“A bibliophile since childhood who bought the revered Gotham Book Mart in Midtown Manhattan from its idiosyncratic founder, Frances Steloff, and kept it alive as a frowzy literary shrine for four more decades”: from the New York Times obituary.
I’m pretty sure I saw Andreas Brown on one of my trips to the Gotham. He might have been the guy showing me the rare Ted Berrigan stuff — I just don’t know. I know that I saw Frances Steloff at least once, sitting in an alcove back near the tables of little magazines.
Saturday, March 14, 2020
Andreas Brown (1933–2020)
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I heard this news the other day, but a bit cryptically, on the Facebook feed of the Edward Gorey House. There was no confirmation anywhere so I didn't mention it to anyone elsre. Glad to see the Times has taken notice.
I'm not sure if I ever saw Brown in the Gotham; he was probably there and I didn't know who he was. I definitely saw Frances Steloff puttering around (this would have been in the 1970s), and I saw Gorey once or twice. I miss that store.
It was truly, to borrow the title of the novel I’m reading, a world of wonders.
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