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.
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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
