Take My Books, Please!

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 31, 2010
What to do with books you won’t re-read? Alina Tugend, regular contributor and writer of the Short Cuts column for The New York Times wrote an essay (Times Select) with some suggestions. She’s joined first by Tom Wayne, co-owner of Prospero's Bookstore in Kansas City, and Fred Bass, president and co-owner of The Strand Bookstore, then by photographer Marc Joseph whose book New and Used (Steidl Publishers, 2006) explores the aesthetic of used bookstores.

New and Used is available for purchase at Amazon.com. Click here to see some of the images from the book.

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