The Italian Wedding Fake Book

[David Casseres]

Kenneth Houghton sez

>     For the distance you probably traveled, even those scared of the 59th 
>     Parallel can beat that without trying...

[I previously said]
>     Well, pretty soon I'll be finding out.  Saturday was my first chance 
>     to go get my copy; I headed on down to Printer's Ink, the nearest 
>     independent bookstore (eat your hearts out, New Yorkers, I had *five* 
>     others to choose from if necessary). 

I traveled less than a mile from my house to Printer's Ink; the farthest 
I might have traveled, to A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books in 
Cupertino, would have been 10 miles from home but only a couple miles 
from work.  If New York can do better than that, it's good news; I was 
thinking of posts by people from New York who said they had no "local 
indie" because B&N (or Borders, or whoever) had driven tham all out.

We had a big hoo-ha around here when Borders moved in, but so far the 
local indies have stood up mighty well, even while Borders always seems 
to have a lot of people in it.


Cheers,
David