- Slog Tipper Brad
The University Book Store is doing something really adorable and awesome for Pride right now, the kind of thing that can only happen at an independent bookstore with old-school, book-loving—and book-hoarding—readers on staff. (Note: I worked there for years before I came here, so blah-blah conflict of interest.)
Two longtime bookstore staff members who have large, beautiful book collections at home decided to purge their own personal collections this week to make a Big Gay Book Sale table out in the lobby, comprising hundreds of books. There are signed copies and first editions and things long out of print, all sorts of GLBT fiction and nonfiction, dust jackets protected in crisp mylar sleeves, curated by obsessive book collectors who have lived with the books for years and are now releasing them to the public—all for $3.99 a pop.
The store’s used book buyer, Brad, who posted about the sale on his blog over here, calls it “the results of two queens’ housekeeping” and “more Gay than could normally be confined in so small a space.” It’s the kind of hastily but lovingly assembled pile of awesome that couldn’t result from months of profit-motivated planning in a corporate office 2,000 miles away from the salesfloor. If you’re in the neighborhood, you should stop by and check it out. Everyone I know who’s done so has walked away with something great.