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Bookstore Explorer

Bookstore Explorer

Written by: Matt Browning
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Join author and bookseller Matt Browning as he goes behind the shelves with booksellers, authors and other bookish folks to learn what makes independent bookshops such magical places.

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  • Episode 75: Woven Words Bookshop, Akron, Ohio

    Episode 75: Woven Words Bookshop, Akron, Ohio
    Jan 20 2026

    On this episode, I’m joined by Amy Ford and Lindsey Gartman, sisters who own Woven Words Bookshop, a book and craft shop in Akron, Ohio.

    Books We Talk About: Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson, The Correspondent by Virginia Evans, Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr, The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman, Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane, A Place Called Home by David Ambroz

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    53 mins
  • Episode 74: Book Bar, Palmyra, Pennsylvania

    Episode 74: Book Bar, Palmyra, Pennsylvania
    Jan 13 2026

    On this episode, I’m joined by Brittany Haynes, owner of Book Bar in Palmyra, Pennsylvania. Books We Talk About: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Remnants of a Scarlet Flame by Cindy L. Sell

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    42 mins
  • Episode 73: Bundok Books, Puyallup, Washington

    Episode 73: Bundok Books, Puyallup, Washington
    Jan 6 2026

    On this episode, we head to the Pacific Northwest to visit with Sascha and Gem Schaudies, owners of Bundok Books in Puyallup, Washington.

    Books We Talk About: Gender Swapped Fairy Tales by Karrie Fransman and Jonathan Plackett, Saints of Storm and Sorrow Gabriella Buba, Battle of the Butts Jocelyn Rish, The Last Gifts of the Universe by Riley August, The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley, The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert

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    48 mins
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