Lewis Buzbee, Doug Henderson and T. K. Rex discuss the craft of books, and why we still love bookstores, even after (especially after) working at them.

Lewis Buzbee’s most recent novel is Diver. He is also the author of The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop, Blackboard, After the Gold Rush, Fliegelman’s Desire, as well as three award-winning books for younger readers, Steinbeck’s Ghost, The Haunting of Charles Dickens, and Bridge of Time. His essays, poems, stories, and interviews have appeared in Lit Hub, Lit Stack, GQ, The New York Times Book Review, Paris Review, ZYZZYVA, Black Warrior Review, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. A former bookseller and publisher, he’s taught writing in the San Francisco Bay Area for a long time now.

Other stuff we talked about in the episode:

• Nadine Gordimer
• Dog Eared Books in San Francisco, California
• Green Apple Books in San Francisco, California
• Monterey Bay Aquarium
• Grotto Nights at the Library, May 27 (the panel that Doug and T. K. are going to be on in May at the San Francisco Public Library Main Branch, 6pm)
• Bookshop.org