Over at the excellent Jacket Copy blog, Carolyn Kellogg writes about how London’s bookshops are shutting early because of fears over the rioting.
Carolyn – look at the pictures of the people doing the looting and burning. Do they look like the sort of people who would smash the windows of a Waterstone’s and run off with armfuls of Dostoevsky and Shakespeare?
“Oi geezers, there’s a massive pile of Joyce and Fitzgerald in this one. Oh, and some Flann O’Brien too. Wicked! That’s my bedtime reading for a couple of months sorted! There’s a specialist poetry bookshop over in Lewisham – let’s do ‘em next.”
Benjamin Wooley put up a status on facebook saying that several businesses had been hit in Clapham Junction but not Waterstones!