tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post7957776561643334623..comments2024-03-27T06:25:29.002-05:00Comments on Anecdotal Evidence: 'A Medley, Farrago, Gallimaufry'Patrick Kurphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08436175583386298032noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-40051666750232943632020-07-08T01:47:26.661-05:002020-07-08T01:47:26.661-05:00Speaking of bookstores, I was pleased to discover ...Speaking of bookstores, I was pleased to discover that the Book Loft, founded in 1970 and located in Solvang, California, is still purring along nicely, celebrating its 50th birthday this year. <br /><br />From there, last weekend, I picked up Harold Bloom's "Possessed By Memory: The Inward Light of Criticism" (2019; his last book, I think), "The Fellowship: The Lives of the Inklings" by Philip and Carol Zaleski (2015), a Library of America volume (1984) containing 1,400 pages of Henry James's literary criticism - and, best of all, the 6 hardback volumes of the 1904 reprint of George Birkbeck Hill's 1887 edition of Boswell's life of Johnson.<br /><br />A living and breathing bookshop, still at it after 50 years. Such a pleasure.Richard Zuelchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00734593620854179011noreply@blogger.com