My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316395072 ISBN 13: 9780316395076

Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2017

Synopsis

In My Bookstore our favorite writers-from Elin Hilderbrand, to John Grisham, to Dave Eggers-express their adoration and admiration for their favorite bookstores and booksellers. The relationship between a writer and her local bookstore can last for years or even decades. Often it is the author's local store that supported her during the early days of her career and that works tirelessly to introduce her work to new readers. But authors are also readers and customers, just like us. For them, as for most of us, bookstores serve as the anchor for our communities, the place that introduces us to new ideas (and new neighbors), and that sets our children on the path to becoming lifelong readers and lovers of books. Brimming with original, deeply moving, funny, and exceedingly well-crafted tributes to bookstores, from Longfellow Books in Portland, Maine (Ron Currie, Jr.) to Powells City of Books in Portland, Oregon (Chuck Palahniuk) and everywhere in between, My Bookstore is a joyful celebration of our bricks-and-mortar stores and a clarion call to readers everywhere at a time when the value and importance of these stores should be shouted from the rooftops.

About this title

About the Author:

Ronald Rice has worked in book publishing as a sales and marketing professional for 25 years, working with and promoting bookstores. He was a four-time nominee for Publishers Weekly Sales Representative of the Year and has served multiyear terms on both the NEIBA and SEBA advisory councils. He lives in Philadelphia, PA.Richard Russo is the author of 10 books. In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls. He lives in Camden ME and Boston, MA.Emily St. John Mandel is the author of four books including, most recently, Station Eleven, which was a finalist for the National Book Award for fiction. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.Leif Parsons is an award-winning illustrator who's work has been published in The New York Times and Harper's. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

From Booklist:

One could do worse than to plan a road trip based solely on the bookstores featured in this unabashed paean to what may be a vanishing part of the American landscape, the independent bookstore. “May” because the art of bookselling seems to be experiencing a Darwinian resurgence. If it is, then it is thanks to the valued works and even more valuable support of a host of writers who recognized that bookstores are more than places to sell their wares. Bookstores can be the soul of a neighborhood, the heart of a city. There are places with resident cats (like Brooklyn’s Community Bookstore) and places without (Birmingham’s Alabama Booksmith). Places where three-year-olds can cajole the owner into opening early, and others where fledgling writers find solace and inspiration. Publishing professional Rice invited 84 outstanding writers to contribute to this essay collection. And the fact that Richard Russo and Tom Robbins, Francine Prose and Ann Patchett, Wendell Berry and Rick Bragg take such a sincerely humble and exuberantly proprietary interest in their local bookstores speaks, well, volumes. --Carol Haggas

About this edition

• Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0316395072
• ISBN 13: 9780316395076
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432
• Editor: Rice Ronald
• Illustrator: Parsons Leif