THE INTERNATIONAL PULPWOOD QUEEN AND TIMBER GUY BOOK CLUB
Birth of a Bookstore Cat by Judith Teitelman
A truly successful bookstore is one with a cat. Having a cat means the booksellers care about the place and the people who walk through their doors. That’s why Skylight Books is a success and a chain bookstore is just a business. - Kerry Slattery, Skylight’s founding General Manager / co-owner Writers and cats go hand-in-hand. They are practically synonymous. The same is true of bookstores and cats, most especially independents that are, so fortunately, on the rise again. These are typically the bookstores with personality, perspective, verve, and—a cat. My relationship with independent bookstores runs deep. Just three months after graduating from UCLA with a degree in Art History, I was hired by Ace Gallery to open and manage Art and Architecture Books of the Twentieth Century, at the time Los Angeles’ second bookstore devoted exclusively to the arts. Although I had worked in a chain bookstore for a few years while in school, this 96 OCTOBER 2021
