The Paris Review calls it The Secret Bookstore. Videographer Andrew David Watson calls it ILLEGAL BOOKSTORE? YES! in a post with large wonderful photos of Michael Seidenberg's Upper East Side Manhattan apartment-turned-bookstore after the rent for a commercial space became prohibitive.

Watson talks on Etsy about how he came to shoot this furtive bolthole for used books: There's No Place Like Here: Brazenhead Books.

My favorite quote from Seidenberg on the video: ""I find ways to survive without it making enough money to be what you would call a successful business. If it's all about money, there's just better things to sell."

Photo by Andrew David Watson