LA Librería, a Spanish-language children's bookstore in Los Angeles, Calif., opened over the weekend in its new location, USC Annenberg Media reported.

LA Librería owners Chiara Arroyo and Celene Navarrete in their new space.

Located at 4572 ½ West Adams Blvd,, the new space is roughly double the size of the bookstore's previous home and includes a storefront, event space, and warehouse/storage space. Owners and co-founders Chiara Arroyo and Celene Navarrete carry Spanish-language titles for children up to 15 years old sourced from a variety of Spanish-speaking countries.

"We see a need for this type of resource, and not only for families who speak Spanish, but also for the communities who value bilingual education--that see the benefits of raising their kids bilingual," Navarrete told USC Annenberg Media.

The pair founded LA Librería as an online store in 2012, spurred by a dearth of high-quality, Spanish-language children's books. After operating out of their homes for a time, Arroyo and Navarrete moved to a warehouse in L.A.'s West Adams neighborhood. In 2015, they opened a conventional storefront, and they've held many school book fairs and community festivals.

Cloud & Leaf Bookstore in Manzanita, Ore., has closed this week in preparation for a move to a new, larger location.

Tomorrow, the bookstore will begin moving from its current home at 148 Laneda Ave. to its new space at 447 Laneda Ave. with the help of a book brigade. Starting at 1 p.m., a chain of customers and staff will pass the first 100 books from the old space to the new one. Original owner Jody Swanson will start the chain, while current owner Holly Lorincz will be waiting at the new location.

The book brigade will also function as a fundraiser to help with moving and build-out costs, including multiple new bookcases, slatwall paneling, seating, storage shelving, and more. For $10, community members can take part in the brigade and choose a book among the 100 to be moved on Saturday.

The bookstore will be bringing the rest of its inventory, along with its existing bookcases, fixtures, and lights, to the new space gradually over the coming weeks.

In the new space, Lorincz and her team will be able to stock more books, expand Cloud & Leaf's children's section, add more sidelines such as greeting cards and art supplies, and have more space for events.

Lorincz purchased the store from previous owner Deborah Reed in 2022. In 2019, Reed bought the store from Swanson. Prior to taking over the bookstore, Lorincz worked as a literary agent and writer.

Monkey Wrench Books hosted its grand opening last weekend at 214 High St. in Morgantown, W.Va. Owner Lindsey Jacobs told 12 News that while there is still some work to be done around the store, she is excited to begin building a local community of readers as well as activists.

"This is going to be such an amazing community space and such a huge opportunity to build [a] community around books and around activism and around coffee," Jacobs said. "It's gonna be a really great space for us to gather and talk and grow."

During the summer, she had told the Daily Athenaeum, "I wanted to create a community space around books, which I love. But also a place where we can organize and challenge each other, and perform mutual aid. Every community needs an independent bookstore. I'm super excited to get the bookstore part open, but I'm even more excited about the opportunity to build community using the bookstore." 

The store's name was inspired in part by Edward Abbey's 1975 novel The Monkey Wrench Gang. In a July Facebook post, Jacobs wrote, in part: "Reading the Monkey Wrench Gang changed my life. It helped me put words to a feeling I'd had since I was little that revered beauty, distrusted authority, and found legal and illegal too rigid a framework, particularly as applied to poor and oppressed people. For a while, I worshipped Ed Abbey, the novel's writer, too."
 
"I still read the MWG every year (along with Richard Adams' Watership Down), but through the eyes of someone who recognizes that 'Cactus Ed' was and died a racist and a misogynist.... That's one of the many beautiful things about books: they tell us who we were, who we are, and, importantly, who we could be. So Yes! to monkey wrenching, to mutual aid, to fighting for each other and the Earth, and an ardent No! to White Supremacy, individualism, and the patriarchy."

Two new positions have been created in Simon & Schuster corporate marketing that "will allow us to excel and accelerate our growth, while leveraging and supporting the great work the Corporate Marketing Team has been delivering," Wibke Grutjen, senior v-p, global chief marketing and communications officer, wrote in a memo to staff.

Brandon Grant-Walker is joining the company as v-p, content marketing and brand development, effective October 21. He has 17 years of experience in media, publishing, and entertainment, including executive leadership roles at The Moth and Pride Media. He was most recently lead marketing executive for The Moth, where "his creativity and leadership delivered impressive, tangible results: three of their latest books reached the New York Times Bestsellers list; The Moth Podcast achieved 90 million downloads in 2023; and The Moth's first-ever card deck, A Game of Storytelling, debuted on Amazon's bestsellers list."

At S&S, Grant-Walker will lead the development of marketing content that "captures the imagination of our readers and motivates them to engage, share, and buy. Brandon will lead our corporate social media strategy and oversee our website and email marketing content, video production, events, and brand design."

Matteo Costa is joining S&S as v-p, marketing strategy and operations, effective October 14. He was most recently v-p of marketing development & operations at Penguin Random House. He began his career in consulting at Accenture and joined Bertelsmann through its flagship MBA rotational program, working at a range of Bertelsmann companies: Bertelsmann corporate, BMG, Dorling Kindersley, and PRH.

Costa will be in charge of "improving Simon & Schuster's marketing technology and workflows and developing a robust analytics framework to measure and optimize our marketing performance. From this new vantage point, Matteo will oversee advertising, promotional assets development, the growth of our consumer database and email marketing capabilities, as well as metadata and copywriting. He will also ensure that the work of the central team seamlessly connects with the title and author campaigns spearheaded by the imprints. Matteo will be a thought leader in incorporating AI and other new technologies into our marketing processes, and he will also focus on expanding our revenue-driving backlist and e-commerce programs."

In other changes, Imani Seymour will move from Atria to corporate marketing and become part of a new central team leading corporate social media channels and multicultural marketing strategy, under Grant-Walker's guidance.

Sienna Farris is leaving S&S to pursue other opportunities. Grutjen thanked her for "all the contributions she has made to Simon & Schuster during her tenure."

Nicholas Byam Shaw, former Macmillan Publishers CEO and chairman who served on Holtzbrinck's executive and supervisory boards from 1995 for more than a decade, died September 25. He was 90. Pan Macmillan noted that as a visionary leader of the company for more than 30 years, he "transformed Macmillan into a global force, expanding its reach and influence. His many contributions to Nature Publishing Group, Macmillan Education, St. Martin's Press, Pan Macmillan and Picador, to name a few, remain testament to his enduring legacy."

Credit: The Macmillan Archive, Basingstoke UK

Byam Shaw joined Macmillan in 1964 as a sales manager, having previously worked at Collins for eight years. He was appointed deputy managing director of the U.K. trade companies in 1967 before becoming managing director from 1969 until 1990. He later became chairman from 1990 until 1998 and also served as chair of imprints Pan and St. Martin's Press, before retiring in 1999.

In a tribute, Holtzbrinck Publishing Group CEO Stefan von Holtzbrinck recalled that after having fought in the Korean War with the Royal Navy, Byam Shaw "started off with the publisher Collins, selling books by bus to bookshops around Glasgow and on the underground. He joined Macmillan in 1964 as an international sales executive. Despite being largely unprepared, he was sent to some of the most remote parts of the world, where he quickly gained a deep understanding of the complexities of international publishing. When he became Harold Macmillan's right-hand man, Macmillan was facing a difficult economic period, having rested on past glories. Yet, despite these challenges, Nicky not only adapted but thrived, laying the foundation for his eventual rise to the top of the company. He guided Macmillan through a period of international expansion while maintaining the company's integrity and core values.... His ability to recognize and seize opportunities was remarkable, though he always acted with integrity--understanding where potential lay without ever being opportunistic."

In 1995, Byam Shaw made the decision to sell Macmillan to Holtzbrinck. "He transformed our group, we feel to this day the trust he placed in us and the great responsibility that comes with it," von Holtzbrinck said. "Nicky's strength as a leader went far beyond his strategic decisions; he was an exceptional mentor. Personally, I owe much of my career to his guidance, which shaped not only my professional path but also my way of thinking. He had a remarkable ability to inspire and nurture talent, leaving a profound impact on those who worked with him....

"Nicky will be remembered as a rare leader who blended a deep intellectual curiosity with sharp business insight. His leadership at Macmillan was not just about financial success but about fostering a culture of excellence and human connection, one that continues to define the company today. Macmillan's reputation for quality and innovation stands as a testament to his vision. As someone who had the privilege of learning from him, I can personally attest to the profound impact he had on my career and on countless others. His legacy in the publishing world remains a lasting influence, and he will be deeply missed."

Past Macmillan director Adrian Soar, who is now group commercial director for Nosy Crow, worked with Byam Shaw for three decades. "The formal records of a great publisher's life tend to leave out the human side of things. Nicky was very much a human--one of towering achievements," he said. "He didn't always get it right, but was swift to take action when he got it wrong. Nicky could be terrifying, but even if you were terrified, you respected and sometimes loved him--his enthusiasm, his determination and his love for life. "

Shelf Awareness for Readers, our weekly consumer-facing publication featuring adult and children's book reviews, author interviews, backlist recommendations, and fun news items, is being published today. Starred review highlights include The Ogre's Daughter by Catherine Bardon, a "deft" and "searing" imagining of how a ruthless dictator's daughter might have lived; Tasmania by Paolo Giordano, a study of a journalist working on a book about the atomic bomb; Scaffolding by Lauren Elkin, which considers "the darker sides of human nature" with "narrative boldness."; and Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell, a middle-grade fantasy series about a land of mythical creatures and the children charged with saving the source of its magic. In The Writers' Life, Tony Tulathimutte, recently longlisted for this year's National Book Award, handles rejection with panache and remarks on how his new collection of linked short stories developed from "a kind of centaur" of combined writing forms into what it is today: a svelte work of both humor and seriousness. Plus, rediscover the late Tom Spanbauer, author of The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon.

Today's issue of Shelf Awareness for Readers is going to 635,000 customers of more than 250 independent bookstores. Stores interested in learning more can contact our partnership program team via e-mail. To see today's issue, click here.

The distribution partnership between the two venerable houses W.W. Norton and Harvard University Press launched on October 1. Here Norton employees Shayna Lisowski (l.) and Mia Caramanno (r.) box up copies of The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America by Sarah Lewis and Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, and Mark A. McDaniel.

The two most popular books in September at Reading Group Choices were A Place to Hide by Ronald H. Balson (St. Martin's Press) and The Last Whaler by Cynthia Reeves (Regal House).

"The other night I had to leave late, and looking at the shop in the dark with the windows lit so prettily made my heart swell. I love this little store so much," Alibi Bookshop, Vallejo, Calif., posted on Instagram. "Thank you so much, and thank you for all your support. We love our community!"

Carolyn O'Keefe has been promoted to director of publicity, nonfiction, at Holt.

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Madeleine Brown, formerly assistant marketing manager at Sourcebooks, has joined Kensington Publishing as communications manager.

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Jamie Tan, formerly marketing manager at Candlewick Press, Holiday House, and Peachtree Publishing, is leaving the company. She can be reached at jamiectan@gmail.com.

Mapping the Holy Land: An Illustrated Atlas by Neal Asbury and Jean-Pierre Isbouts (Apollo Publishers).

Blake Draper (Prom Pact, Clickbait) will star as the sole actor in A. Rimbaud, a film about French poet Arthur Rimbaud. Variety reported that the project, which recently wrapped production in Winnipeg, "follows the writer from his schoolboy days in Charleville to his final years in Africa. As Rimbaud explored and broke with traditional forms of poetry, the movie likewise escapes the confines of a biopic."

Writer-director Patrick Wang (In the Family, A Bread Factory), who has published translations of renowned poets Ivan Bunin, Georg Trakl, and Julian Tuwim, said, "The only way to keep up with Rimbaud is to be as playful and as inventive as Rimbaud. We have the team of rogues ready to do this. At the center of it all is a young actor who is lightning in a bottle."

The film will be produced by Wang, Daryl Freimark of Hardball Entertainment and Fritzi Adelman and Evan Johnson of Thin Stuff Productions. Draper, Victoria Sidebotham, Frank Barrera, Amy Williams, Michael Bevins, Galen Johnson, and Kyle Bornais will serve as executive producers.

"Creating its own language and visual looks, I can't wait for the world to see what comes from the mind of Patrick Wang and this amazing team of creatives," Freimark said. "Blake Draper brings an insatiable work ethic and bottomless talent in his astounding performance as Arthur Rimbaud."

The shortlist has been selected for the £10,000 (about $13,115) 2024 Goldsmiths Prize, awarded to a book that is "deemed genuinely novel and which embodies the spirit of invention that characterises the genre at its best." The winner will be announced November 6.

The shortlist:
All My Precious Madness by Mark Bowles
Tell by Jonathan Buckley
Parade by Rachel Cusk
Choice by Neel Mukherjee
Spent Light by Lara Pawson
Portraits at the Palace of Creativity and Wrecking by Han Smith

photo: Ian Byers-Gamber

Johanna Hedva is a Korean American writer, artist, and musician who was raised in Los Angeles by a family of witches and now lives in L.A. and Berlin. They are the author of the novels Your Love Is Not Good and On Hell, as well as Minerva the Miscarriage of the Brain, which collects a decade of work in poetry, plays, performances, and essays. Their artwork has been shown internationally, and their albums are Black Moon Lilith in Pisces in the 4th House and The Sun and the Moon. Most recently, Hedva is the author of the essay collection How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom (Hillman Grad, September 24, 2024), which aims to detonate a bomb in our collective understanding of care and illness, showing us that sickness is a part of life.

Handsell readers your book in 25 words or less:

I wanted to tell all the many possible stories that are enlivened not despite illness and disability, but because of it.

On your nightstand now: 

With Bloom Upon Them and Also with Blood by Justin Phillip Reed is probably the best thing I read last year and which, several times a week, I keep needle-dropping into just to be reminded of how cool it is. I'm reading The Plague by Jacqueline Rose; the chapter on Simone Weil is fire. It's making me reread Weil, particularly her collection Waiting for God. I'm reading this alongside Jacqueline Rose's earlier collection On Not Being Able to Sleep.

I just started The Long Loneliness, Dorothy Day's memoir, because I think my next book will be about terrorists who think of their acts of civil disobedience as "divine obedience," so I'm in the cute research phase. Also dipping into Joy Williams's Ninety-Nine Stories of God for that vibe. I recently finished Daddy Boy by Emerson Whitney and Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq--adored both. Y/N by Esther Yi was another recent standout. I got halfway into Notice by Heather Lewis but need a little break--I'm a bit heartbroken and ran through these days, so I love this book but it's also giving trauma that my devastated guts can't totally bear in one go. Oh, and I just blitzed through two novels: Little Rot, the new Akwaeke Emezi, which I really appreciate for its depravity; and Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa, which took my whole-ass mind away from me in a shit-hot explosion that I am grateful to have been eviscerated by.

Favorite book when you were a child:

In my early 20s, I reread The Wall by Marlen Haushofer every year for five years. This was before it had been reissued, and very few people knew about it. It came to me because I was at a very grown-up party and chatting with a poet and her partner, a translator. The poet was in her 40s and dressed in burgundy and purple. The translator had written a Ph.D. on the last paragraph of On the Road. These kinds of people. They were telling me I had to read this novel called Die Wand (in German), The Wall in English, but then they got in a fight about how much or little to tell me about it. One of them wanted to tell me about it, and the other was adamant that I should know nothing. They reached a compromise: the poet told me it was "unspeakably beautiful," and the translator told me it was "about animals." I often give this book as a gift. I gave it as a birthday gift to the woman who would later break my heart. She told me she couldn't get through the first five pages; I should have known she'd break me.

Your top five authors:

Clarice Lispector, Yoko Tawada, Kim Hyesoon, Simone Weil, and Sylvia Wynter.

Book you've faked reading:

All the "best novels" written by white men.

Book you're an evangelist for:

Darkly: Black History and America's Gothic Soul by Leila Taylor is my favorite example of a book that imbricates cultural, social, and political criticism with memoir and autobiography. The insights in it are worth the cost of the earth.

Book you've bought for the cover:

The 1972 Touchstone edition of The History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell with the Jason Fulford photograph. Just a lonely-ass road leading nowhere.

Book you hid from your parents:

Going Down with Janis by Peggy Caserta, which is a grimy memoir by Janis Joplin's lover. One of the books I read as a teenager that made me gay. I remember the first line was something like, I was stoned out of my mind on heroin and Janis was giving me head, and I had never heard a woman say "head" about another woman, and in my mind I could see their sleazy hotel room, and how they broke each other's hearts, and I knew what that scene smelled like, and I was like, ohhhhhh I'm gay.

Book that changed your life:

Where Europe Begins by Yoko Tawada was my first encounter with Tawada and it made me unknow everything I knew about plot, story, sentence. It's a touchstone; I return to it all the time and have for years. It also brought me to other writers who do similar magic: Mariana Enríquez, Bora Chung, Cristina Rivera Garza. I'd also add The Door by Magda Szabó to this. 

Favorite line from a book:

How cruel to make me choose one! I'll be basic and go with the line that changed every queer I know, including me, from Robert Glück's Margery Kempe: "Gender is the extent we go to in order to be loved."

Five books you'll never part with:

Okay, I am envisioning this question's premise is that I'm shot into space on a one-way mission toward a black hole, and I will need to bring books on the ship to provide spiritual relief as I hurtle toward my ultimate end. Bleak! 

I'll cheat and bring all three volumes--in one boxed set!--of the Library of America's The James Baldwin Collection, for a last feeling of purpose.

Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death, compiled by Yoel Hoffman, for a last breath of peace.

The Mirror of Simple Souls by Marguerite Porete, for a last flash of beauty.

Not a book, but if I'm flying toward the terminal eclipsing of my very self, I must have access to Prince's 2007 halftime show. That's the last thing I want to see, hear, and know before the end, because, to quote Frida Kahlo's last words: "I hope the exit is joyful and I hope never to return."

Book you most want to read again for the first time:

The Limit by Rosalind Belben, one of the funniest and most grotesque accounts of illness I've ever read, and also one of the most smutty. And--not a book but a long essay that absconded with the top of my head: "Blackness and Nothingness (Mysticism in the Flesh)" by Fred Moten.

Books I've bought for the author photo alone:

In a used bookstore in New Orleans, I bought an old hardcover collection of Truman Capote's nonfiction, The Dogs Bark, because in the author photo Capote has a raven on his shoulder, and the motherfucking caption says, "The author with Lola." Oh. My. God. There's even an essay in the book about how he came to have a pet raven named Lola, and it's one of my favorite pieces of writing ever. 

I rarely read cis-male authors, but I have an armchair theory that if one of them is photographed with an animal sitting on his person in his author photo, then he's exempt from the category of male author. Tarjei Vesaas, for example, has a large cat coiled around his shoulders and neck; The Ice Palace is one of the greatest feminist novels of all time, and I think the choice to include the cat in the author photo has something to do with that.

Beth Kander's I Made It Out of Clay is a lovely, absorbing novel of grief, dark humor, and love and friendship, with a dash of magic.

In contemporary urban Chicago, as the holiday season approaches, Eve is struggling: she's about to turn 40 years old, and she's nowhere near done grieving her beloved father, who died just over a year ago. Eve and her father always loved Christmas--a guilty pleasure in their Jewish family not shared by the surviving members. Layoffs are threatened at work, her best friend has been distant, she's had some disturbing encounters on the train recently, and she's begun hallucinating her dearly departed grandmother, a Holocaust survivor who seems to be trying to warn Eve of something. Eve is not close to her mother (overbearing) or her younger sister Rosie (overly perfect), who's scheduled her wedding for Eve's 40th birthday weekend. Eve has (foolishly) promised to bring a plus one to Rosie's wedding, but she's so far failed to find a date. Unfortunately, her neighbor crush doesn't seem to get her jokes or her cringeworthy attempts at flirtation.

In desperation, late at night and rather drunk, Eve recalls a story told by her grandmother, ventures into the dank corners of her apartment's basement, and builds herself a golem out of foundation clay. A golem serves as protector and companion in Jewish tradition, and she feels in dire need of both. The next morning, a hungover Eve wakes up to find a handsome (and very naked) man in her apartment. She is horrified, in disbelief, attracted to him, and a little disgusted with herself. Is Eve's golem a figment of her imagination? A monstrosity? Or the answer to her fondest wishes? Heading into Rosie's wedding, all of Eve's crises--work, friendships, the absence of romance, family strife, civil unrest in the wider world--crash and crescendo together. A golem is either the best or worst idea she's ever had.

I Made It Out of Clay is a charming rework of a traditional tale. Frequently grim, it explores some of the darker elements of modern life: depression, loneliness, grief, bigotry. But it's also sweet and very funny, especially in the moments when Eve lets her friends and, eventually, family into her life, and finds that they may have some of their own struggles. Kander gifts her readers with a novel that is often serious and sad, but ultimately uplifting, as Eve learns, "This isn't the end of anything. It's just one more beginning, like every damn day can be if we just let it." --Julia Kastner, blogger at pagesofjulia

Shelf Talker: As Eve's life devolves into crisis, she creates a golem to solve it all, in this lovely, absorbing novel of grief, dark humor, and love and friendship, with a dash of magic.

I can add something to what he has said because coffee is a great power in my life; I have observed its effects on an epic scale. Coffee roasts your insides. Many people claim coffee inspires them; but as everybody likewise knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring. Think about it: although more grocery stores are staying open in Paris until midnight, few writers are actually becoming more spiritual. 

--Honoré de Balzac, in his essay "The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee"

Agreeing to disagree, I still think Balzac, "sometimes imbibing up to 50 cups of coffee a day, carefully husbanding his binges, knowing just when to pull back from the edge in order to prolong his vice," may be the literary patron saint of National Coffee Day (September 29). 

Only the proverbial "book smell," which customers so often cite as a bookshop lure, can rival the seductive aroma of coffee. Schuler Books, which operates four stores in Michigan, describes coffee as "of one of the world's most popular reading beverages, rightfully so. Us book lovers need something to keep us awake for those late night reading sessions! Whether you like your coffee hot or cold, light roast or dark roast; make sure to treat yourself today. Try making one of your favorite cafe drinks at home or stop by our cafe, grab a yummy drink, and enjoy a good book!"

Midtown Reader, Tallahassee, Fla., agreed: "It's our favorite day of the year--National Coffee Day. Come celebrate with us at the Piebrary! Whether you're a latte lover, a cappuccino connoisseur, or a cold brew enthusiast, we've got something special brewing just for you. What tasty treat will you try today?"

Like Balzac, indie booksellers take their coffee seriously. Stacks Book Club, Oro Valley, Ariz., called National Coffee Day "the perfect excuse to stop by Stacks--as if you needed one. We proudly serve Yellow Brick Coffee. Yellow Brick was founded in Southern Arizona in 2011 and is a woman-owned and family operated single origin, specialty coffee roaster. We explored all avenues when choosing a coffee provider, and in the end fell in love with the deep flavors and smooth finish of Yellow Brick's various roasts. We love knowing that the beans we grind and brew are traceable and roasted with the highest quality standards."

Read Between the Lynes, Woodstock, Ill., noted: "In our shop, you'll find many coffee options. Beans to take home--whole or ground. We carry both @uvcoffee.roasters and @doorcountycoffee. We brew up pots of coffee to have at the ready for you--including special, seasonal options. And if an espresso drink is more to your taste, we'd be happy to make you an Americano, cappuccino, or latte. We just launched our October specialty drinks! Can we interest you in an autumn spice latte or a butterbeer latte?"

What goes better with coffee than a good book? Square Books, Oxford, Miss., shared a java-inspired literary quotation: "Today is National Coffee Day!! Iced? Latté? Espresso? Cappuccino? Any way you have it, today we celebrate one of the world's most popular beverages. 'Don't stir all the warmth out of your coffee; drink it.'--Kate Chopin, The Awakening." 

The Green Dragon Bookshop, Fort Dodge, Iowa, offered some coffee-themed recommendations: "Hey readers--celebrate National Coffee Day with your favorite blend, a cozy spot to curl up in, and these stories to help warm your soul."

Scottish bookseller the Highland Bookshop, Fort William, noted that it was "brewing up something special with @wildcatcafefortwilliam, paired with the enchanting tale of Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi! Just as the characters in Before the Coffee Gets Cold explore the intricate tapestry of time and memory, Wild Cat Café serves up a delightful blend of sustainability and comfort in the heart of the Highlands."

And while you may not spot Balzac downing cup after cup at your local bookstore cafe, filmmakers Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman did imagine what that might have looked like in a short starring Paul Giamatti.

Capturing both the spirit of the season and National Coffee Day, the Bluestocking Bookshop, Holland, Mich., wrote: "The mornings are getting cooler, and the leaves are beginning to change, so our seasons are changing as well. We know we'll be seeing more of you after school or after work rather than during the day.... One thing that won't change, though... you can always get a warm drink at the bookshop while you browse. Coffee is on, water can be boiled, and you can browse with a mug of whatever helps you escape cold reality. We're always glad to see you."

Even if you show up late for National Coffee Day, a "cuppa joe" will be waiting for you, as Off the Beaten Path Bookstore, Steamboat Springs, Colo., promised: "We were sinfully under caffeinated and missed #NationalCoffeeDay on Sunday, but isn't every day coffee day? Or at least warm drink in a big mug held whilst contemplating the day ahead day? Anyway, we adore our @seedhousecoffee espresso and the @synessofactory espresso machine we use to make your drink as close to perfect as possible. Thank you all for caffeinating with us!"

The real secret to coffee-inspired bookselling success, however, was revealed by Serendipity Books, Chelsea, Mich.: "Ever wonder how we get so much done? This National Coffee Day we're sharing our secret. P.S. Bookseller juice is best enjoyed in one of our locally made Swallowtail Pottery mugs."