Whenever I visit a store, I play the "biography section makes strange bedfellows" game. Seen side-by-side: The Prince of Wales and Sylvia Plath. Woodrow Wilson and Oscar Wilde. Phyllis Diller and Annie Dillard. John Adams and Douglas Adams.
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.......the first bookstore I worked in, had the book about Gig Young's murder/suicide "Final Gig"
next to "Final Exit".....nice.
Posted by: paul | March 29, 2006 at 02:53 PM
It is fun to look at.I have Ellen Degeneres next to James Dickey,Lyndon Johnson aside Nora Joyce, and Zelda Fitzgerald adjacent to Pretty Boy Floyd in my store.
Posted by: DanD. | March 29, 2006 at 08:00 PM