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Uh, no thanks. I already have a book. - What? 6/4/2008 1:24:31 PM
Once Michael Seidenberg had a string of bookstores in New York City. Now, he has a secret one where he sells books by appointment only. But before these businesses, he sold books on the street.
In a recent New Yorker article, Seidenberg recounts a particularly sad sales experience.
"Once, a couple stopped,” he recalled. “And the man asked his girlfriend, ‘Do you want a book?’ She said, ‘No, I already have a book.’”
I had a similar experience once while browsing through books at an antique store in Jeffereson, Texas, where, to my surprise, I found a copy of Tom Sawyer by Samuel Clemens, printed before the author took on the pen name of Mark Twain.
I watched two twenty-something girls run their hands over the spines of other old books.
to keep up with CORPORELLA, a serialized version of my screenplay. (Have I mentioned I've won awards for screenwriting?)
If you haven't been there, here's what you've missed:
In the first episode of CORPORELLA, we were introduced to the LoMaybelKay Cosmetics company and employee Ella Ripley, a cracker-jack communications employee working behind the scenes at the company's annual sales force meeting.
The next installment features the classic wicked stepmother, HELEN WHEELS (read: hell on wheels) and the two ambitious corporate step-workers as they emerge to make Ella's life miserable after the death of her uncle, LoMayBelKay's CEO.
Think Sigourney Weaver bossing around Renee Zellwegger, while Carson Kressley (the Queer Eye guy) and Anne Hathaway plot to make Ella their copy monkey.
And today...meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Or, is he? You'll have to stop by to meet VINCE LARMING.
