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I start this episode by chatting with Kris Kleindienst, co-owner of Left Bank Books in St. Louis, Missouri, and then head over to California to speak with Joy Lanzendorfer, author of Right Back Where We Started From. 

Left Bank Books is the oldest and largest independently-owned full-line bookstore in St. Louis, Missouri. They offer a full line of new and used books, gifts, cards, magazines, toys, and services.

The staff at Left Bank Books are a fiercely committed group. Many are writers, performers, and artists who personally appreciate the importance of a store like Left Bank, not only to the cultural health of a community but to the health of its creative people, too! Many Left Bankers are involved in other community organizations as volunteers and activists and support issues such as peace, racial justice, civil rights, urban sustainability, education, animal rights, and support for the arts. 

Joy Lanzendorfer is the author of Right Back Where We Started From, a multigenerational work of fiction that explores the lust for ambition that entered into the American consciousness during the Gold Rush and how it affected our nation’s ideas of success, failure, and the pursuit of happiness. 

Joy’s non-fiction work has been in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Poetry Foundation, Ploughshares, NPR, Smithsonian, and Raritan. And Her fiction has appeared in Tin House, The Guardian, Hotel Amerika, Alaska Quarterly Review, and many others. 

Left Bank Books

This is What Lesbian Looks Like: Dyke Activists Take on the 21st Century, Kris Kleindienst (Editor)

Ruby Fruit Jungle, Rita Mae Brown

Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer

Joy Lanzendorfer

Right Back Where We Started From, Joy Lanzendorfer

George Sterling Article, Joy Lanzendorfer

Jack London Article, Joy Lanzendorfer

What’s The Story Podcast With Joy Lanzendorfer

Joy Lanzendorfer Keynote Speech at the Southern California Writer’s Conference

Beloved, Toni Morrison

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Hi, today I'm in Scottsdale, Arizona, chatting with Barbara Peters, store owner and event coordinator at the Poisoned Pen Bookstore, and mystery author C.C. Harrison.

Barbara Peters founded The Poisoned Pen, one of the world's largest mystery bookstores, in 1989, and later co-founded Poisoned Pen Press, a separate corporation dedicated to publishing mystery, making available originals and reprints. Poisoned Pen Press is now an imprint of sourcebooks.

 Barbara is the winner of the Raven Award from the Mystery Writers of America for the Poisoned Pen bookstore. She was the 2007 Bouchercon Fan Guest of Honor, and with husband, publisher Robert Rosenwald, the 2008 Bouchercon Lifetime Achievement Award honoree, again for their work with The Poisoned Pen franchise. In 2011 Peters was presented a Lifetime Achievement Award as CEO of a million-dollar company by the Arizona Republic.

Mystery author C. C. Harrison knew she was going to be a writer when her mother took her to the library for the first time as a child. Since then she's written five award-winning crime novels. Her newest book, a cozy mystery, "Death by G-String" introduces us to the Coyote Canyon Ladies Ukulele Club whose first-place win in a folk music competition is jeopardized when their star player is strangled to death with a ukulele G-String.

The Poisoned Pen Bookstore

 Poisoned Pen Press

 Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow

 Michael Robotham, author

 The Poisoned Pen Bookstore, Podcast

 The Poisoned Pen Book Clubs

 The Poisoned Pen Facebook videos

 C.C. Harrison, mystery, history, romance

 Death by G-String, C.C. Harrison

 Christy Hubbard Books

 Creative Mind System, Dr. Jeffrey Thompson

 The Current, Tim Johnson

 No Exit, Taylor Adams

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Ellen Datlow has been editing sf/f/h short fiction for four decades. She was fiction editor of OMNI Magazine and SCIFICTION and currently acquires short stories and novellas for Tor.com and Nightfire. 

She has edited numerous anthologies for adults, young adults, and children, including The Best Horror of the Year annual series, Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles. Forthcoming are When Things Get Dark: Stories inspired by Shirley Jackson  and the reprint anthology Body Shocks. 

She’s won multiple World Fantasy Awards, Locus Awards, Hugo Awards, Stoker Awards, International Horror Guild Awards, Shirley Jackson Awards, and the 2012 Il Posto Nero Black Spot Award for Excellence as Best Foreign Editor. Datlow was named recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for “outstanding contribution to the genre,” was honored with the Life Achievement Award by the Horror Writers Association, in acknowledgment of superior achievement over an entire career, and honored with the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award at the 2014 World Fantasy Convention.

Ellen Datlow

KGB Bar

Body Shocks, Ellen Datlow, editor

When Things Get Dark, stories inspired by Shirley Jackson, Ellen Datlow, editor

Ellen Datlow, Awards List

Ellen Datlow, Books

TOR.COM

William Gibson

Elizabeth Hand

Jonathan Carroll

Bruce Sterling on The Bookshop Podcast, episode 28

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Hi, this week I'm in North Carolina and Georgia chatting with Alissa Redmond, owner of South Main Book company in Salisbury, and poet and found of P.R.A. Publishing Lucinda J. Clark.

Alissa Redmond is the owner of South Main Book Company in Salisbury, NC. She previously served in India, Afghanistan, Washington DC, Hong Kong, and Bolivia as a diplomat with the U.S. Department of State. She also worked in the City of New Orleans' Mayor's Office for Health Policy post-Hurricane Katrina and served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Fiji. A graduate of the N.C. School of Science and Math, UNC-Wilmington, and Duke University (Master's Degree in Public Policy), Alissa is proud to raise her six and ten-year-old daughters in their home state of North Carolina.

After an already-full career as a supporter of the arts through being an art dealer, gallery owner, and artist agent, Lucinda J. Clark began P.R.A. Publishing in 2002 with the mission of giving diverse voices in literature a chance to shine. 

P.R.A. Publishing believes in lifting up communities through their passion for books and expanding the diversity of voices in the world pertaining to books. To do so, they work with book festivals and in schools to celebrate and encourage reading, literacy, and diversity.

South Main Book Company, NC.

Little Free library

South Main Book Company on Bookshop.org

See No Stranger, Valarie Kaur

Her Right Foot, Dave Eggers, art by Shawn Harris

 Last Best Hope, George Packer

 The Bookshop Podcast episode 49 with author Katie Crouch

P.R.A. Publishing

Poetry Matters Project

Caste, Isabel Wilkerson

Books by Lucinda J. Clark 

Books by Geza Tratrallyay

 The Bookshop Podcast, episode 9 with author Geza Tatrallyay

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Hi, and welcome to Astoria, New York, where I'm speaking with Lexi Beach from Astoria Bookshop, and Luke Epplin author of Our Team!

Lexi Beach and Connie Rourke opened Astoria Bookshop in 2013 in Western Queens, NY. While known for their well-curated shelves, they also sell signed books from local authors, puzzles, candles, soaps, and bookish gifts, and bookseller’s choice bundles.  

Luke Epplin is the author of OUR TEAM, The Epic Story Of Four Men And The World Series That Changed Baseball. His writing has appeared online in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, GQ, Slate, Salon, The Daily Beast, and The Paris Review Daily. Born and raised in rural Illinois, Luke now lives in New York City.

Astoria Bookshop, NY

Astoria Bookshop Events Calendar

Our Team, Luke Epplin (signed copies available at this link) 

Wake, Rebecca Hall, Illustrated By Hugo Martinez 

Luke Epplin

 Luke Epplin, Journalist: Muck Rack

 Pictures of a Revolution, Mark Harris

 October 1964, David Halberstam

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Sue Arroyo
CEO & Publisher

Sue Arroyo is the founder and publisher of CamCat Books, the first imprint of CamCat Publishing. A visionary propelled by determination, she built CamCat at the intersection of emerging technology and authorial passion. 

As a self-proclaimed entrepreneur, Sue opened CamCat Publishing, LLC, for business in 2019. CamCat Publishing is her seventh company. She launched the company for the love of story, those tales that bewitch and dazzle you, grab hold of you, and won’t let go. She calls them Books to Live In.

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CamCat Books

Helga Schier, Ph.D.  Interview The Bookshop Podcast

CamCat Team

The Taxidermist’s Lover, Polly Hall

CamCat Perspectives (Imprint)

 CamCat Submissions Guidelines

 Shadow And Bone, Leigh Bardugo

 Persuasion, Jane Austin

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Hi, Fellow Bibliophiles!

Today I’m in stunning Anacortes, Washington State chatting with Brandy Bowen from Watermark Book Company and local author Kathleen Kaska.

Watermark Book Company is a locally owned independent bookshop in the heart of beautiful downtown Anacortes, where they’ve been since 1989. They sell new books—bestsellers, old favorites, classics, and other book-related miscellanea. They also carry Theo chocolate, made in Seattle from organic fair-trade beans. Watermark Book Company is now owned by Brandy and Ben Bowen.

Kathleen Kaska graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in physical anthropology and taught middle-school science for 25 years. She was a staff writer for AustinFit magazine from 1997-2002, and her articles have appeared in Cape Cod Life, Marco Polo, Agatha Christie Chronicle, Texas Now, and Home Cooking Magazine. Kathleen is the author of six fiction and 5 non-fiction books.

Watermark Book Company

Theo Chocolate

Bridge to Terabithia, Katherine Paterson, Donna Diamond (illustrator)

This Is How It Always Is: A Novel, Laurie Frankel

 Indie Bound, Watermark Book Company

Kathleen Kaska

Kathleen Kaska, Books

New Victim, Same Tragedy: The Plight of the American Mustang (Mandy Jackson-Beverly – Huffington Post Blogpost)

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

 Essays of E.B.White

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Hi, and thanks for visiting The Bookshop Podcast!

Today I’m in Winnipeg, Canada speaking with Michael Bumsted from Whodunit Mystery Bookstore. Later I’m in London—via Zoom—chatting with Chris Carter, author of the Robert Hunter detective series.

WHODUNIT Mystery Bookstore opened for business in 1994 and in 2007 loyal customers Jack and Wendy Bumsted became the new owners. WHODUNIT is Winnipeg's specialty mystery bookstore, offering a full range of crime fiction. The bookstore hosts a Mystery Reading Club and has readings and signings by mystery authors.

WHODUNIT has become a family affair, with son Michael an award-winning bookseller (Chase Paymentech Young Bookseller of the Year, 2013), and daughter Sian as social media and general internet guru. 

WHODUNIT carries both new and used books and can special-order any book that is commercially available, as well as ship to out-of-town customers, accept pre-orders for Winnipeg-based customers, and deliver to those unable to reach the bookstore themselves.

 Chris Carter was born in Brasilia, Brazil. After graduation from high school, he moved to the United States where he studied psychology with a specialization in criminal behavior. During his university years, he held a variety of odd jobs, ranging from flipping burgers to being part of an all-male exotic dancing group.

Chris worked as a criminal psychologist for several years before moving to Los Angeles where he swapped the suits and briefcases for ripped jeans, bandanas, and an electric guitar. After a spell playing for a few well-known glam rock bands, he tried his luck in London, where he played for several famous artists and toured the world several times as a professional musician. A few years ago he gave it all up to become a full-time writer.

Whodunit Mystery Bookstore

J.M. Bumsted & Michael C. Bumsted, authors

List of crime fiction genres

Fortune Favors the Dead, Stephen Spotswood

Books by Michael van Rooy

An Evil Mind, Chris Carter

Chris Carter

Chris Carter Books

Hemmingway: A Film By Ken Burns and Lynn Novick

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Welcome to the Wednesday edition of The Bookshop Podcast!

My guest today is writer, creative producer, and learning designer, Megahn Modafferi.

Meghan Modafferi is a writer and multimedia producer with a focus on developing compelling educational content and experiences. She’s designed, launched, and facilitated digital and in-person learning experiences for corporate and nonprofit clients, university faculty, and K-12 students and teachers — in both domestic and international settings. National Geographic, Slate, and the NPR-affiliate, WUNC, have published her writing and media.

Links for this episode:

Meghan Modafferi

Novel Climate, podcast

Subway Mediation, Meghan Modafferi

National Geographic Educator Certification

Transcendent  Kingdom, Yaa Gyasi

The Bookshop Podcast Interview With Peter Gray

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Hello fellow bibliophiles! 

Today I’m in Belfast, Northern Ireland chatting with Linda Murray from Books, Paper, Scissors, an independent bookshop in Belfast. They stock a curated selection of new fiction and non-fiction, plus classics, Irish writing, and poetry. They also have a children’s room, with choices from newborn to teenager. Beyond books Books, Paper, Scissors stock high quality stationary, notebooks, pens, diaries, and greeting cards. Plus gift wrap and of course, scissors.

Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator based in East Belfast. Her debut novel Malcolm Orange Disappearsand short story collection, Children’s Children, were published by Liberties Press, Dublin. A micro-fiction collection, Postcard Stories was published by The Emma Press in 2017. Jan’s novel The Fire Starters was published by Doubleday in April 2019 and subsequently won the EU Prize for Literature for Ireland 2019. She has been shortlisted for the Sean O’Faolain Short Story Prize and in 2016 won the Harper’s Bazaar Short Story Prize.

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Links from this episode:

Books, Paper, Scissors

 Books, Paper, Scissors – Book Club

 Look! It’s a woman writer! Irish Literary Feminisms, 1980-2020 edited by Éilís Ní Dhuibhne

 Leonard and Hungry Paul, Ronan Hession

 Jan Carson

 The Fire Starters, Jan Carson

 The Last Resort, Jan Carson

 Postcard Stories, Jan Carson

 Postcard Stories 2, Jan Carson

 Children’s Children, Jan Carson

 Malcolm Orange Disappears, Jan Carson

 Jan Carson Books

 The Tin Drum, Günter Grass

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