![]() ![]() ![]() Whenever it’s been hard to obtain copies of highly requested books, the proprietors’ thoughts have gone toward taking on a publishing role.Ĭonrad is friends with Abigail Thomas, whose work has been produced by such big houses as Houghton Mifflin and Scribner. Guidebooks and accounts of local history are also perennial sellers. ![]() Customers buy from one to five copies a week of Small Town Talk, a book about the Woodstock music scene of the 1950s and 60s. The Golden Notebook’s owners, Jackie Kellachan and James Conrad, started discussing the idea of stepping into the publishing world several years ago, when they were concerned that some of their bestsellers might go out of print. Publication is scheduled for January of 2023. Publishers Group West has signed on to handle promotion and distribution of the book to stores nationally and internationally. The first volume by Golden Notebook Press will be Still Life at 80: The Next Interesting Thing, a new memoir by acclaimed local author Abigail Thomas. More recently, McNally Jackson Books in Manhattan has published several literary novels, and now the Golden Notebook of Woodstock is joining the ranks of bookstore-publishers. In the 1950s, poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s City Lights Bookstore branched out into publishing ground-breaking books such as Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and Other Poems. Jacqueline Kellachan, James Conrad anf Abigail Thomas. ![]()
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