"Steal This Book" not on the List

[rich]

for a long time many bookstores downtown NYC would not keep DeLillo's
novels on the shelf but behind the counter

doubt that's the case anymore

rich

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 2:32 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=520472
>
>  There's an underground economy of boosted books. These values are
>  commonly understood and roundly agreed upon through word of mouth, and
>  the values always seem to be true. Once, a scruffy, large man
>  approached me, holding a folded-up piece of paper. "Do you have any
>  Buck?" He paused and looked at the piece of paper. "Any books by
>  Buckorsick?" I suspected that he meant Bukowski, but I played dumb,
>  and asked to see the piece of paper he was holding. It was written in
>  crisp handwriting that clearly didn't belong to him, and it read:
>
>  1. Charles Bukowski
>
>  2. Jim Thompson
>
>  3. Philip K. Dick
>
>  4. William S. Burroughs
>
>  5. Any Graphic Novel
>
>  This is pretty much the authoritative top five, the New York Times
>  best-seller list of stolen books.
>