Books, Bookstores, Garbage

In the vast sorting machinery that is New York City, The Strand's dollar rack is one of the exhaust vents, a place where excess information is discarded.

Manhattan — The Strand dollar racks on the corner of Broadway and 12th Street is simply one of my favorite places in the world. In the sorting machinery of New York City, the dollar rack is one of the exhaust vents, a place where excess information is discarded. I sort through the racks often. Much of what ends up there is a sort of anonymous garbage, books that came and went with no notice from the world at...