Yes off topic but far more interesting than chat Gpt, lawyers nad all that gumph…….
Lit Hub writes..
Tom Verlaine was the Strand’s Best Customer
Booksellers Remember the Coolest Celebrity “Cart Shark” of Them All
Every bookstore has regulars, but no bookstore has such a wide and eccentric cast of recurring characters as New York’s Strand. To work there, as I did for one memorable year, is to know them: the sellers, the hagglers, the unyielding optimists checking in at the information desk for the esoteric titles they requested over a decade ago. The guy who checks out five minutes before closing every week with 70 paperbacks, or the ambiguously arty-looking person who comes in at the end of each month to sell old monographs to make rent. But no regular was as consistent or beloved as the punk-rock legend Tom Verlaine, the patron saint of the dollar carts, who died after a short illness on January 28.
Verlaine was best known as the guitarist and vocalist of the band Television, whose short run in the ‘70s influenced generations of acts from Joy Division to the Strokes. Following his death, critics have praised the way his sensitive guitar work shaped the punk scene and music at large. His friend, collaborator, and one-time lover Patti Smith wrote a remembrance for The New Yorker.
In addition to his musical legacy, though, Verlaine was a fixture in a small corner of the New York book world. Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore pointed to it in a tweet:
Read the full article – best thing we have read all week