“A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read”*…
FT writers nominate awe-inspiring places to get your literary fix, from Mumbai to Buenos Aires…
And so many more: “The most brilliant bookshops in the world.”
* Terry Pratchett
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As we browse, we might recall that it was on this date in 1938 that the Mercury Theater broadcast the Halloween episode of their weekly series on the WABC Radio Network, Orson Welle’s adaptation of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds. The first two-thirds of the show (which was uninterrupted by ads) was composed of simulated news bulletins… which suggested to many listeners that a real Martian invasion was underway. (While headlines like the one below suggest that there was widespread panic, research reveals that the fright was more subdued. Still there was an out-cry against the “phoney-news” format… and Welles was launched into the notoriety that would characterize his career ever after.)
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