Visitors to the booth will also be encouraged to provide video comments to the American Booksellers Association’s new “ Why Indies Matter” campaign.Ī portion of My Bookstore authors’ fees is being donated to a fund set up by the publisher to support bookseller scholarships to ABA’s Winter Institute, and a portion of the publisher’s revenue is being given to the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, the bookseller’s voice in the fight against censorship.īlack Dog and Leventhal is currently working on a series of events in bookstores across the country to coincide with the book’s fall release. To bring attention to My Bookstore at BookExpo America, the Black Dog & Leventhal booth (#4158) will be constructed and decorated to resemble a bookstore, and staff will be giving away a 40-page reader featuring eight author essays. “We are further honored to be part of a project that pays tribute to the values, virtues, and pleasures of a bricks-and-mortar experience.” “We are delighted to be able to work with so many bookstores and the wonderful authors who love those bookstores,” said Publisher JP Leventhal. Edited by Ronald Rice with illustrations by Leif Parsons and an introduction by Richard Russo, the book features essays from more than 75 authors who pay tribute to their favorite bookstores and booksellers. For them, as for most of us, bookstores serve as the anchor for our communities, the place that introduces us to new ideas (and new neighbors), and that sets our children on the path to becoming lifelong readers and lovers of books.īrimming with original, deeply moving, funny, and exceedingly well-crafted tributes to bookstores, from Longfellow Books in Portland, Maine (Ron Currie, Jr.) to Powells City of Books in Portland, Oregon (Chuck Palahniuk) and everywhere in between, My Bookstore is a joyful 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.On November 13, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers will release My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop. But authors are also readers and customers, just like us.
Often it is the author's local store that supported her during the early days of her career and that works tirelessly to introduce her work to new readers. The relationship between a writer and her local bookstore can last for years or even decades. In My Bookstore our favorite writers-from Elin Hilderbrand, to John Grisham, to Dave Eggers-express their adoration and admiration for their favorite bookstores and booksellers.
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