Stranger than nonfiction?

Couldn’t resist the urge to reblog this:

Woman: Do you have a non-fiction section?
Book guy: Well, everything that’s not fiction is non-fiction. [Over] there’s cooking, and there’s history.
Woman: No, that’s not what I asked. Do you have a section for non-fiction?
Book guy: Well, there are no non-fiction novels. Everything here that’s not a novel is non-fiction.
Woman: But you don’t have a non-fiction section?
Book guy: No. Everything that isn’t fiction is non-fiction.

–Barnes & Noble, Staten Island 

From the site Overheard in New York

– Post by Harry Wollstonecraft Shelley

One thought on “Stranger than nonfiction?

  1. This happened to me numerous times at the Borders where I worked. It’s true.

    Gina Eliot

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