On this episode, I’m joined by Amy Ford and Lindsey Gartman, sisters who own Woven Words Bookshop, a book and craft shop in Akron, Ohio.

Books We Talk About: Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson, The Correspondent by Virginia Evans, Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr, The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman, Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane, A Place Called Home by David Ambroz

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On this episode, I’m joined by Brittany Haynes, owner of Book Bar in Palmyra, Pennsylvania. Books We Talk About: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Remnants of a Scarlet Flame by Cindy L. Sell

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On this episode, we head to the Pacific Northwest to visit with Sascha and Gem Schaudies, owners of Bundok Books in Puyallup, Washington.

Books We Talk About: Gender Swapped Fairy Tales by Karrie Fransman and Jonathan Plackett, Saints of Storm and Sorrow Gabriella Buba, Battle of the Butts Jocelyn Rish, The Last Gifts of the Universe by Riley August, The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley, The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert

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This week we visit with Linda Kass, novelist and owner of Gramercy Books in Bexley, Ohio. Located in suburban Columbus, Gramercy is known for its series of fantastic author events and much more.

Books We Talk About: The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa, The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara, The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead, Stoner by John Williams, The Queen’s Gambit by Walter Tevis, A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan, The Waiting by Michael Connelly, The Stolen Queen by Fiona Davis and more!

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Last week, we welcomed to the pod Evan Friss, author of The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore. This week, we visit with his wife, Amanda Friss, owner of Parentheses Books in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Books We Talk About: The works of Kevin Brockmeier, West Heart Kill by Dann McDorman and Once More Upon a Time by Roshani Chokshi

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This week, we talk with Evan Friss, author of The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore, out now from Penguin Random House. Starting with Benjamin Franklin and moving up to the present day, it is a love letter to bookstores that The New York Times calls "A spirited defense of this important, odd and odds-defying American retail category."

Books We Talk About: The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs and the works of Donna Tartt, Haruki Murakami, Kurt Vonnegut and George Saunders.

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Today, we’re visiting Happy Magpie Book & Quill in Ogden, Utah. I’m joined by owner Patrick Ramsay, who operates the shop on a unique pay-what-you-want model.

Books We Talk About: Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed, Red Rising by Pierce Brown, Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen by KJ Charles, and Instructions for Traveling West by Joy Sullivan.

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John Evans opened Lemuria Books in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1975 and joins me to discuss his five decades in bookselling.

Books We Talk About: From Moby Dick to Eudora Welty, we cover a lot in this one!

Our theme music is Whiskey River II by Erin Eades. Check her out wherever you stream music or visit ErinEadesMusic.com.

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