New York Times Bestseller

Foreword by Garrison Keillor
(Clarkson Potter, October 2016)

The local bookshop is the heart and soul of a community—each one unique, each one filled with local characters, legendary stories, surprising quirks, and comfortable charm—as readers, we cherish them as sanctuaries for learning and dreaming.

In Footnotes from the World’s Greatest Bookstores, beloved New Yorker cartoonist Bob Eckstein has gathered the greatest untold stories from a seventy-five of the world’s most renowned bookstores (both past and present) and paired them with evocative color illustrations of each shop. Here is a portrait of our lifelong love affair with bookstores that is at once heartfelt, bittersweet, and filled with good cheer.

Bob Eckstein has been a humor writer for more than twenty years, and is most recognized for his popular weekly columns in Newsday, the Village Voice, and now, TimeOut. His cartoons and artwork have also appeared in publications like The New Yorker, the New York Times, Spy magazine, and Details. He is also the author of The History of the Snowman. He splits his time between his studios in Manhattan and Pennsylvania.