This post begins in 1999, in Raleigh, North Carolina. At Quail Ridge Books, where I had recently started working after quitting a job at Borders in nearby Cary because it was “too corporate” and cramping my mid-twenties style. I was already obsessed with Dalkey Archive thanks to a few amazing readers at the previous bookstore I worked at (shout out to Schuler Books & Music in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and to Curt Witteveen, Tom Benaway, and Rich Gabe for being as instructive in terms of great literature as any professor I studied with in college), but the brand new Dalkey venture,
CONTEXT, Shklovsky, an Interlude
CONTEXT, Shklovsky, an Interlude
CONTEXT, Shklovsky, an Interlude
This post begins in 1999, in Raleigh, North Carolina. At Quail Ridge Books, where I had recently started working after quitting a job at Borders in nearby Cary because it was “too corporate” and cramping my mid-twenties style. I was already obsessed with Dalkey Archive thanks to a few amazing readers at the previous bookstore I worked at (shout out to Schuler Books & Music in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and to Curt Witteveen, Tom Benaway, and Rich Gabe for being as instructive in terms of great literature as any professor I studied with in college), but the brand new Dalkey venture,