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Five Questions with Gayle Shanks of Changing Hands Bookstore

Jun 27, 2012

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Libby O’Neill

in Booksellers, Interviews

We love ourselves a good independent bookseller. And when it comes to booksellers that will stop at nothing to get you the most interesting, outside-the-box, see-the-world-a-different way books out there, Gayle Shanks is hard to beat. Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe, Arizona has been going strong since 1974 and isn’t showing any signs of stopping.
Nathan Leslie: Short Stories Are a Slice of Life

May 25, 2012

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Nathan Leslie

in Of Literary Interest, Writing

In my fantasy world grocery stores would carry short story collections, placing them right next to the cash registers—next to the Kit-Kats and Twizzlers. One of the ironies of American readership is that novels sell better than short story collections. This has always struck me as counter-intuitive. Short fiction is not only arguably a superior…