I’m not a big fan of Garrison Keiller but in Sunday’s Times interview he discloses he has opened a bookstore in St. Paul because the neighborhood bookstore had closed. I’ll give him points for that. Also the collection contains some oddball stuff that makes it sound like a fun place to browse: hymnals, phrase books, bad poetry, novels about heroic collies, commentaries on scripture.
He says the best part of being a bookstore owner is the employees are “really, really nice to you.”