Tattered Cover

Tattered Cover

Good. Bumped corner, slightly sunned spine, minor foxing.

I hope the new owners make a go of it.

Joyce Meskis is one of the good ones:

"When I was a kid, I read, read, read, read, read my way through the library," she said. "I was there for story hour. I used to bring home armloads of books, literally. It was escape. It was pleasure, information. It was wandering the world in my mind. It was incredible. I still look at it that way. So I wanted to teach that. I woke up one morning, stared at the ceiling and said, `You idiot, don't you know you've been doing what you love all these years? Why don't you just get on with it?'"

http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2001/10/22/story5.html?
http://www.npr.org/2015/09/09/437473687/denvers-tattered-cover-bookstore-is-focused-on-succession-not-just-survival

Comments

  1. John BumpSeptember 9, 2015 at 9:43 AM

    I'm hoping that with somewhat younger owners it can regain some of its past glory.  My impression is that the shrinking it's experienced in the last couple of years were more the current owners giving up than actual business contraction.

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  2. Pat KightSeptember 9, 2015 at 10:15 AM

    Heard the story on my drive into work this morning. I have fond memories of getting lost in the Tattered Cover on a visit to Denver many years ago - glad to see it's still thriving!

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  3. John BumpSeptember 9, 2015 at 10:19 AM

    'Thriving' is a bit ambitious: nobody's going to get lost in either of the locations, because they're so very small compared to what it once was.  Sure, they can't run a brick-and-mortar bookstore that takes up four stories of an entire city block anymore, but the downtown location in particular is just pocket-sized these days.  Still, I'm glad they're in business.

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  4. Drew McCarthySeptember 9, 2015 at 11:09 AM

    I've seen more book and record stores close, or downsize, than I can count.
    I hope they don't all go away, but their heyday has come and gone.

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  5. Geo. TirebiterSeptember 9, 2015 at 11:09 AM

    print is dead.

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