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Cat Radio Cafe
Mon, Dec 27, 2021 12:00 AM
UN-OPPRESSIVE NON-IMPERIALIST BARGAIN BOOKS
UN-OPPRESSIVE NON-IMPERIALIST BARGAIN BOOKS, JIM DROUGAS, Prop.
On tonight’s show we’ll be joined by Jim Drougas, beloved Greenwich Village legend and proprietor of Unoppressive Non-Imperialist Bargain Books at 34 Carmine Street, recently glorified in Beatriz Browne’s film of the same name as that address, to discuss the past and future of the unoppressive non-Imperialist bargain bookstore genre, and the particular magic of this one.
Jim Drougas was born in a small hospital in Brooklyn, a few hundred feet from where Bernie Sanders grew up. He attended PS 98 in Sheepshead Bay, and some unnamed high schools, one in Islip. He was living on East 13 Street and Avenue A for several years before dropping out of college to pursue a career in books. His first book store was in Manhattan Beach. Paul Krassner helped him give it a name: The Unknown Obscure Little Book Shop. Krassner had asked him to describe it, and then said, “Just call it that.”
In the late ‘70’s, he created the New Morning Book Shop for High Times magazine. Thereafter, he did large wholesale export of books by the truckload. He started Unoppressive Non-Imperialist Bargain Books in 1991, thirty years ago.
