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Minding the store : a big story about a small business
Title:
Minding the store : a big story about a small business
Summary:
"In this charming graphic memoir, the founder of an iconic housewares shop recounts the ups and downs—and ups again—of starting a family business, starting a family, and staying true to one’s path while trying to make it in the Big City. Whether it’s a set of vintage plates from a 1920s steamship, a mug with a New Yorker cartoon on it, a tin of sprinkles designed by Amy Sedaris, or a juice glass from a Jazz Age hotel, Fishs Eddy products are distinctly recognizable. A New York institution, Fishs Eddy also remains a family business whose owners endured the same challenges as many family businesses—and lived to write about it in this tale filled with humorous characterizations of opinionated relatives, nosy neighbors, quirky employees, and above all the eccentric foibles of the founders themselves. Readers come to know author Julie Gaines and her husband, with whom she founded the store, and because this is a family business, the illustrations are all in the family, too: their son Ben Lenovitz’s drawings bring Fishs Eddy to life with a witty style a la Roz Chast and Ben Katchor. Over the years the store has collaborated with artists and celebrities such as Charley Harper and Todd Oldham, Alan Cumming, and many others to produce original designs that are now found in thousands of stores throughout the country, and Fishs Eddy has garnered a huge amount of media coverage. A great gift for anyone who has ever dreamed of opening a little business—or anyone with any kind of dream—Minding the Store offers wisdom, inspiration, and an exceedingly entertaining story."-- Provided by publisher.
Edition:
First edition.
Contents:
Road to Fishs Eddy -- For rent -- Doing dishes -- Customer service in the early years -- Family business -- Roll call -- Road scholars -- Destined for Broadway -- In the black -- Half-baked -- Lost leaders -- Bully in a china shop -- Dishing it out.
Physical Description:
163 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
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Author(s):
Publisher:
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill,
Publication Date:
2018
ISBN:
9781616206628
Publication Information:
Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2018.

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Call Number:
741.5 GAINES
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