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My bookstore, writers celebrate their favorite places to browse, read, and shop, edited by Ronald Rice and Booksellers Across America ; introduction by Richard Russo ; afterword by Emily St. John Mandel ; illustrations by Leif Parsons

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My bookstore

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edited by Ronald Rice and Booksellers Across America ; introduction by Richard Russo ; afterword by Emily St. John Mandel ; illustrations by Leif Parsons

writers celebrate their favorite places to browse, read, and shop

Martha Ackmann : The Odyssey Bookshop, South Hadley, MA -- Isabel Allende : Book Passage, Corte Madera, CA -- Rick Atkinson : Politics & Prose Bookstore, Washington, D.C. -- Wendell Berry : Carmichael's Bookstore, Louisville, KY -- Jeanne Birdsall : Broadside Bookshop, Northampton, MA -- Rick Bragg : The Alabama Booksmith, Birmingham, AL -- Charles Brandt : Chapter One Bookstore, Ketchum, ID -- Douglas Brinkley : BookPeople, Austin, TX -- Liam Callanan : Boswell Book Company, Milwaukee, WI -- Ron Carlson : Changing Hands Bookstore, Tempe, AZ -- Kate Christensen : Word, Brooklyn, NY -- Carmela Ciuraru : The Community Bookstore, Brooklyn, NY -- Meg Waite Clayton : Books Inc., Palo Alto, CA -- Jon Clinch : Northshire Bookstore, Manchester, VT -- Mick Cochrane : Talking Leaves Books, Buffalo, NY -- Ron Currie, Jr. : Longfellow Books, Portland, ME -- Angela Davis-Gardner : Quail Ridge Books & Music, Raleigh, NC -- Ivan Doig : University Book Store, Seattle, WA -- Laurent Dubois : The Regulator Bookshop, Durham, NC -- Timothy Egan : The Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle, WADave Eggers : Green Apple Books, San Francisco, CA -- Louise Erdrich : Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis, MN -- Jonathan Evison : Eagle Harbor Book Co., Bainbridge Island, WA -- Kathleen Finneran : Left Bank Books, St. Louis, MO -- Fannie Flagg : Page & Palette, Fairhope, AL -- Ian Frazier : Watchung Booksellers, Montclair, NJ -- Mindy Friddle : Fiction Addiction, Greenville, SC -- David Fulmer : Eagle Eye Book Shop, Decatur, GA -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr. : Harvard Book Store, Cambridge, MA -- Peter Geye : Micawber's, St. Paul, MN -- Albert Goldbarth : Watermark Books and Café, Wichita, KS -- John Grisham : That Bookstore in Blytheville, Blytheville, AR -- Pete Hamill : Strand Book Store, New York, NY -- Daniel Handler and Lisa Brown : The Booksmith, San Francisco, CA -- Elin Hilderbrand : Nantucket Bookworks, Nantucket, MA -- Ann Hood : Island Books, Middletown, RI -- Pico Iyer : Chaucer's Books, Santa Barbara, CA -- Ward Just : Bunch of Grapes Bookstore, Vineyard Haven, MA -- Lesley Kagen : Next Chapter Bookshop, Mequon, WI -- Stephanie Kallos : Third Place Books, Lake Forest Park, WALarry Kane : Chester County Book & Music Company, West Chester, PA -- Laurie R. King : Bookshop Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA -- Katrina Kittle : Saturn Booksellers, Gaylord, MI -- Scott Lasser : Explore Booksellers, Aspen, CO -- Ann Haywood Leal : Bank Square Books, Mystic, CT -- Caroline Leavitt : McNally Jackson Books, New York, NY -- Mike Leonard : The Book Stall at Chestnut Court, Winnetka, IL -- Robert N. Macomber : The Muse Book Shop, DeLand, FL -- Jill McCorkle : Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill, NC -- Mameve Medwed : Porter Square Books, Cambridge, MA -- Wendell and Florence Minor : The Hickory Stick Bookshop, Washington Depot, CT -- Barry Moser : Lemuria, Jackson, MS -- Howard Frank Mosher : Galaxy Bookshop, Hardwick, VT -- Arthur Nersesian : St. Mark's Bookshop, New York, NY -- Kate Niles : Maria's Bookshop, Durango, CO -- Ann Packer : The Capitola Book Café, Capitola, CA -- Chuck Palahniuk : Powell's City of Books, Portland, OR -- Ann Patchett : McLean & Eakin Booksellers, Petoskey, MI -- Edith Pearlman : Brookline Booksmith, Brookline, MA -- Jack Pendarvis : Square Books, Oxford, MSFrancine Prose : Strand Book Store, New York, NY -- Ron Rash : City Lights Bookstore, Sylva, NC -- Tom Robbins : Village Books, Bellingham, WA -- Adam Ross : Parnassus Books, Nashville, TN -- Carrie Ryan : Park Road Books, Charlotte, NC -- Lisa See : Vroman's Bookstore, Pasadena, CA -- Brian Selznick : Warwick's, La Jolla, CA -- Mahbod Seraji : Kepler's Books, Menlo Park, CA -- Nancy Shaw : Nicola's Books, Ann Arbor, MI -- Jeff Smith : The Book Loft of German Village, Columbus, OH -- Lee Smith : Purple Crow Books, Hillsborough, NC -- Les Standiford : Books & Books, Coral Gables, FL -- Nancy Thayer : Mitchell's Book Corner, Nantucket, MA -- Michael Tisserand : Octavia Books, New Orleans, LA -- Luis Alberto Urrea : Anderson's Bookshops, Naperville, IL -- Abraham Verghese : Prairie Lights, Iowa City, IA -- Audrey Vernick : BookTowne, Manasquan, NJ -- Matt Weiland : Greenlight Bookstore, Brooklyn, NY -- Stephen White : Tattered Cover Book Store, Denver, CO -- Joan Wickersham : The Toadstool Bookshop, Peterborough, NH -- Terry Tempest Williams : The King's English Bookshop, Salt Lake City, UT -- Simon Winchester : The Bookloft, Great Barrington, MA