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Movies about Writing
Stranger than Fiction (2006), Will Ferrell, Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Queen Latifah. IRS auditor Harold Crick realizes he’s a character in Karen Eiffel’s latest novel when he hears her narrating his life in his head. He enlists the help of a literature professor to figure out his story before the author kills him.
My review: Four stars. Harold Crick is an adorable character, and I enjoyed the cinematography. The way the plot covers the anguish of writing and the construction of literature while making a statement on how people live their mundane lives kept me engaged and thinking.
Lehigh Valley (Pa.) Bookstores
Alphabetical by city.
The End: A Bookstore, Allentown, Pa.
Moravian Book Shop, Bethlehem, Pa.
Medina Books and Coffee, Coopersburg, Pa.
Book and Puppet Company, Easton, Pa.*
Lafayette College Store, Easton, Pa.*
The Quadrant, Easton, Pa.
(one asterisk means has at least one of our books on the premises.)
Other Pennsylvania Bookstores
Firefly Bookstore, Kutztown, Pa. [Review here.]
Bookstores in Connecticut
Alice’s Haunted Little Bookshop, Mystic, Conn.
Bank Square Books, Stonington, Conn.
Grey Matters (South), New Haven, Conn.
Possible Futures, New Haven, Conn.
Bookstores on the Way to Georgia
In September 2024, I presented a workshop on preserving your fantasies as erotic fiction at Sex Down South Atlanta and I drove there. To break up the journey, I visited a variety of independent bookstores from a list I compiled:
Black Swan Books, Richmond, Va.
Shelf Life Books, Richmond, Va.
Fountain Books, Richmond, Va.
Regulator Books, Durham, N.C.
Golden Fig Books, Durham, N.C.
Letters, Durham, N.C.
Books Do Furnish a Room, Durham, N.C.
Purple Crow Books, Hillsborough, N.C.
Persnickety Books, Burlington, N.C.
Hub City Bookshop & Press, Spartanburg, N.C.
Tangled Web Comics & Books, Spartanburg, N.C.
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Bookstores in Georgia
Wall of Books, Commerce, Watkinsville & Athens
The Book Nook, Lilburn
Phoenix & Dragon, outer ring of Atlanta (more of a witchy, new age shop but lots of books and tarot cards)
Bookstores in Massachusetts
Andover Bookstore, Andover*
Eight Cousins Bookstore, Falmouth*
Lala Books, Lowell*
Tutnuck Bookseller, Westborough Shopping Center, Westborough*
Bookstores in New Hampshire
Gibson's Bookstore, Concord, N.H.*
Bookery, Manchester, N.H.*
Book detours
MUSEUM OF PRINTING:
The Museum of Printing in Haverhill, Mass., has a compact yet comprehensive collection of all things printing from the first printing presses to four-color process to digital production, they have it all. Only open Saturdays, often has workshops and yard sales.
YALE:
When traveling home from Massachusetts, we discovered the Yale University in New Haven, Conn., had a Gutenburg Bible in their Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscript Library.
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