I get to know a lot of people after it's too late to meet them. Their books tell me who they were. Go into a stranger's house and look at their books, and you'll come as close as possible to reading their mind. The other day, I got to meet Warren through the books his widow brought me. She came with her daughter and … [Read more...]

A sad occurrence yesterday at Printed Page Bookshop provides a cautionary tale for all of us. A young woman came in and showed me a photo of a vintage poetry book she'd seen in the store a few days earlier. "Do you still have this?" she asked me. Sadly, we had sold the book over the weekend. People, when you are in a … [Read more...]

I met another dead man today. This one was an accomplished attorney in a high-powered Denver law firm. He taught himself German, Chinese, French and Spanish. He decompressed from his high-stress work by painting military miniatures -- thousands of them. His wife would sit next to him while he painted the soldiers … [Read more...]