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I learned some years ago, that lots of city bookstores, keep certain titles behind the cash registers. These are the titles that are regularly stolen by angry young men-poets presumably. I first discovered this in the late 90’s, when Martin Amis and Chuck Pahlaniuk were the stolen writers of the day.

The picture above is from McNally Robinson, on Prince Street in Soho. I found it interesting. The edgy writers, worth stealing for, now include Paul Auster, David Sedaris, Don DeLillo, PKD, Hunter Thompson . . . and Paul Coelho! (People are stealing The Alchemist.)

There’s also some Kerouac in there. And the people behind the counter were unclear of whether the Schulz biography was being stolen or just waiting to be shelved. I would love to see more of these shelves.

Enlarged picture here.