NP New York bookseller obit & other news

[Doug Millison]

This may be of some interest to New York P-listers, from PW Daily for 
Booksellers (January 3, 2001):

Art Bookseller Seymour Hacker Dies

Seymour Hacker, owner of Hacker Art Books on W. 57th St. in New York City
for more than 50 years, died December 19. He was 83.

A renowned bookseller, Hacker learned the trade on Fourth Avenue, the
onetime bookselling center, then opened the Abbey Bookshop, a general
store. After joining Albert Saifer to run a book auction house and working
in the Merchant Marine, he opened Hacker Art Books in 1946. He had an art
gallery and has published many titles, under the Hacker Art Books imprint,
mainly reprints of out-of-print books.

He is survived by his wife, Linda, who has worked at Hacker Art Books for
years.

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This same issue of PW Daily for Booksellers notes that On the Road by 
Jack Kerouac, performed by Matt Dillon (Caedmon) has been nominated 
for a Grammy award in the Best Spoken Word Album category.

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Some of you may be interested to know that, also according to this 
issue of PW Daily for Booksellers, on February 15 "Eduardo Galeano 
talks about his new work, Upside Down (Metropolitan, $24.95) as an 
exorcism of the corporate demons that obstruct human behavior and 
reason" on a radio program called "Bookworm on Santa Monica, Calif.'s 
NPR station, KCRW 89.9 broadcasts author interviews at 2:30 p.m. each 
Thursday. They are also archived on the Web and can be downloaded for 
listening via Real Audio or Windows Media player at 
http://www.kcrw.org. "

I recently read an article excerpted from _Upside Down_  and now plan 
to acquire and read Galeano's book.  If you have an affinity for the 
sort of critique that Noam Chomsky offers, you might like Galeano, 
too.

In this same venue, on February 1  "Gore Vidal reflects upon our 
national destiny and discusses the "dirty tricks" of a more refined 
era, The Golden Age (Doubleday, $27.50)."
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