[From The Booksellers (dir. D.W. Young, 2019). Click for a larger view.]
That’s as close as I’ll ever get to the Gotham Book Mart sign (by John Held Jr.), now in the Gotham Book Mart Collection at Penn Libraries.
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Friday, May 1, 2026
“Wise Men Fish Here”
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I see that the bookstore was a gathering place for many groups. My favourite independent bookstore, Owl's Nest Books, hosts out-of-hours groups: the mid room (not the walls) book stacks on wheels so that the stacks can be wheeled out of the way and cushioned folding chairs set up.
The store used to be twice as big, but they had to release half, that was on the other side of a permanent wall, to keep from going out of business.
The meetings of the James Joyce Society took place upstairs. They had exhibitions up there too — we once went to one of Edward Gorey’s work.
It’s great when a bookstore can serve as the so-called third place for people to gather.
I still kick myself about the things I could have bought off their front counter back in the 1970s and '80s if I'd just a few more bucks and a few more brains. All those self-published Edward Gorey items...
I can identify.
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