Name: Steven Salardino Bookstore: Skylight Books Title: Manager Brief Bio: Southern California boy, junior high school heavy metal kid turned long hair punk. Educated by Doonesbury comics, Steve Martin LPs, and Woody Allen movies. Skateboarding to the used bookstores where discoveries of Kerouac, Brautigan, Nabokov, and The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers inspired and brought the hunger. A BA inContinue reading

Emma Straub is a native New Yorker. Her debut collection of short stories, Other People We Married, will be published by FiveChapters Books in February. She works at BookCourt, one of Brooklyn’s finest independent bookstores, and will smile at you so hard that you have to look away. She also likes to bake cookies, tweet,Continue reading