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The Book Case

Evan Friss Traces the History of American Bookstores

The Book Case

ABC News

Fiction, Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.1766 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Today we talk about a book that seems tailor-made to our show, given our conversations with independent booksellers. The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore is a book that, if you are a book lovers like we are, will give you the same warm, smiling feeling you get when you walk into your favorite bookstore. And we talk to Toby Cox, the owner of Three Lives & Company, one of Evan’s favorites. Books mentioned in this week's episode: The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore by Evan Friss On Bicycles: A 200-Year History of Cycling in New York City by Evan Friss The Cycling City: Bicycles and Urban America in the 1890s by Evan Friss All Fours by Miranda July The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry Waterlogged: The Serious Problem of Overhydration in Endurance Sports by Tim Noakes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:33.6

Welcome all of you to the bookcase with Kate and Charlie.

0:41.2

Charlie being the supplemental host.

0:43.7

Oh my gosh, he's gotten a hold of the thesaurus again.

0:47.2

I am Kate.

0:48.2

I don't know.

0:49.2

I'm the daughter.

0:50.0

I'm the daughter.

0:52.2

I'm the other host.

0:53.0

I don't have a the thesaurus in front of me.

0:55.4

If we had to pick out a book that was written for this podcast, it might be the bookshop

1:00.2

written by Evan Friss. It is a new book just out, and it is a history of bookstores in America.

1:06.8

And since we feature an independent bookstore at the end, we like to talk to people who own them, who manage them, because we think they're so important.

1:16.2

The publisher called us up and said, you've got to do this book.

1:19.3

It is made for the bookcase with Kate and Charlie.

1:24.2

And it is.

1:25.8

And what I love about this book is it definitely hits all the timelines. I mean, it starts with Ben Franklin opening the print shop where he was making pamphlets at this country's birth. Till now, it's got the warmth and the coziness that you would expect in a book that's written about book shops. It gives you that sort of, I don't know, literary hug.

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