Posts Tagged: Booksellers Rock

November 7, 2012

<b>Booksellers Rock!</b> Gerry Donaghy, Powell’s

Booksellers Rock! Gerry Donaghy, Powell’s

Name: Gerry Donaghy Bookstore: Powell’s City of Books Title: New Book Purchasing Supervisor Brief Bio: I was born in Philadelphia in the late 60’s, graduated from Reed College, and have worked at …

July 11, 2011

Booksellers Rock!  Liberty Hardy, RiverRun Bookstore

Booksellers Rock! Liberty Hardy, RiverRun Bookstore

Name: Liberty Hardy Bookstore: RiverRun Bookstore Title: Book Slinger Brief Bio: Voracious velocireader. General mischief maker. Currently manning the switchboard in the Write Place, Write Time secret volcano lair (www.writeplacewritetime.tumblr.com). What books …

January 13, 2011

Booksellers Rock!  Sheryl Cotleur, Book Passage

Booksellers Rock! Sheryl Cotleur, Book Passage

What books recently rocked my world: . The View From Lazy Point by Carl Safina – one of the best writers out there on the natural world, particularly oceans, this book is …

November 12, 2010

Booksellers Rock! Erica Eisdorfer, Bull’s Head Bookshop

Erica Eisdorfer, long-time  manager of the Bull’s Head Bookshop, is the funniest person in the Triangle. Seriously. Just ask anyone who lives here. She’s also a talented writer in her own right–her …

November 11, 2010

Booksellers Rock! Keebe Fitch, McIntyre’s Books

Pittsboro is technically outside of the Triangle area, but it’s so close and has such distinctive charm that we consider it an honorary member of the area. Many Triangle residents make the …

November 10, 2010

Booksellers Rock! Tom Campbell, The Regulator Bookshop

Over half of our Chapel Hill office lives in Durham, which is (undeniably) the coolest town in the Triangle. We–the 50% plus of us, that is–are not-so-secretly trying to move our office …

November 9, 2010

Booksellers Rock! Nancy Olson, Quail Ridge Books

Quail Ridge is the major independent bookstore in Raleigh, NC–hometown of David and Amy Sedaris. It was voted the Best Bookstore of the Year by Publishers Weekly about a decade ago, and …

November 8, 2010

Booksellers Rock! Land Arnold, Flyleaf Books

The Triangle area of North Carolina—Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill—is famous for a lot of things:  stellar restaurants (three of which made Gourmet‘s most recent Top 50 Restaurants list), musicians (Ben Folds, Ryan …