First some announcements. We have a winner in the poetry contest. I will be contacting them directly and if they like, the winning line will be shared with everyone here.
Second announcement: More like a thank you than an announcement. I would like to thank Steve May of Plan B Press for taking the time to share some of the poets published by his firm. I highly recommend the work of Plan B and if you are in the northeast then you should look up when one of their readings is taking place. Plan B poets are known for being good readers as much as they are good writers.
Finally the matter at hand: This is the first of what I hope will be a long standing tradition on the Devil's Accountant. Every month of May I will have a independent bookstore take control of the DA and over the course of the month's posts explain their story and bookselling philosophy.
It is only natural that for this first installment that I would reach to my former business partner, Jason Hafer and the bookstore he and I co-founded, Wolfgang Books.
I left Wolfgang Books in January of this year for a myriad of reasons. One of them was not that I did not feel the work was important. Like small press publications, independent bookstores (perhaps even more so) are the true stewards of the literary world. The New York Review of Books and other major publications may make themselves out to be the Atlas of the literary realms but I would ask them to walk, just for one month, in the shoes of a bookseller. A true bookseller. The kind of bookseller you'll find at Wolfgang Books.
All this month there will be links to Wolfgang Books and opportunities to support this award winning bookstore. I implore you to take the time and effort to make a order, whether via the phone or from Wolfgang's eBay or ABE listings. I know some of you are familiar with Wolfgang's and I welcome you to join in the discussion.
So, starting tomorrow I will leave you in the capable hands of Jason Hafer, bookseller.
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