Book-Destiny

A remembrance of bookselling past, in the form of two twenty-year-old introductions to a pair of one-hundred-year-old novels.

James Mustich
Nov 5 · 8 min read

1: Parnassus on Wheels

You may not remember it by the time you read this, but for generations before the rise of behemoth bookstore chains, before the current, internet-bewitched interest in…

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James Mustich

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Now: Author, 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die (Workman Publishing). Then: publisher and chief bookseller, A Common Reader. https://www.1000bookstoread.com/

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