Faulkner House Books

Faulkner House Books is a New Orleans icon located in the premises where William Faulkner wrote his first book Soldier's Pay. It's an excellent bookshop and a place that must be supported lest it falls into the same fate as Gotham Book Mart (see my previous post on Shakespeare & Co.) Each independent bookshop has its own heritage, its own character. To lose any of them is a travesty.

Inside, the bookshop has private quarters in the back (guarded by a poodle), walls lined with autographed pictures of some pretty gob-smacking writers and a great selection. The lady manning the bookshop was lovely--just don't, like two mid-Western ladies in t-shirts and shorts, come in asking for the facilities. This ain't no Borders, y'all!

Robert Frost! 

 A autographed picture of Harper Lee!!!!

Richard Ford! 

Pan! Pan! Tennessee Williams! Amazing! 

Papa, can you hear me?

 A handwritten note from George Bernard Shaw?! Incredible!