The Booksellers (2019)

What once seemed like an esoteric world now seems essential to our culture the community of rare book dealers and collectors who in their love of the delicacy and tactility of books are helping to keep the printed word alive DW Youngs elegant and entertaining documentary executive produced by Parker Posey is a lively tour of New Yorks book world past and present from the Park Avenue Armorys annual Antiquarian Book Fair where original editions can fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Strand and Argosy book stores still standing against all odds to the beautifully crammed apartments of collectors and buyers The film features a litany of special guests including Fran Lebowitz Susan Orlean Gay Talese and a community of dedicated book dealers who strongly believe in the wonder of the object and the everlasting importance of whats inside