Stout has owned his eponymous bookstore, specializing in architecture, art, urban planning and several fields of design, for 48 years and imbued the space with his own aesthetic," Datebook noted.Įames was founded in spring 2022 by Llisa Demetrios, the Eameses' granddaughter, with a mission to promote interest in architecture, design and the Eames legacy. Plans call for the bookstore to remain in the 1850s-era building that "hasn't changed much since William Stout created the initial design of the space in the 1980s. The new nonprofit, named for Mid-Century Modern industrial designers Charles and Ray Eames, has retained the store's four employees.
The Eames Institute in Petaluma purchased the business in October in a deal that included specialty imprint William Stout Publishers and the store's inventory of more than 70,000 titles.
No matter the situation in which her characters find themselves-an unforeseen love affair between adolescent cousins, a lifetime of memories unearthed by an elderly couple’s decision to shoplift, the deathbed secret of a young girl’s forbidden forest tryst with the tsar, the danger that befalls a wealthy couple’s child in a European inn of misfits-Edith Pearlman conveys their experience with wit and aplomb, with relentless but clear-eyed optimism, and with a supple prose that reminds us, sentence by sentence, page by page, of the gifts our greatest verbal innovators can bestow.īinocular Vision reveals a true American original, a master of the story, showing us, with her classic sensibility and lasting artistry, the cruelties, the longings, and the rituals that connect human beings across space and time.William Stout Architectural Books in San Francisco, Calif., has been acquired by the Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity, "which has pledged to keep what longtime customers love about the store intact," Datebook reported. These charged locales, and the lives of the endlessly varied characters within them, are evoked with a tenderness and incisiveness found in only our most observant seers. Spanning four decades and three prize-winning collections, these twenty-one vintage selected stories and thirteen scintillating new ones take us around the world, from Jerusalem to Central America, from tsarist Russia to London during the Blitz, from central Europe to Manhattan, and from the Maine coast to Godolphin, Massachusetts, a fictional suburb of Boston. In this sumptuous offering, one of our premier storytellers provides a feast for fiction aficionados. National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction, winner
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