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Recollections about the pantheon of writers and painters who exceeded through her store and how I became a bookman The proprietor of today's "The Bookstore" in Lenox, Massachusetts, the author reflects on working in early stages at the famous Gotham Booklet Mart on West 47th Streets in New York City. He creates, "I am very fortunate to acquire found Frances Steloff, founder of the Gotham Booklet Mart, while i was an extremely son, and she switched me in to the bookman that I have since become.... [T]o talk about Frances Steloff's Gotham Booklet Mart is to remember the whole twentieth century in belles-lettres." Tannenbaum provides anecdotes and vignettes of Steloff, as well as some of the countless literary figures he achieved after serving in the US Navy through the Vietnam conflict, including Tennessee Williams, Galway Kinnell, Anne Sexton, Archibald MacLeish, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and J. D. Salinger ("a man I almost tripped over one morning"). Steloff exposed the Gotham in 1920, starting "a literary salon in the middle of New York City in the most wonderful time of its background." Among those there: Martha Graham, Christopher Morely, Mencken and Dreiser, and Anaïs Nin. Steloff experienced her "fights with the censors, the court docket dates, enough time she was actually caught and only an 11th hour phone call to Bennett Cerf of Random House kept her out of prison." This lovely memoir is enriched by the author's wonderment, drinking it all in with such memories as the weekend he "walked around Manhattan... putting on e.e. cummings' fedora."
