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“To the multitudes of gratitudes I hold for Midwestern booksellers, I add another – and this time for their stories. These are essays that weave the Midwest we know with the Midwest we never suspected.” – Mike Perry
The Great Lakes Reader is a collection of essays by booksellers and librarians from our region. It also includes a list of the independent bookstores in our states. Here’s the list of contributors:
Life on a Wisconsin Lake, by Margie Petersen White, The Bookstore, Glen Ellyn, IL
Wisconsin’s Many Sides, by Kirk Farber, librarian now in CO
Hunt for Illinois, by Josh K. Stevens, Read Between the Lynes, Woodstock, IL
Chicago: Big City Blinkin,' by Elizabeth Bidwell Goetz, part time at Seminary in Chicago
Contrary Indiana, by Randy Smith, Destinations, New Albany, IN
Indiana Basketball Jones, by Terry Whittaker, Viewpoint, IN
Michigan Left, by Justin Wadland, librarian now in WA
Tough Enough Michigan, by Bill Cusumano, Nicola’s, Ann Arbor
Small Town, Big Heart Ohio, by Liz Murphy, Learned Owl, Hudson, OH
Ohio Nights, by Deb Covey, Joseph Beth
Oh My, My O-hi-O, by Richard Hunt, Clerisy Press/formerly @ Classic Bookshop, Cleveland
It deserves a place on your regional table. |
