What’s been the biggest surprise about running a bookstore? Then there’s some favorite back-list favorites we love to recommend like Jean Rhys, Jorge Luis Borges, Georges Perec, Kathy Acker… the list could go on and on. Some recent favorites are Tell Me How It Ends by Valeria Luiselli, She Would Be King by Wayetu Moore, Circe by Madeline Miller, and There There by Tommy Orange. Whether it’s a prescient political read, thrilling page-turner, or an under-the-radar classic, we’re always game for a recommendation. It’s impossible to pick just one-but our staff always loves connecting good books with eager readers. (We once tried to get him on our payroll, but he immediately ate his W-2. He enjoys hugs, compliments, and dumpster diving.
Tyler the Golden Retriever is a staff favorite and the unofficial mascot of the Scholar, and he’s been our talent used in multiple social media campaigns to increase our reach to dog-friendly customers. However, we’re dog friendly and have many canine regulars that frequent the store. We don’t have any bookstore pets (though there’s a staff mutiny brewing if we don’t get a cat soon). We’re the place for that kind of fun discovery that you didn’t think you’d come across, but turns out you need.ĭo you have bookstore pets or animal regulars? If so, can you please provide pictures and describe their personalities? While we selectively curate contemporary new releases and stock the must-have classics, we have a profusion of scholarly texts on wide-ranging subjects to satisfy the most ardent reader out there. That brings out an eclectic group of customers-academics, students, and anyone looking to deepen their knowledge on any given topic. Historically, we’ve been one of, if not the largest second-hand academic used bookstores in the country. What would you say is your bookstore’s specialty? Pictured, left to right: owners Mayor Eric Papenfuse and Catherine Lawrence, Sir Salman Rushdie, and bookstore manager Alex Brubaker. We never know what we’ll come across, but it’s always weird and delightful. If pressed, we’d have to go with the art floor-we have thousands of books devoted to art history spanning continents, genres, and movements. What’s your favorite section of the store? Our stacks of books, floor-to-ceiling bookshelves and rolling ladders, romantic alcoves, and book-lined passageways are also known in the region as a go-to place for engagement and other special photo-shoots! Happily, the couples were pleased to coordinate their decorations, so the strings of decorative lights hung throughout the store could serve both wedding parties! A surprising number of couples want to get engaged or married in the bookstore, in our poet’s corner or the rare books room. We once hosted two weddings, back-to-back, on a single New Year’s Eve. What’s the craziest situation you’ve ever had to deal with in the store?
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Maybe we’ll just have to create our own local history reprint series to satisfy readers! Donehoo’s Harrisburg: The City Beautiful Romantic and Historic (1927). Morgan’s Annals of Harrisburg (1906), Marian Inglewood’s Then and Now in Harrisburg (1925), and George P. Our customers would love to have modern reprints of a classic older works like George H. There are many out-of-print works of regional interest that are so popular we can’t keep secondhand copies in stock. What’s the book you want to bring back into print? Your most-requested out of print book?Ī perennial customer favorite, John O’Hara’s A Rage to Live, the 1949 scandalous tale of Pennsylvania’s social elite, set in Harrisburg and inspired by O’Hara’s visits here, had recent Library of American and Vintage Classic editions but is again out of print. Questions answered by bookstore manager, Alex Brubaker. Located near the State Capitol building in Harrisburg, PA, the bookstore is owned by the Mayor of Harrisburg (Eric Papenfuse) and his wife, Catherine Lawrence. Midtown Scholar Bookstore is 15,000 square feet of space with over 200,000 used and new books.
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