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Destination: Books

“for the adventurous”

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Our rotating inventory depends largely on the anticipated interests of venue attendees.

For example, since 2021 Destination: Books has been a regular attendee of the Freedom Farmer’s Market at the Carter Center in Atlanta featuring books on organic gardening & sustainability, food culture, travel, and book culture. We’ve also partnered with the Wylde Center, the Atlanta-based environmental education and outreach organization. 

Our popups allow readers to conveniently examine books not usually found at conventional bookstores. We have built relationships with a host of various publishers to provide books that we are proud to sell. Also, we have a point-of-sale system that allows us to process credit card sales on site.

The Journeyman – Decatur

Although Destination: Books does not have a brick and mortar store it does have an outlet at the Journeyman in downtown Decatur, Georgia. We have about 50 books there which fits with the store’s vibe. The Journeyman is bicycle shop and community space offering places to hang out and coffee. Check out the latest inventory video:

Online Store

Sales of new books are fulfilled though through Bookshop.org  at bookshop.org/shop/destinationbooks.

Destination: Books also sells eclectic second-hand books through Alibris.com. Here’s a few of the peculiar titles worth searching for: 

• Juliet, Naked and Songbook by Nick Hornby.
• I went to see Hornby at the Highland Ballroom in Atlanta while he was on tour promoting the paperback version of Juliet, Naked,  I waited in to get these books signed and give him a copy of my own book about books The Book Shopper: A Life in Review since Hornby has a book column in Believer magazine. He was gracious and signed everything, but I was disappointed that the never wrote about The Book Shopper (sigh). The Songbook copy is the original hard copy book and has the accompanying CD with 11 of the songs that Hornby writes about.  Songbook is listed for $50 on my destination.alibrisstore.com. If you buy it, I will include Juliet, Naked for free with the same shipment (valued at $15). Just inquire at murray.browne905 (AT) gmail.com.
• Marshal McLuhan on the Nature of Media: Essays, 1952-1978 edited by Richard Cavell
• This is a book for the McLuhan junkie, but some of his observations are still relevant:  “There is not possible protection from technology except by technology” or “The small child does more data processing — more work than any child in any previous culture in the history of the world.” Just $14 plus S & H. To order go directly here.
• The Weekly Weeder by Ryan Gainey and Illustrated by The Count Beauregard DuBois 
• A collectible copy of Ryan Gainey’s spiral bound illustrated 18-page poster-like book The Weekly Weeder. What makes the book a collectible is that it was signed by Gainey himself.  It is gorgeously illustrated in full color by The Count Beauregard DuBois. The Story Behind It (or its provenance)On Easter Sunday, 2015, my partner Denise and I toured Gainey’s home gardens on Emerson Avenue in Decatur. We were walking by his home and Gainey was in his backyard with his dogs and invited us to leisurely tour his gardens, which was well worth it.  When he finished our stroll, he pitched The Weekly Weeder to us, we thought “Why not?” because it was the most amazing private garden we had ever seen or seen since. He was very pleased at our purchase and chatted at length while he signed the book in gorgeous script. It is in very good condition, but the edges have slight shelf wear. $110 plus S & H. Available only by contacting murray.browne905 AT gmail directly.
• Down & Outbound: A Mass Transit Satire by Murray Browne
• The video says it all. $11 plus S & H. But volume discounts are available at book’s homepage at downandoutbound.com. Look for the Down and Outbound Store link. Only 100 copies left! (sigh)

• The Book Shopper: A Life in Review by Murray Browne. The Destination Books owner and author of The Book Shopper are one and the same. You can still purchase a new copy of The Book Shopper (it’s out of print) and if you want a signed copy reach out to me on email at murray.browne905 (AT) gmail.com. The prices are about the same at each $12 (plus S & H).

My Alibris Store is where I offer vintage copies of The Believer Magazine

Note that sometimes my Alibris store goes off-line when I am out of town and unable to fulfill orders. Next scheduled temporary shutdowns are October 26 to November 1, 2025 and November 15 to November 20, 2025.

Welcome! You are probably here because of this classified ad that ran in the The Believer beginning on March 27, 2024. You are at the right place.  Part of the Destination: Books‘ mission is to give quality, quirky books and magazines such as The Believer, a good home. 

There are two ways to purchase past The Believer issues:

 

For an individual issue you can purchase them at the Destination: Books Alibris Store. Each issue is priced between $5 & $10 and shipping and handling is an additional $4 to $5.  Only single issues are sold this way. The screen grab artwork demonstrates the best way to search the Alibris site for a specific magazine.  Enter “Believer, Issue #” in Alibris search bar. 

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You can pay for multiple issues via Paypal or Venmo. Contact me murray.browne AT gmail.com, list which issues you want and I will send you an invoice. Shipping for the first five issues is $5 ; between 6 and 10 issues is $10 and anything over 10 issues is $15.

 

Small print: Offer is good for addresses in Continental United States and packages are sent via USPS Media Mail.  Georgia residents must add 8% sales tax. The magazines are in good shape with only a couple exceptions which are mentioned in the individual listings. No refunds, but if the customer is not satisfied then I’ll issue a comparable trade out from the Destination: Books Catalog. 

Available Past Issues

2003 – 2005

Issue 6,  September, 2003 – Conversation with Chip Kidd, Political stories on Donald Rumsfeld and Howard Dean. This is a thick issue. The first year.

Issue #23, April 2005 – Ray Bradbury book recommendations, articles about Hunter S. Thompson and Carlos Casteneda.

Issue #27, September 2005  – Interview with Sarah Silverman, and Devo lead singer Mark Mothersbaugh, Self-help Venn Diagrams.

 

2008

Issue #53, May 2008- Interviews with David Cross, Richard Price and Julie Hecht and an advice from Mindy Kaling. Great article about how can we warn future generations about buried nuclear waste. (The waste is radioactive longer than any language.)  Outdated price sticker on the front.

Issue #55, July/August 2008 – The Music (CD is missing, sad face).  Haruki Murakami on Thelonious Monk. An interview with Irma Thomas, the Soul Queen of New Orleans. Outdated price sticker on the front.

Issue #56 September 2008 – A book about a series of paintings about the cartoon Nancy. Advice from Bob Odenkirk.  Interview with Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion). Outdated price sticker on the front.

 

2009 & 2010

Issue #61, March/April 2009 – The Film Issue (includes DVD of Godard short films), and it has a conversational interview with Sam Mendes and Heidi Julavits (some minor highlighting) and another interview with John Sayles.*

Issue # 63, June 2009 – Jonathan Lethem on Nathaniel West, Judd Apatow is the guest columnist for an advice column.

Issue #66, October 2009 – Music columns from Greil Marcus, Jack Pendarvis’ monthly column and an advice column from Louis C.K.

Issue #72, June 2010 – Music column from Greil Marcus, Jack Pendarvis’ monthly column and an advice column from Rose McGowan.

Issue #73, July/August 2010 – The Music Issue. I includes the CD which was mixed in Wonderland in Atlanta and was recently tested.  There are some markings on several pages (sorry). Articles: “I Wish I Knew How it Would to be Free” (The Secret Diary of Nina Simone).*

Issue #75, October 2010 – A conversation with Barry Hannah. A conversation with Director David Fincher.

2011

Issue #77, January 2011 – Music column from Greil Marcus, Jack Pendarvis’ monthly column and an interview with Michael Ondaatje.

Issue #78, February 2011 – “The Dead Chipmunk: An Interrogation into the Mechanisms of Jokes” by Chris Bachelder.

Issue #80, May 2011 – “Red Eden: When We All Move to Mars, Will We Be Happier” by Nathanial Rich.

Issue #81, June 2011 – Interviews with comic journalist Joe Sacco and photographer Lena Herzog. “In the Atomic City” by Millicent G. Dillon.

Issue #83, September – Interview with Jason Schwartzman, Conversation between Don DeLillo and Bret Easton Ellis, “Orthodox Chic” (Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish Women) by Meaghan Winter. SOLD

Issue #84, October 2011 – Jonathan Lethem essay on Postmodernism, Interview with Steve Carrell.

2012

Issue #86, January 2012 – Interview of Laurie Anderson, An essay about erasure literature, challenging the ideas of authorship, originality and influence by Jeannie Avanasco.

Issue #87, February 2012 – Sherman Alexie in conversation with Neko Case. “Atomic Bread Baking at Home” by Aaron Borrow-Strain.

Issue #90, June 2012 – Interview with Sophie Calle, “Schema: The Harley-Davidson in American Culture”

Issue #92, September 2012 – Interview with food critic Jonathan Gold, “Eddie is Gone: The Life and Death of Surf Legend Eddie Aikau.

2013

Issue #96, February 2013 – An examination of the movies that fed the fantasia of the Third Reich, An interview with Jeffrey Eugenides.*

Issue #97, March/April 2013 – Margo Jefferson on James Baldwin, An interview with radio artist Joe Frank.

Issue #99, June 2013 – Alan Moore interviewed by Peter Bebergal, An interview with Joyce Carol Oates.

Issue #100, July/August 2013 – The Music Issue.

Issue #101, September 2013 – Interviews with Edward Albee and Margaret Cho.

Issue #102, October 2013 – A look at the political, personal, and familial reasons for Dave Chapelle’s return home to Yellow Springs, Ohio.

2014 & 2015

Issue #104, January 2014 – Judy Blume in conversation with Lena Dunham, “Remote Control: Tonya Harding, Nancy Kerrigan, and the Spectacles of Female Power and Pain” by Sarah Marshall.

Issue #105, February 2014 – “Everything is Going to Be Ok: What a 1994 Branding Fiasco Can Teach Us About Counterculture and Commerce” by Michael Schulman.

Issue #107, May 2014 – A conversation with Chuck Palahnink, “Mr. Nhem’s Genocide Camera” (Cambodia’s Museum of Atrocity).

Issue #112, Summer 2015 – A conversation with Lev Grossman and Charles Yu. An interview with Robert Coover.

There were no issues published between the Fall of 2015 and August/September 2017.

* Issues that contain media such as DVDs or CDs are $10.