Hannah OkaforThree Years Behind a Bookshop Counter Taught Me to Re-read
Customers kept asking for something new. The ones who seemed happiest were often coming back for something old.
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Amélie LefèvreI Work in a Lyon Bookshop. Here Is What People Actually Buy on Rainy Saturdays
Not the prize winners. A field report from behind the counter on how weather, mood and umbrellas change what we read.
Loretta AbernathyEditing a Church Cookbook Taught Me More About Writing Than College Did
Three hundred recipes from ninety-one women, and what they taught me about clarity, voice and the word "some."
Loretta AbernathyThe Summer I Read Jane Austen Out Loud to My Aunt
Her eyes were failing, my patience was short, and six novels later we were both different readers.
Loretta AbernathyThe Public Library Branch That Raised Me Still Smells Like Floor Wax
I went back to the little brick library of my childhood after forty years and found the same radiator, a new kind of patron, and one librarian who remembered me.
Hannah OkaforWhy Readers Never Seem to Finish With Pride and Prejudice
More than two centuries on, Austen's best-known novel still sells steadily in my shop. Here is my bookseller's theory of why.
Loretta AbernathySouthern Gothic Is Not a Costume: A Reader From Savannah Talks Back
Tourists come here for the ghosts and the moss, but the books that get this place right are about something quieter and harder.
Hannah OkaforNine Small Habits That Brought Me Back to Reading After Burnout
For almost a year I could not finish a book, which is awkward when you sell them for a living. These changes slowly fixed it.
Loretta AbernathyWhy I Keep a Reading Journal in a Cheap Spiral Notebook
Twelve years, nine notebooks, and the surprising things I learned about myself from the books I gave up on.
