Each bookstore owner has a definition of literature promoted in his or her shop. For example, in Parnassus on Wheels, the fictional bookseller Roger Mifflin has his own interpretation of literature’s function in society. The character believes that the book is...
Laurence Roth | Nov 18, 2013
Space and Objects: An Evolution The evolution of Gotham Book Mart (GBM) can be observed through examining the way in which the space of its locations, and the objects that inhabited these spaces, changed over time. More specifically, in this post I am going to...
Laurence Roth | Nov 13, 2013
In late 1919 Frances Steloff came upon a vacant basement store front on 45th Street in New York City. That day, she went into work at Fredrick Loeser’s Department store in the rare books section and told her boss, George Michke, that she was going to rent out the...
Laurence Roth | Sep 30, 2013