ABOUT
Welcome to BOOKSMART TULSA!
If you’re reading this, chances are you are a book person. And if you are a book person, you are gladly resisting the future. In this era of high-tech gadgets and non-stop media, being a book person is getting to be the intellectual equivalent of Civil War reenacting. They aren’t cheap, eco-friendly, or easy to store. We hold onto these things for years, moving them time and again, complaining every time, yet they remain, sometimes long after us, passed down like fine silver and antiquities. Some are shelved with an obsessive precision, others are mixed up in some chaotic fashion that only makes sense to their owner. More than an album of photographs, we can look at these odd little objects and see our life, not in the way it actually happened, but the way we choose to remember it. The faces we invented from a few short descriptive sentences. The friends we made that are never more than a bookshelf away.
At BOOKSMART TULSA, we know how important books are. So do you. Our goal is to make sure it stays that way.
Jeff Martin is an author and editor. His book The Customer is Always Wrong: The Retail Chronicles was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and featured on NPR’s All Things Considered and other national media outlets. He has written for NPR.org, GOOD, Powells.com, and many other publications. He is a columnist for Tulsa People magazine and was the “Book Guy” on the local PBS program Tulsa Times for over three years. His newest book, My Dog Ate My Nobel Prize: The Fabricated Memoirs of Jeff Martin, was released in fall 2009. http://www.jefffmartinauthor.com
Mary Beth Babcock is the owner of Dwelling Spaces, located in Tulsa’s historic Blue Dome District. She is the mastermind behind the ever-popular Okie Grown line of products and has cultivated a following for all things local. The winner of multiple awards and citations, Mary Beth is a prominent leader in Tulsa’s burgeoning Downtown development. http://dwellingspaces.net
Jeff is on the left, Mary Beth is on the right. Just in case you’re wondering.
