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| Kelly Link and Gavin Grant | |
"Independent bookstores can function as third spaces. They connect readers from their local communities with books, writers, and creative and political projects. They reflect the tastes and interests of that community. The Pioneer Valley is already rich in notable bookstores. Gavin and I have an interest in science fiction and fantasy, as well as work in translation, poetry, and children's literature. We'll build up those sections and, along the way, figure out what Easthampton readers want in a bookstore. My personal goal is to handsell as many copies of Molly Gloss's The Hearts of Horses and Robert Jackson Bennett's City of Stairs as possible."
--Author Kelly Link in a q&a with Poets & Writers about Book Moon, the bookstore she and husband Gavin J. Grant (also owners of Small Beer Press) opened this fall in Easthampton, Mass.