HTBU has been described as "smart" (Chicago Tribune), "engaging" (The Washington Post), "helpful" (New York magazine), "frequently hilarious" (The Guardian), "pretty terrific" (January magazine), "sharp [and] witty [and] brimming with advice" (Minneapolis Star Tribune), "odd" (The Montreal Gazette), "fortuitous" (Utne Reader), and "clever and, as the title promises, useful" (Newsweek).
Posted: August 24th, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: from the $1 shelf, inscriptions, recycling, used books | No Comments »
Because it’s been a while, here’s the latest from the $1 shelf. Not the book jacket this time, but the inscription on the first page. (Click to enlarge)
This is why I prefer used books that have been marked up by previous owners. I’m not a fiction writer, and can’t make this stuff up, so I rely on lucky finds.
Posted: April 16th, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: book jackets | Tags: from the $1 shelf | 3 Comments »
During two or three spells of self-doubt this last year, I’ve wondered whether How to Be Useful was really a good choice for the title. Should I have aimed higher? Then today’s pilgrimage to the Strand Bookstore $1 shelf brought me this (click to enlarge):
How to Buy Food. I’m weirdly impressed.
Posted: January 31st, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: book jackets | Tags: from the $1 shelf | No Comments »
Click on The Art of Japanese Management. See that price sticker? $3.50 at Leo’s Book & Wine Shop. (I got if for $1 at Argosy meself.) If anyone reading this has any information on Leo’s Book & Wine Shop, or happens to have shopped there (sometime during the Reagan administration, from the looks of it), please get in touch. I want to hear about it.
