memories of tower books pt. 3

i would get lost in the stacks or in the periodicals for tower had the most exhaustive selection of periodicals this side of heaven i went to school there you name it no matter how obscure you could find it at tower once i saw william t vollman at tower on broaday i recognized him immediately he had this kind of swagger as he paid for his purchases a certain streetwise bookish cool that is hard to describe but easy to see in person but then there was so much to see at tower that i soon lost sight of vollman and i disappeared in the back of the store to lose myself in the newest photography and art books