New York's 50 Best Bookstores for Book Lovers

by Eve Claxton, John F. Baker (Foreword), Tristana Maccio (Illustrator)

Book lovers will cherish this guide to the best specialty and general book shops in New York. The lively and informative selections convey the character of the store, sometimes a bit of history, occasional interviews with owners, and bibiophiles, and the essential facts. Eve Claxton, British bibliophile, finds New York is still a great bookstore town.

Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

I was born in London and moved to New York in 1995. After working as a freelance magazine writer — for Vogue U.S. and U.K., The Tatler, The Guardian and Time Out New York — I embarked on a career in nonfiction books. Since then, I've co-written or ghost-written seven books for major publishers on a range of subjects with an emphasis on memoirs, forgotten histories and women's lives. I regularly craft book proposals for authors.

My career in radio has involved producing pieces for the StoryCorps broadcast on NPR and for the organization's major funders (including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation). My radio work has also been featured on BBC Radio 4. I give talks and lead workshops on storytelling and I contribute articles about the arts and fashion to Porter magazine.

In everything I do, I love to collaborate and to help people to tell their stories and tell them well.