The former Rizzoli bookstore is a staging area for hard-hat crews.
At Amazon's bookstore, this carefully staged view of the architectural backstage serves as an acknowledgement, conscious or not, of the online retailer's own back-of-house.
In early December, in San Francisco, Dylan stopped by Lawrence Ferlinghetti's bookstore, City Lights, where Ferlinghetti was staging what came to be called the Last Gathering of Beat poets and artists (five years after the "funeral" at Robert Cordier's apartment).
El Ataneo Grand Splendid: This theater-turned bookstore even has a cafe on the stage.
ON Monday night, the irrepressible Mr. Kaplan spent an hour in a Borders bookstore cafe in Mount Kisco, N.Y., bouncing around a stage discussing his book.
The room, a bookstore in Edinburgh, was nerve-rackingly personal: no lights, no stage, no distance between Truscott and the front row.
I wasn't waiting in a random line in a random store in a random city; I was waiting in my college bookstore, surrounded by people in close proximity with shared ambitions and life stages.
A small stage was set up on the third floor of the bookstore, near the "Law" and "True Crime" aisles.
"I think Beijing's entered a new stage in its development," said Alex Pearson, a longtime British expatriate, bookstore owner and friend of Mr. Kitto who is also leaving China this summer.
Thrown together in the sort of D.I.Y. style Mr. White pioneered in the 1960s, ThirtyDaysNY was staged by two recent visitors who run Family, a cult indie bookstore in Los Angeles.
