recent exploits<\/a> have bookstores on the brain. As such, I asked professors what their favorite bookstores in the world are! I had an absolute blast being on the email chain as professors responded and fed off of each others\u2019 responses with agreement and enthusiasm.<\/p>\n\n\n\nCheck out some faculty favorite bookstores below \u2013 and keep your eyes peeled for next month\u2019s article, where we will feature even more <\/em>bookstore faculty favs!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n\u201cMy favorite bookstore is\/was pre-pandemic Moon Palace<\/strong> when they had the Geek Love caf\u00e9 inside and served coffee, beer and wine, and the best pizza in Minneapolis.\u201d \u2013 Professor Emma T\u00f6rzs<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cPegasus Books<\/strong> in Berkeley, CA. They have the warmest, kindest staff, and are housed in a sky-blue building that feels really inviting;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cGreen Apple Books<\/strong> on the Park in San Francisco, CA. I had my book launch here, and they put my name on a marquee sign!! So special to me!; <\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201c[And] The Montague Bookmill<\/strong> in Montague, MA. This used bookstore\/cafe\/music store is piled full of books, and sits alongside a river. Stepping inside feels like stepping out of time\u2014just imagine browsing books while a river rushes by.\u201d \u2013 Professor Sarah Ghazal Ali<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cGeiger’s Rare Books<\/strong> in Los Angeles, CA, a bookstore that’s secretly run by mobsters and exists only in Raymond Chandler’s private eye novel THE BIG SLEEP.\u201d \u2013 Professor Matt Burgess<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cPrairie Lights <\/strong>in Iowa City: This was the literary hub of a literary town. There was a bookseller named Paul who worked there, and when you first walked in, he’d ask you what writers you liked. Then he would walk around the store, giving an improvised lecture on who else you should read immediately and why. By the end of this magical tour, you would somehow have ten books in your arms and feel that you absolutely needed all of them. Also, there was a cafe upstairs with tables dedicated to all the famous writers who passed through the workshop. I still have dreams that I am browsing in this store.\u201d \u2014 Professor Peter Bognanni<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cWild Rumpus Books<\/strong> in Mpls! So fun!\u201d \u2013 Professor James Dawes<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by Birdie Keller ’25 My recent exploits have bookstores on the brain. As such, I asked professors what their favorite bookstores in the world are! I had an absolute blast being on the email chain as professors responded and fed off of each others\u2019 responses with agreement and enthusiasm. Check out some faculty favorite bookstores […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":10315,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10181","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10385,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10181\/revisions\/10385"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}