My Brilliant Careerism, part XII: The O'Briens at Three Lives Bookstore

I was glad, and grateful, to see the new Anchor paperback edition of my second novel, The O'Briens, front and center at the magnificent, amazing, and inspiring  Three Lives & Company bookstore in Greenwich Village. I did my first public NYC reading at Three Lives when my first novel, The Law of Dreams, came out in 2006.
     The O'Briens made the Paperback Row listing of new and notable p'backs in last Sunday's New York Times.

One of the greatest bookstores on the face of the Earth. Every single person who works there is incredibly knowledgeable and well read and full of soul. You can walk in and ask anybody, really, what they've read lately and they'll tell you something - very likely something you've never heard of. [But] it's always going to be something interesting and fabulous. I go there when I'm feeling depressed and discouraged, and I always feel rejuvenated.

- Michael Cunningham,
winner of the 1999
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction