[Prestidigitweeze]

Last weekend, I visited Revolution Books in Manhattan, as well as the Strand and St. Marks Books. I'd love to pretend it was all due to my desire to purchase yet more tomes, but my apartment is currently so cluttered that I'll have to sell and gift many that I own already.

Also stepped into Three Lives briefly, but only because it's on my way home and I happened to see a book by a friend in the window.

And then there's the street. Ran into friend of a friend Viv -- whoops, "Anonymous" -- selling his first novel, Diary of an Oxygen Thief, and promised to buy the Kindle version to support him (which I now have). Have to ask him next time I see him whether it's truly a fictional memoir or not. In any case, it's rather amazing he managed to get blurbs from Junot Diaz and New York Magazine without doing any publicity at all. I'm expecting the book to be good.