About - Cairns

Joe’s office, aka the Water Closet, aka Bachelard’s Cabinet, aka the Weeping Room. Smells of espresso, newspaper, and bagels. Physically cramped, intellectually palatial. Guarded by a white stag. Speak, Friend, and Enter.

Cairns is a bookseller’s journal—an ode, a vow, and a shop manual. I hope it brings you courage on the Way.

This project formed around the Reader in Residence at Perelandra Bookshop, the first artist residency dedicated to reading as a creative act. You can learn more about the program and our community in The Colorado Sun.

Subscribers help me keep the lights on, physically and metaphysically. I am grateful for your support.

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A portrait of the bookseller as a young prayer

People

Joe Deany-Braun

@deanybraun

Curator of Perelandra Bookshop. Author of Young Santa. Lover of winter.

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