July 13, 2009
By Robert Kaplow
NEW JERSEY MONTLY
"I have this urge, a compulsion really, to turn the basic idea of a bookstore on its ear,” says Alex Dawson, co-owner and manager of the Raconteur, a used bookshop in Metuchen. The Raconteur not only sells new and used books and organizes screenings of film classics, it also runs a motorcycle club for book-loving bikers. Every summer and fall, the club sets out on a series of motorcycle treks to “sites of literary or cinematic interest.” Previous excursions explored William Carlos Williams’s Paterson, and Blairstown, where Friday the 13th was shot.
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