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Rochester Book & Paper Fair coming Sept. 6
Times change! Things change! The venerable Rochester Antiquarian Book Fair, 50+ years old, has a new name: The Rochester Book & Paper Fair, a name that takes into account the ways reading, collecting, buying, appreciating books and all kinds of paper have changed. We are now in the business of denying that we are in a fusty business and eager to attract a wider audience.
We will have dealers in general used books that are real bargains, new books which are coming alive in Rochester again, genuine antiquarians with rare, scholarly and unusual literary material, and all kinds of other paper: posters, photographs, postcards, broadsides, prints. Rochester is, after all, Image City, as well as home to an assortment of important colleges and universities. My bookshop on East Ave. is now 27 years old and relies heavily on students and faculty of many intellectual disciplines.
Two New Collections
It’s been a very long time since I have contributed any deathless prose to my bookselling website!
For the moment, this is a needed reminder, I think, that Greenwood Books has celebrated its 25th Anniversary – remarkably – and remains alive and well, although always uncertain in this era about the role and meaning of physical books to the modern audience. I continue to believe.