A professional bookseller buys and sells properties, much like a publisher or the procuress in Vermeer’s great painting below. It is work, money exchanges hands, people are rewarded by buying and selling. It takes knowledge, judgment, skill, time, caring, and an ability to manage money. Some do it for a short time, some long. Sometimes it adds up to something riveting, as this month at UPB:
Note the heads in this image of the audience listening to the man half-hidden on the right on November 29, 2011 during a UPB Conversation with Brandi Catanese on her book The Problem of the Color(blind): Racial Transgression and the Politics of Black Performance published by Michigan. William McClung