Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores

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   Footnotes From The World's Greatest Bookstores - Bob Eckstein

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Based on the popular series for The New Yorker is a collection of illustrations and anecdotes from around the world, celebrating beloved bookshops and the people who work (and shop) in them. Each shop is profiled with brief historical information, a charming illustration, and a one-of-a-kind anecdote, providing a cheery, inside look into the world of buying, selling, and cherishing books.

From beloved''New Yorker''cartoonist Bob Eckstein, ''Footnotes from the World s Greatest Bookstores''invites you into the heart and soul of every community: the local bookshop, each with its own quirks, charms, and legendary stories.
This collection of seventy-five of the most cherished bookstores from around the world features evocative paintings by Eckstein paired with colorful anecdotes about each shop, featuring a roster of great thinkers and artists of our time, includingDavid Bowie, Tom Wolfe, Joe Frank, Tracey Chevalier, Jonathan Lethem, Michael Palin, Roz Chast, Deepak Chopra, Bob Odenkirk, Robin Williams, Patricia Marx, Philip Glass, Paul McCartney, Dave Berry, Michael Jackson, Jonathan Ames, Terry Gross, Mark Maron, Neil Gaiman, Ann Patchett, Jo Nesbo, Diane Keaton, Chris Ware, Molly Crabapple, Amitav Ghosh, Patti Smith, Mo Willems, Alice Munro, Dave Eggers, Roxanna Robinson, Garrison Keillorand many more.
Page by page, Eckstein perfectly captures our lifelong love affair with books, bookstores, and book-sellers that is at once heartfelt, bittersweet, and cheerfully confessional.''