Seattle
Well, readers, I’m on vacation this week, which means, among other things, visiting bookstores I’ve never visited before. My fellow travelers generally allow me one per city.
There is was. A first edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. It was in its original dust jacket. Pristine, it was.
Miles Standish glares at you from a shelf. Nearby, so does Little Orphan Annie. She's on the cover of a book so small you can fit the entire tome in the palm of your hand.
Seattle, one of America's Most Literate Cities has been hard hit on the literary front of late.
