Book Nook - 498 S Garrison Street
Students buy their textbooks at the University Bookstore - 143 W College Street but go to the Book Nook to read for pleasure. This tiny, cramped shop specializes in cheaply bound fiction toward the low end of the literary spectrum.
The Book Nook is owned and run by Paul Fushille, genial New Jerusalem native. Unlike most New Jerusalem bookstores, the Nook buys used books. So, even though the Book Nook does not order textbooks, its used-books section usually has copies of last semester’s major texts, making it popular among thrifty students. Stranger titles also show up on the used book shelves. Currently, Justin Geoffrey’s People of the Monolith can be found here, for instance.
The store has an extensive collection of weird fiction, including Robert Blake’s The Stairs in the Crypt, The Feaster from the Stars, and The Burrower Beneath, Gordon’s The Dark Demon, and Gargoyle, and a fabulously rare copy of Black God of Madness by Halpin Chalmers. All of these are inscribed “S. Whidden” on the end papers. There are also a large sections of used magazines, including several dozen back issues of Weird Tales. These writings, while thrilling, are little more than hackneyed fan fiction.
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