Category: Tales from A&R

The week after getting my book store position I turned up bright and early on Saturday morning, ready to start a job that was cultured, intelligent, and didn’t involve cleaning. “Here you go,” said Catherine, handing me a damp cloth and a spray bottle. “You can get started on the windows.” I think my face…

Let me tell you a story about my life in books. I spent seven years at a bookstore located in Perth, Western Australia, some of which were fun, some of which were awful, and most of which were a wonderful kind of low-key weird. This all happened in the late 90s/early 2000s, and at the…