Under the Table Books (2009)
Haven to a goodly gang of social outcastes, visionaries, and
highly original artists, Under the Table Books is both
community center and grand experiment in pragmatic mysticism.
The cast includes poets, musicians, master chefs, a ten-year-old genius,
a former movie star, eighty-eight-year-old identical twins, and a homeless savant who may have once been the richest man on earth.
“If Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Lewis Carrol created
a bookstore together, the place might very well resemble
Under The Table Books. Todd Walton takes you on a
whimsical, lovingly detailed tour of a universe that is
equal parts bookstore and state of mind; a literary counter
cultural version of the StarWars bar, peopled with one-of-a-kind
characters lucky enough to have found each other.”
— Merrill Markoe, author of Walking In Circles Before Lying Down
“Embellished with the author's beguiling drawings, these stories add up to one great big story that knocked me out.” — Bruce Anderson, The Anderson Valley Advertiser
“A splendid novel of great and magical stories.”
— Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, author of The Hidden Life of Dogs
You may purchase this handsome casebound edition here for 15 dollars, signed or unsigned, or from online bookstores and good bookstores everywhere.
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Be sure and listen to Todd reading “The News”, which is a part of both the audio CD I Remember You, and the novel Under the Table Books.