Here’s a short bio of Mr. Tom Nealon.
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My brother and I opened Pazzo (we tell people it’s because Yossarian’s Roman prostitute in Catch-22 would chase him around the brothel calling him Pazzo – crazy in Italian – but mostly we just liked the name)Books in the slightly more wooded area of Boston in 2003. We’d grown up in New York, but I traveled out to New Mexico to go to grad school in literature (for a time, I left graduate school after finishing my classes but not my dissertation) and then later moved to Miami. There I observed what a world without books might look like – it was fairly terrifying but the beach sure was nice.
Moved to Boston when my wife went back to school and started the store soon thereafter. I was never one to enjoy working for others, book selling allowed me to at least feign using my education, and my brother and I have always loved books, so it seemed natural. It’s a struggle, at times, but you meet interesting people, make your own rules, and get to look at books and say you’re working so who can complain?
..more of Tom’s writing can be read on the Pazzo blog.
a full list of tom’s contributions to this blog can be found here..
It would be hard to survive in the book market against Amazon. . . Good luck to you. I miss the local book stores.