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Deatherage
cutting
a plastic
coil he
threaded
into a
journal.
Photo by
Jonathan
Williams
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and can also be ordered
online at www.bookjour-
nals.com.
Deatherage spoke to
Coast Weekend about
growing up reading in Ban-
don, the diffi culties of fi nd-
ing beautiful books and
why he chose this space.
Jonathan Williams:
Where did you get the idea
to start making journals?
Jacob Deatherage: I
had seen somebody doing
something similar with
records and I was a book
dealer and book artist at the
time in Seattle. I was sort
of the book scout. They
don’t really exist – I guess
they still sort of exist today
but it was before the Inter-
net was the main place to
sell books and so I’d go
to garage sales and thrift
stores and fi nd used books
and then sell them again
to used book stores. So I
had access to a lot of good
looking books that didn’t
have any value but I just
kept buying them because
they were cheap and
because I thought they were
pretty. So I found a way of
sort of making them into
journals.
JW: Do you have to
purchase the books even
though they are recycled?
JD: You do. It doesn’t
look like it, but these books
are really specifi c types of
books. One, they’re hard-
cover. And then two they’re
good looking. And if you
go to any sort of library
and you look at a shelf of
books, and you examine the
hardcovers, you’ll look and
you’ll see that one from
every 200 is actually inter-
esting. So I have to look at
hundreds and hundreds of
books. They’re very, very
tightly curated.
JW: What attracted you
to this space?
JD: Well look at it. For
one thing, it’s delightful.
For another, it’s small. It’s
like a lot of these spaces
in downtown Astoria are
1,500 or 2,000 sq ft and I
don’t need that much space.
It has beautiful windows,
beautiful light.
JW: What attracted to
making journals and what
do you enjoy most about it?
JD: Well, they sold. Pov-
erty, actually, had a big
role in it. Because I could
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Deatherage and his corgi, Crumpton, in his shop in Astoria.
actually make 100 of them
and take them out to an art
walk or to a Sunday Mar-
ket or something. I like the
process. I like it when it
clicks with somebody and
they interact with the col-
lection. It’s really fun to
see people fi nd something
that gives them a little bit
of joy, you know? What I
like are people. I really like
to hear people’s stories and
fi nd out what they’re about.
So I think of the books as
a way sort of getting some
insight and that personal
kind of relationship with
people even briefl y is the
thing that I enjoy the most.
I like making a product that
I respect as well.
JW: What do you want
Astorians to know about
your business?
JD: I make a gift prod-
uct that’s a wonderful and
dynamic sort of gift product
that people can choose to
come in and look through.
If you’re going back home
and need some gifts for
people or summer events
or weddings or just for a
teacher or graduation gifts
or whatever – it’s a good,
inexpensive hand-made
one-of-a-kind thing. CW