We’ve had a wonderful time selecting titles for the Skylarking Book Club so far. There…
There are many perks to this job. First of all, we get to spend our…
One of the most interesting sections of Skylark Bookshop is up on the mezzanine floor,…
Like most shops, independent bookstores do a pretty significant amount of their annual business between…
Very few writers presently writing have been showered with as many accolades as Colson Whitehead.…
I would hate to sell socks. Not that I have anything against socks, of course…
When Carrie Koepke and I began thinking about opening an independent bookstore in downtown Columbia,…
A memory about a beautiful escape. About 25 years ago, I was on a coach…
I have a beautiful framed picture on my desk. The image is a silhouette…
Over the course of a perfect weekend at the end of April, the first…
Every year, the columns of magazines and newspapers and the airwaves of NPR stations…
Regular readers of this column know that I have a pretty desperate problem with inventory…
