A Factotum in the Book Trade

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Contemporary resonance: in an era of growing anti-Amazon sentiment and the widespread effects of COVID-19 on bookshop employees, Factotum takes up the unsung anthem of the bookseller. While there are quite a few memoirs of the book trade, Kociejowski's is told not from the perspective of those who run the trade but from its ticklish underbelly-the factotum 'as watcher, spook, chronicler of the mundane.' This book originated as an essay in The Pebble Chance (2014). Publisher Dan Wells requested it be turned into a full book, and it joins our growing list of bookish books: Kociejowski's previous work (poetry, essays, travel writing) has garnered rave reviews in Washington Post, TLS, the Globe and Mail, Library Journal, and elsewhere.