A Visit to the Bookstore: Annie Clymer

from Plain Reading · host Katy Scrogin

We're joined by owner of Chapter House Books Annie Clymer, who tells us all about running a bookstore, giving old titles another chance, and the weird workings of memory. Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Trapani, libreria del Corso [cropped]. CC BY 4.0 image courtesy HaguardDuNord and Wikimedia Commons. Want to learn more about the books—and other media!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on LibraryThing, Goodreads, and Mastodon—and show your support at Liberapay! Richard Ayoade The Unfinished Harauld Hughes Eve Babitz Ceren Beilin Blackfishing the IUD Ceren Beilin Revenge of the Scapegoat Ceren Beilin Sea, Poison Eula Biss On Immunity Brian Blanchfield Proxies: Essays Near Knowing Jorge Luis Borges Chapter House Books Chloë Clifton-Wright "Posterity Is Vulgar" Percival Everett Erasure Will Ferguson Hokkaido Highway Blues (now Hitching Rides with Buddha) Jonathan Franzen Frank Herbert Dune Dave Hickey Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy Rachel Ingalls Mrs. Caliban James Joyce Ulysses Stephen King Danse Macabre Stephen King On Writing Stanley Kubrick The Shining Dorothea Lasky Animal Norman Mailer The Naked and the Dead Ottessa Moshfegh Death in Her Hands Ottessa Moshfegh Eileen Ottessa Moshfegh My Year of Rest and Relaxation Doireann Ní Ghríofa A Ghost in the Throat Lauren Oyler Fake Accounts Lauren Oyler No Judgment Fernando Pessoa Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar Thomas Pynchon Shadow Ticket The New York Review of Books The New Yorker David Foster Wallace "Consider the Lobster" John Williams Augustus John Williams Butcher's Crossing John Williams Stoner Joy Williams The Quick and the Dead Rachel Yoder Nightbitch

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