{"id":296746,"date":"2014-03-06T21:17:46","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T21:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2014\/03\/06\/finalists-for-bookstore-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T15:44:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T15:44:25","slug":"finalists-for-bookstore-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2014\/03\/06\/finalists-for-bookstore-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Finalists for Bookstore of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was probably asleep at the wheel in years past, but I think it&#8217;s really cool that <em>Publishers Weekly<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookweb.org\/news\/pw-names-finalists-2014-bookstore-year\">announced the names<\/a> of the five finalists for 2014 Bookstore of the Year. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the list of the finalists with some commentary on why they should win:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elliottbaybook.com\/\">The Elliott Bay Book Company<\/a> (Seattle, Washington)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Do you have any idea how many Open Letter books are on display in this store? <em>Pets<\/em> (in multiple places), <em>High Tide<\/em> (a staff favorite), and <em>Elsewhere<\/em>, were three of the first books I noticed when I walked in there last week. If Elliott Bay takes it, I think it&#8217;s because of the &#8220;More Open Letter Books = Great Store&#8221; hypothesis. Also, they get bonus points for being &#8220;The&#8221; Elliot Bay Book Company. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenapplebooks.com\/\">Green Apple Books<\/a> (San Francisco, California)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stephen Fucking Sparks. Have you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=9832\">read this?<\/a> With it&#8217;s <span class=\"caps\">BTBA<\/span> judging pedigree and the fact that Green Apple once <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=2129\">featured <em>Vilnius Poker<\/em> in a video<\/a> they may just pull this out. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcleanandeakin.com\/\">McLean &amp; Eakin Booksellers<\/a> (Petoskey, Michigan)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never been to McLean &amp; Eakin, but as a Michigander, I spent a week every year from K through 5th Grade polishing <a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/3\/39\/Petoskey_stone_Hexagonaria_percarinata_2.jpg\">Petoskey stones.<\/a> So smooth and pretty! Given that Petoskey has a population of under 6,000 (although they do attract the tourists!), it would be kind of cool for McLean &amp; Eakin to win. The real question: How many Open Letter books do they have already? I think they better stock up. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prairielightsbooks.com\/\">Prairie Lights Books<\/a> (Iowa City, Iowa)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Prairie Lights is pretty much the only thing that people from the University of Iowa talk about. I&#8217;m pretty sure Iowa City consists of a river, this bookstore, and a bunch of mediocre football players. (GO <span class=\"caps\">MICHIGAN<\/span> <span class=\"caps\">STATE<\/span>!) It&#8217;s almost unfair that this city gets such a fantastic bookstore. Paul Ingram is wonderful to talk to (and my height, which is always a bonus), and this store is the quintessential charming small-town bookstore. They very well could win this. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.womenandchildrenfirst.com\/\">Women &amp; Children First<\/a> (Chicago, Illinois)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Women &amp; Children First is helping sell books at an upcoming Open Letter\/Black Balloon event celebrating Bulgarian literature&#8212;for that alone, they&#8217;re probably going to receive this award. But seriously, this is a great store that does what it does better than any store in the country, and has succeeded for years. When I was working for Dalkey, one of my favorite buyers to visit was at <span class=\"caps\">WCF<\/span> . . . She&#8217;s since left the store, but I&#8217;ll forever respect the hell out of this place. <\/p>\n<p>The winning store will be announced by <em>PW<\/em> just before <span class=\"caps\">BEA<\/span>, and will be featured in the pre-<span class=\"caps\">BEA<\/span> issue. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was probably asleep at the wheel in years past, but I think it&#8217;s really cool that Publishers Weekly announced the names of the five finalists for 2014 Bookstore of the Year. Here&#8217;s the list of the finalists with some commentary on why they should win: The Elliott Bay Book Company (Seattle, Washington) Do you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[55276,3146,55306,55286,55296],"class_list":["post-296746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-elliot-bay-book-company","tag-green-apple-books","tag-mclean-eakin-booksellers","tag-prairie-lights-books","tag-women-children-first"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338456,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296746\/revisions\/338456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}