Name: John Peck Bookstore: Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland Title: Events Coordinator Brief Bio: I believe in good, old-fashioned pursuits: letterpress printing, good honest punk rock, magazines made out of paper, and post-ironic social media-friendly internet humor. What books recently rocked my world: I dove headfirst into all things videogame-related this year: Tom Bissell’s Extra Lives,Continue reading

Debra Linn is a Miami Beach native and former newspaper sports editor (17 years and lived to tell!) who found her way to Books & Books five years and four new stores ago.  A part-time bookselling job quickly became a full(est)-time Events & Marketing job with co-director Cristina Nosti (two Events & Marketing directors –Continue reading

The Triangle area of North Carolina—Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill—is famous for a lot of things:  stellar restaurants (three of which made Gourmet‘s most recent Top 50 Restaurants list), musicians (Ben Folds, Ryan Adams, Mitch Easter, James Taylor, The Connells, Squirrel Nut Zippers), authors (David Sedaris, Amy Sedaris, Lee Smith, Charles Frazier, Allan Gurganus, Kaye Gibbons,Continue reading