Michael Harvey, longtime proprietor of Kugelman and Bent Used and Rare Books, captures the essence of the Denver book world and literary underground in this short story sequence. Part fact and part fiction, the stories convey the texture of life among bookscouts and beat poets in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s.

A constant stream of books bought and sold accompanies interactions between people whose singular traits and conversations fill the stories. James Joyce, Penguin Shakespeare, a signed Treasury of Harry Golden. Ivan the Taxman, who buys two pricy hardcovers; Tennessee Ernie, who trades weed for sci fi paperbacks. Van Dyke Brown, who lived in the red sandstone Victorian on 12th and York and "walked the city, a gentleman stroller of streets like Baudelaire, a detached observer, a flaneur in flannel shirts and corduroy pants with suspenders, while long-dead ghouls fought over his lost soul."

Hilarious, gritty, surreal and true, this book is an absorbing portrayal and a stylistic achievement to be savored and shared with friends.

Note: adult content. Not for children.

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