Got Books? Conversations with Booksellers
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Welcome back to Got Books, the podcast where we talk to booksellers all around the world.
Today we are going to the United States, in Madison, New Jersey, to a bookshop with the most fitting of names - The Nature of Reading. The concept of this bookshop feels quite unique to me: pulling together the joy and wonder of the natural world with the knowledge and passion to fight for its survival. It is an environmental bookstore sand it specializes in seasonal reading, nature writing, and climate change books, helping spread the messages of local environmental groups and leading both children and adults to reconnect with nature and reading.I love so many things about this bookshop - how it began as a pandemic quest for more meaning, how young and brave Hailey, its founder, is, how it first started as a pop up bookshop and then with community support turned into what it is today, how it has a tree inside the shop (ok, not a real tree..but not all kids can tell), and especially how it wants to raise awareness and action when it comes to the climate crisis by taking a gentle approach rooted in love and appreciation for nature. Here's my conversation with Hailey.
Mini-Episode 4: News in Books & Book Review w. Daniela Barani (A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles)
S2 Ep 3: Nadia Wassef, Diwan (Cairo, Egypt)
Mini-Episode 3: News in Books & Book Review w. Victoria Wood (Assembly by Natasha Brown)
S2 Ep 2: Book Cover Design w. Terry Miura & Darya Solomenko
Mini-Episode 2: News in Books & Book Review w. Molly Hills (Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney)
S2 Ep 1: Golden Hare (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Mini-Episode 1: News in Books & Book Review w. Phoebe (Attached by Amir Levine and Rachel Heller)
Season 2: Trailer
S1 Ep. 17: Future Booksellers & Ana Sipciu, Asteroidul B612 (Bucharest, Romania)
S1 Ep. 16: Madeline Gressel, McNally Jackson (New York, US)
S1 Ep. 15: Jane Turner, Gertrude & Alice (Sydney, Australia)
S1 Ep. 14: VaLinda Miller, Turning Page (Goose Creek, South Carolina, US)
S1 Ep. 13: Samir Mansour, Samir Mansour Bookshop (Gaza, Palestine)
S1 Ep. 12: Kenny Leck, Books Actually (Singapore)
S1 Ep. 11: Mark Thornton, Bookshop.Org & Founder of Mostly Books (Oxford, UK)
S1 Ep. 10: Martin Latham, Waterstones (Canterbury, UK) & Author of The Bookseller's Tale
S1 Ep. 9: Samuel Medina, Libros AC (San Juan, Puerto Rico)
S1 Ep. 8: Pil Cappelen Smith, Cappelens Forslag (Oslo, Norway)
S1 Ep. 7: Angela Franklin, Chez Alpha Books (Dakar, Senegal)
S1 Ep. 6: Arabella Friesen & Johnny de Falbe, John Sandoe Books (London, UK)
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