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. My guest today is Danny Caine, bookseller and co-owner of The Raven Bookstore in Lawrence, Kansas.
The Raven was founded in 1987 as a mystery-specialty store, and today you can walk in to find books of fiction, current events, environmental writing, children's books, science fiction, romance, and poetry. The poetry section in particular might have something to do with today’s guest, who is himself a published poet. But we’ll come back to that.
In recent years, the Raven and especially it’s majority owner Danny have become small business and anti-Amazon activists, through viral tweets turned into books, media appearances, such as this one, and a growing collection of activist zines. And as of 2022, the Raven is one of the very few employee-owned bookstores.
The Raven stands for something. It believes that reading books won't fix the world's problems, but they can be a pretty good place to start. It believes that Amazon is bad and the United States Postal Service is good. And it believes that small businesses and independent bookstores are vital to their communities.
Danny wrote 2 books on the topic too, so I’ve invited him on Got Books to talk about his career as a bookseller, his popular books encouraging us to protect independent bookstores and of course..books. Here’s my conversation with Danny Caine, from The Raven Book Store in Lawrence, Kansas.
--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gotbooks/messageMini-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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