“Secondhand Bookshops Have Been Banished From The City”

by Zoë Pollock

Michael Seidenberg’s apartment on the Upper East Side doubles as Brazenhead Books, a hidden bookstore. But Seidenberg likes it that way:

If it’s all about money, there’s just better things to sell.

In Patti Smith's memoir Just Kids, she supports Robert Mapplethorppe and herself by finding first editions and hocking them for cash. I imagine that lifestyle doesn't quite exist anymore in New York. But it's awesome that Jonathan Lethem worked at Brazenhead.