The Bookshop Podcast

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The Book Den and Arthur Hoyle Jan 04, 2021

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In this episode, I'm at The Book Den in Santa Barbara, California, speaking with owner Eric Kelley and the author Arthur Hoyle. Arthur's biography of Henry Miller, The Unknown Henry Miller, was published in March 2014 by Skyhorse/Arcade. His second non-fiction book, Mavericks, Mystics, and Misfits: Americans Against the Grain, was published March 17, 2020, by Sunbury Press.
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The Book Den – Santa Barbara, CA.

Advanced Book Exchange

The Elegance of the Hedgehog – Muriel Barbery

Arthur Hoyle, Author

Titicut Follies – a documentary by Frederick Wiseman

Moby Dick - Herman Melville

Slavery in Australia

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Georgia Court, Owner Bookstore 1, and Author Karen R. Koenig LCSW, M. Ed. Dec 28, 2020

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This week I start the show on the Californian coast before heading off to Sarasota, Florida, where I catch up with Georgia Court, the owner of Bookstore 1. I later speak with author Karen R. Koenig LCSW, M.Ed. Karen is a licensed psychotherapist, motivational speaker, and international author who has specialized in the field of compulsive, emotional, and restrictive eating for more than 30 years.

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Belinda Carlisle – Circle in the Sand

Belinda Carlisle – Mad About You

Belinda Carlisle – I Get Weak

Belinda Carlisle – Heaven is a Place on Earth

Bookstore 1 Sarasota

Falling To Earth – Kate Southwood

Karen R Koenig

Karen Koenig Books

The Magus – John Fowles

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The Yankee Bookshop and author Geza Tatrallyay Dec 21, 2020

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This week I'm in the village of Woodstock, Vermont, speaking with Kari and Kristian, co-owners of The Yankee Bookshop, and author and poet, Geza Tatrallyay. If you enjoy poetry—and ghost stories—I'm sure you'll enjoy this episode!
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The Yankee Bookshop

Woodstock Vermont

Libro.fm

Bookstock Vermont

Upcoming Events at The Yankee Bookshop

The Yankee Bookshop is currently doing a book drive - which is another great way to support the store and help get books to kids across Vermont & New Hampshire.

Station Eleven

The Pull of the Stars

Hamnet

The Plague

The Great Influenza

How to be an Antiracist

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Allison Hill, CEO American Booksellers Association Dec 16, 2020

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Every so often, I’ll be posting an interview I feel is time-relevant. It is imperative to support local businesses during the pandemic, not only bookshops but all small businesses. Today my guest is Allison Hill, CEO American Booksellers Association. While her work is focused primarily on independent bookshops, she is knowledgeable in entrepreneurship, anti-trust issues, eCommerce, and demographics. We chat about all this and more and help you understand why it’s so important, whenever possible, to keep your purchases in your hometown.
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American Booksellers Association

Book Soup

Vroman’s Bookstore

Mystery Pier Books, Inc.

Indie Bound

The Dude and the Zen Master

Squeeze Me
Essays by Allison:

Love and Bookstores

This Book Will Change Your Life

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Andersons Larchmont, NY, and Jacob M. Appel Dec 14, 2020

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This week I'm in Larchmont, New York, speaking with Andersons Larchmont bookshop owner Paulene Greeman and author Jacob M. Appel.
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Thoughts On Homeschooling Essay

Andersons Larchmont

Funny Farm Movie

Carrie Dean, IBCLC

Jacob M. Appel
Jacob -- Documentary

Tina Howe

Order Jacob’s Books From Bookshop.org

Harriet Washington: Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

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Cupboard Maker Books and author Maria V. Snyder Dec 07, 2020

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This week I’m in Enola, Pennsylvania, chatting with Michelle Haring, owner of Cupboard Maker Books, and author Maria V. Snyder.

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Cupboard Maker Books

The Booksellers Documentary

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West Side Books & Kali Fajardo-Anstine Nov 30, 2020

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West Side Books is an independent bookstore in the historic Highlands neighborhood of Northwest Denver, providing new, used, and unusual books to the community since 1997. I’m speaking with West Side Books’ owner, Lois Harvey, and store manager, Matt Aragon. Later I talk with local author Kali Fajardo-Anstine, author of Sabrina and Corina.
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West Side Books

James Baldwin

Guild of Book Workers

The Edible Book

American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Leave the World Behind - Rumaan Alam

Home Going - Yaa Gyasi

Becoming Duchess Goldblatt

Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White

The Woman Who Lived in a Prologue - Nina Schneider

Gloriana: Or, The Unfulfill’d Queen - Michael Moorcock

A Fortunate Life – A.B. Facey

Kali Fajardo-Anstine

Kali on Instagram

Sabrina and Corina - Kali Fajardo-Anstine

The Rain God – Arturo Islas

Pen America

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Mitchell's Book Corner & Wendy Rouillard Nov 23, 2020

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Sometime around mid-March, my Earth Mother alter ego kicked in and has since gone into overdrive. Every few days, a malodorous smell wafts from the kitchen—that's the sourdough starter telling me it's ready for attention. I've lost count of how many pics of flowery-patterned loaves I've posted on Instagram. Gone are the bookish images and texts that filled my feed pre-COVID. If I can't eat it, grow it, or walk it, the image isn’t getting posted. I'm not saying my bibliophile persona has gone AWOL. Instead, I'm on a rereading binge; a compulsive need to be comforted by characters dear to my heart and familiar faraway lands.

This episode took me to Nantucket, Massachusetts, a place I’d love to visit. I chat with Wendy Morton, owner of Mitchell’s Book Corner, and local children’s author and illustrator, Wendy Rouillard.

Here’s a list of links, authors, and books mentioned in this podcast.

· Mitchell’s Book Corner & Nantucket Bookworks

· Nantucket Chamber of Commerce

· The Second Story Loft

· Maria Mitchell

· Nathaniel Philbrick

· Elin Hildebrand

· Nancy Thayer

· Steven Axelrod

· Isabel Wilkerson – author of Caste

· Ibram X. Kendi – author of How To Be An Antiracist

· Daniel Silva – author of The Order

· Libro.fm – audiobooks

· Bookshop.org

· Ruth Bader Ginsburg – I Know This to Be True

· I Know I Can

· Wendy Rouillard and Barnaby Bear

· Barnaby Bear on Instagram

· Wendy Rouillard on Facebook

Buy Local. Read Global. Support your local indie bookshop.

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Bookshop Santa Cruz & Jill Wolfson Nov 16, 2020

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1987 proved to be a year of major change for me. It was the year I worked with the exceptional David Bowie as the stylist on the music video Day in, Day Out, directed by Julian Temple, and after a lot of coaxing, I joined Bowie and the rest of the crew on the Glass Spider Tour. I left the tour after a few months for a variety of reasons, some related to incidents that occurred on the road, the stress of which did little to maintain my recent sobriety.

1987 was also the year I met my husband, Brian Beverly. We met on the set of an Eddie Money music video—an all-nighter, well, two actually, shot in an alley Downtown LA, with, of course, a rainmaker and fog machine…lots of fog. This was, after all, a David Fincher shoot where the atmosphere is crucial.

So how does my story relate to this episode of The Bookshop Podcast? How did I get from music videos to bookshops, books, and authors? Well, you’ll need to listen to find out.

Join me in Santa Cruz, California, while I chat with Casey Coonerty Protti at Bookshop Santa Cruz and local author Jill Wolfson.

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· Bookshop Santa Cruz

· Instagram

· KEEP KIDS READING FUNDRAISER

· Ibram X. Kendi How to be an anti-racist

· Maggie O'Farrell Hamnet

· Jill Wolfson

· The Beat Within

· Somebody Else’s Children The Courts, the Kids, and the Struggle to Save America's Troubled Families

· What I Call Life

· Home, and Other Big, Fat Lies

· Cold Hands, Warm Heart

· Furious

· Dear Concerned Mother

· Lucas And Sarah This American Life

· Bay Area Parent Jill Wolfson editor

· Brian Beverly Music

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The Iliad & Lisa Morton Nov 09, 2020

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During the 80s and 90s, I spent most of my time in Los Angeles working as a costume designer and stylist. My work included scouring thrift and vintage stores in Venice Beach, Santa Monica, Hollywood, and the valley.

Magnolia Boulevard in Burbank and Lankershim Boulevard in North Hollywood were full of fabulous dinky stores overflowing with bargains, and more than once, my heart raced when I reached for a vintage piece hidden under a pile of used clothing. To me, it was like finding gold!

While working on the music video for Tom Petty’s Free Falling, I think I bought out most of the 50s and 60s clothing and jewelry in the valley and topped it off with pieces from my collection along with rentals from costume houses.

You can say all you want about 80s and 90s hair and make-up, but being involved with the early days of music videos sure was fun!

In this episode, I head back to the valley, but this time I’m off to chat with Dan Weinstein, owner of The Iliad Bookshop, about books, rescue cats, and graphic novels. Later my guest is fiction and non-fiction author Lisa Morton.

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Here’s a list of links, authors, and books mentioned in this podcast.

· The Iliad Bookshop

· Heritage Bookshop

· Paul Dilworth

· The Iliad exterior murals

· Charles Bukowski

· John Fante

· Lisa Morton

· Reaktion Books

· Dennis Etchison The Dog Park, The Dark Country

· Horror Writers Association