Comments on: thank you for your support

By: nico

nico — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:59:03 +0000

Hey Eric, thanks for the good words! Yep, they curate a mean little show in that tiny space. I love that both N+P and Adobe have tiny but mighty gallery spaces.
As for Japantown, I try to put blinders on when I’m walking past the magazines at Kinokuniya Bookstore: literally hours of glossy reading pleasure.

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:42:07 +0000

I love Needles & Pens. Do they still have the little gallery space in the back?
There’s an amazing magazine selection at the Japanese bookstore in that mall @ Japantown’s tourist hub/square also, great mags on unique interior design and LOHAS.
How wonderful that two of may favorite spots to visit in SF–N+P & AAM–intersected in this blog post. My last visit was on the opening day of Lords of the Samurai and I nearly bankrupted myself in the bookstore. As usual~!

By: Nancy

Nancy — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:41:53 +0000

I just checked and the European Book Store on Larkin is still in business. The area can be a bit…challenging but what the heck! Nothing ventured…
http://www.europeanbook.com/
But I still missl Harold’s on Geary – every foreign magazine known to human kind plus books. Now, THAT was a magazine store.

By: nico

nico — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:24:12 +0000

I should mention that Green Apple has a very decent magazine selection, and Needles & Pens, too, for smaller/odder zines.
And, as an addendum, I’d hoped to be able to go to yesterday’s talk at the Commonwealth Club on the future of books, but didn’t make it. Curious if any of our readers took part?

By: Nancy

Nancy — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:16:11 +0000

I think that you have a superb book store where I’ve spent many an hour (and many a dollar)! The museum also produces excellent catalogues which is why I always try to mention them in my reviews. The disappearing small/ independent bookstore is frightening. When I visited my mother in Santa Maria, the only stores were the big box chains; there was nothing individual or unique about them. My only complaint about the redo of the old library is that the architect didn’t give you enough room for a larger store!
The situation regarding magazine stores is a particular sore point with me. I’ve lived in SF for unpteen million years and remember when we had two foreign magazine stores on Geary, another newstand in a local cafe specializing in French magazines and a couple of great places in Berkeley. I think they are all closed now, another sign of changing times and tastes. I’m not one to wax nostalgic about all things of the past but in some ways, we used to have better access to global culture just by taking the bus downtown.