She received a Whiting Foundation Award and nonfiction fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, Best American Essays, and other magazines and anthologies. Jo Ann Beard is the author of a collection of autobiographical essays, The Boys of My Youth.
He is currently a publishing industry consultant. He was a four-time nominee for Publishers Weekly Sales Representative of the Year and has served multi-year terms on both the New England Independent Booksellers Association and Southern Booksellers Alliance advisory councils. He began his career at Koen Book Distributors and then served as Sales Director/Small Press Buyer for Bookazine, Co. Ronald Rice has worked in book publishing, as a sales and marketing professional, for more than 25 years. The anthology includes essays by Ron Rash, Elin Hildebrand, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Pico Iyer, Ann Packer, Isabel Allende, John Grisham, Lisa See, Dave Eggers, Luis Alberto Urrea, Simon Winchester, Ann Patchett and many more. Often it’s the author’s local store that supported him during the early days of his career, that continues to introduce and hand-sell her work to new readers, and that serves as the anchor for the community in which he lives and works. The relationship between a writer and his or her local store and staff can last for years or even decades. In the book, authors write about the pleasure, guidance, and support that their favorite bookstores and booksellers have given them over the years. Julia Booksellers (Connecticut) by Bob Shea Full Circle Books (Oklahoma) by Carolyn Hart Oblong Books & Music (New York) by Jo Ann Beard Writer’s Block Bookstore (Florida) by Kristin Harmel Moe’s Books (California) by Paolo Mancosu Charis Books & More (Georgia) by Pearl Cleage Munro’s Books (Canada) by Steven Price and Type Books (Canada) by Sheila Heti. and Canadian bookstores include Rainy Day Books (Kansas) by John Hart R.J. John Mandel, and illustrations by Leif Parsons. The collection includes an introduction by Richard Russo, an afterword by Emily St. Nine new essays have been added to the 82 enthusiastic, sometimes moving, sometimes funny tributes written by authors about their favorite bookstores, originally published in 2012. In time for Independent Bookstore Day celebrations across the country, on April 11 Black Dog & Leventhal, an imprint of the Hachette Book Group, will publish an updated, trade paperback edition of My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop, edited by Ron Rice.
My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop
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