Authors 'Round the South

Via the Montgomery Advertiser

Seven years ago, in this space, we published a column devoted mostly to suggested books for Father's Day gifts.

Of the books mentioned in that column, we sold only one, and it was not the one we'd expected to sell. In fact, we'd included it mostly as a joke, thinking nobody would really want to buy a book of photographs of chickens, but somebody did. And that's how we became one of the few stores in the country to sell a copy of "The Fairest Fowl: Portraits of Championship Chickens."

That's the last time we'd thought about that sale until the other day, when it became a part of an uneventful day at the store, a day when nothing at all happened. Almost nobody came into the store, and we sold almost nothing. We thought you might want to hear about such a day in the book business. . .read more