by Jas Faulkner To experience a William Joyce book is the enter a place where things tend to fall together in a fashion that is both charmingly out of step with modern sensibilities and yet imbued with enough emotional currency that his words and images resonate with the most hard-bitten contemporary reader. His answer to our frantic digital age is found in the elegant mechanics of a clockwork world that requires the intervention of a human hand in order to keep working in its own orderly/disorderly fashion. It has been proven time and time again that there is a type of writer who is informed as much by his or her physical location as they are by the emotional and intellectual landscape in which they
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El Ateneo bookstore is one of the most breathtaking buildings in all of South America; the fact that it is now a huge bookstore is just a bonus. The long, sweeping balconies and the arching ceilings give it a wide-open feel that cannot be found in any other bookstore. The intricate decorations that adorn the walls and the impressive lighting — done well enough that people can read small print anywhere in the massive main room — give it a feel of class and comfort all at once. Many people ask the same question as soon as they walk through the front doors: How did a place like this become a bookstore? The truth is that El Ateneo started out not as a bookstore but