It's not just over here that bookstores are going under. The legendary Paris Brentanos is set to close, a victime of rising rents. (Thanks, EG)
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In his recent TEV guest review of Home Land, Jim Ruland called Sam Lipsyte the "funniest writer of his generation," and we're quite inclined to agree. We tore through Home Land in two joyful sittings and can't remember the last time we've laughed so hard. Lipsyte's constellation of oddly sympathetic losers is rendered with a sparkling, inspired prose style that's sent us off in search of all his prior work. In Lewis Miner's (a.k.a Teabag) woeful epistolary dispatches to his high school alumni newsletter ("I did not pan out."), we find an anti-hero for the age. Highly, highly recommended.
One thing I find fascinating is that so many commercial real estate owners are *raising* rents during this horrible recession, and driving their buildings into what I would think would be a highly non-lucrative vacancy. The owner of the building where I work now is doing the same thing to the company I work for.
Seems economic suicide to me, but then commercial landlords were never the smartest people.
Posted by: Niall | July 02, 2009 at 10:15 AM
Oh it's more their terrible business practices than the economy or the landlords. A friend of mine's partner worked there until it folded (and for about 10 yrs beforehand) and apparently the woman who ran it was a real nut job...
Posted by: lauren | July 02, 2009 at 08:08 PM
Thanks a lot! You are the best
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