num_pages: 378
description: In this enthusiastic heartfelt and sometimes humorous ode to bookshops and booksellers 84 known authors pay tribute to the brick-and-mortar stores they love and often call their second homes. In My Bookstore our greatest authors write about the pleasure guidance and support that their favorite bookstores and booksellers have given them over the years. The relationship between a writer and his or her local store and staff can last for years or even decades. Often it's the author's local store that supported him during the early days of his career that continues to introduce and hand-sell her work to new readers and that serves as the anchor for the community in which he lives and works.My Bookstore collects the essays stories odes and words of gratitude and praise for stores across the country in 84 pieces written by our most beloved authors. It's a joyful industry-wide 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.Perfectly charming line drawings by Leif Parsons illustrate each storefront and other distinguishing features of the shops.Contributing authors and bookstores include: Fannie Flagg--Page &amp; Palette Fairhope ALRick Bragg--Alabama Booksmith Homewood ALJohn Grisham--That Bookstore in Blytheville Blytheville ARRon Carlson--Changing Hands Bookstore Tempe AZAnn Packer--Capitola Book Cafe Capitola CAIsabel Allende--Book Passage Corte Madera CAMahbod Seraji--Kepler's Books Menlo Park CALisa See--Vroman's Bookstore Pasadena CAMeg Waite Clayton--Books Inc. San Francisco CADaniel Handler and Lisa Brown--The Booksmith San Francisco CADave Eggers--Green Apple Books San Francisco CAPico Iyer--Chaucer's Books Santa Barbara CALaurie R. King--Bookshop Santa Cruz CAScott Lasser--Explore Booksellers Aspen COStephen White--Tattered Cover Book Store Denver COKate Niles--Maria's Bookshop Durango COAnn Haywood Leal--Bank Square Books Mystic CTFlorence and Wendell Minor--The Hickory Stick Bookshop Washington Depot CTRick Atkinson--Politics and Prose Bookstore Washington DCLes Standiford--Books &amp; Books Coral Gables FLRobert Macomber--The Muse Book Shop Deland FLDavid Fulmer--Eagle Eye Book Shop Decatur GAAbraham Verghese--Prairie Lights Iowa City IACharlie Brandt--Chapter One Bookstore Ketchum IDLuis Alberto Urrea--Anderson's Bookshops Naperville ILMike Leonard--The Book Stall Chestnut Court Winnetka ILAlbert Goldbarth--Watermark Books Wichita KSWendell Berry--Carmichael's Bookstore Louisville KYTom Piazza--Octavia Books New Orleans LAEdith Pearlman--Brookline Booksmith Brookline MAMameve Medwed--Porter Square Books Cambridge MAHenry Louis Gates Jr.--Harvard Book Store Cambridge MASimon Winchester--The Bookloft Great Barrington MANancy Thayer--Mitchell's Book Corner Nantucket MAElin Hilderbrand--Nantucket Bookworks Nantucket MAJeanne Birdsall--Broadside Bookshop Northampton MAMartha Ackmann--Odyssey Bookshop South Hadley MAWard Just--Bunch of Grapes Bookstore Vineyard Haven MARon Currie Jr.--Longfellow Books Portland MEancy Shaw--Nicola's Books Ann Arbor MIKatrina Kittle--Saturn Booksellers Gaylord MIAnn Patchett--Mclean &amp; Eakin Booksellers Petoskey MILouise Erdrich--Magers &amp; Quinn Booksellers Minneapolis MNPeter Geye--Micawber's Books St. Paul MNKathleen Finneran--Left Bank Books St. Louis MOBarry Moser--Lemuria Books Jackson MSJack Pendarvis--Square Books Oxford MSJill McCorkle--Flyleaf Books Chapel Hill NCCarrie Ryan--Park Road Books Charlotte NCLaurent Dubois--The Regulator Bookshop Durham NCLee Smith--Purple Crow Books Hillsborough NCAngela Davis-Gardner--Quail Ridge Books &amp; Music Raleigh NCRon Rash--City Lights Bookstore Sylva NCIan Frazier--Watchung Booksellers Montclair NJAudrey Vernick--Booktowne Manasquan NJJoan Wickersham--The Toadstool Bookshop Peterborough NHCarmela Ciuraru--Community Bookstore Brooklyn NYMatt Weiland--Greenlight Bookstore Brooklyn NYKate Christensen--WORD Brooklyn NYMick Cochrane--Talking Leaves Books Buffalo NYCaroline Leavitt--McNally Jackson Books New York NYArthur Nersesian--St. Mark's Bookshop New York NYFrancine Prose &amp; Pete Hamill--Strand Bookstore New York NYJeff Smith--Book Loft German Village Columbus OHChuck Palahniuk--Powell's Books Portland ORLarry Kane--Chester County Book &amp; Music Company West Chester PAAnn Hood--Island Books Middletown RIMindy Friddle--Fiction Addiction Greenville SCAdam Ross--Parnassus Books Nashville TNDouglas Brinkley--Book People Austin TXTerry Tempest Williams--The King's English Book Shop Salt Lake City UTHoward Frank Mosher--Galaxy Bookshop Hardwick VTJon Clinch--Northshire Bookstore Manchester VTJonathan Evison--Eagle Harbor Book Co. Bainbridge Island WATom Robbins--Village Books Bellingham WATimothy Egan--Elliott Bay Book Company Seattle WAStephanie Kallos--Third Place Books Lake Forest Park WAIvan Doig--University Book Store Seattle WALesley Kagen--Next Chapter Bookshop Mequon WILiam Callanan--Boswell Book Company Milwaukee WI
language: English
title: My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop
publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal