One of my old friends from highschool just had an article in Vanity Fair about her new bookshop!

[cemaphonic]

She's opening an antiquarian/collector bookshop focusing on women authors. Being across the country, (and now that she's in London, the world), I haven't seen her in years, but we keep in occasional touch on Facebook. She also has a book about trains coming out next year. So proud of my awesome, cool friend!

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/10/second-shelf-an-devers-interview

A.N. Devers will never forget what happened at one of her first antiquarian book fairs, in 2015. She had pulled two novels from a shelf, one by Joan Didion, the other by Cormac McCarthy. And then she noticed the price tags of each: Didion’s was priced at $25, while McCarthy’s went for $600.

“I just looked around the room,” Devers said recently over a cappuccino at London Review Bookshop in the heart of Bloomsbury, “and thought, it can’t simply be scarcity. It’s who’s collecting what and who’s selling what. And as I knew from publishing, men don’t read books by women as much as they read books by men.” The frustrating logic goes from there: “If they’re the ones [who] are mostly buying and collecting rare books, then there’s not a market for women writers.”

[PoliticAverse]

1. Best wishes to her! n/t