pootriarch quoted Reading the Room by Paul Yamazaki
When I walk into Three Lives in New York, or other stores in San Francisco like Green Arcade or Green Apple, or on the rare chance I get to go to Seminary Co-op in Chicago, my eye gravitates to two things: one, the thing that I'm not familiar with and, two, something I may be very familiar with but now see in a new context. It's all about developing a conversation between the books.
— Reading the Room by Paul Yamazaki (Page 1 - 2)
In which the City Lights bookseller name-checks my beloved Green Arcade, which survived lockdown only to close soon after.