three theaters.
