Current Newsletter: You heard it from us first: Booksellers on the National Book Awards

Bookstores with reviews in this week's newsletter:

• Mia Kilpatrick, Hub City Bookshop in Spartanburg, South Carolina
• Anne Peck, Righton Books in St Simons Island, Georgia
• Stephanie Crowe, Page & Palette in Fairhope, Alabama
• Jackie Davison, The Lynx in Gainesville, Florida
• Jessica Nock, Main Street Books in Davidson, North Carolina
• Charlie Marks, Fountain Bookstore in Richmond, Virginia
• Heather Way, Angel Wings Bookstore in Stem, North Carolina
• Matt Nixon, A Cappella Books in Atlanta, Georgia
• Maya Shenoy, Epilogue Books Chocolate Brews in Chapel Hill, North Carolina 
• Kelley Barnes, Page 158 Books in Wake Forest, North Carolina
• Rachel Knox, Tombolo Books in St. Petersburg, Florida
• Kristen Iskandrian, Thank You Books in Birmingham, Alabama
• Mac Chamberlain, Parnassus Books in Nashville, Tennessee
• Monie Henderson, Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi
• Lana Repic, E. Shaver Bookseller in Savannah, Georgia
• Sol Johnson, Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh, North Carolina
• Susan Williams, M Judson Booksellers in Greenville, South Carolina
• Morgan DePerno, Bookmarks in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
• Rebecca Speas, One More Page Books in Arlington, Virginia

Book Buzz Feature: Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
Interestingly, the first voice that came to the page for me in this project was Margaret’s — the character who becomes entangled in Ivan’s life in the course of the book. It certainly wasn’t that I sat down thinking, I have to write a book where the male voice is central. I just felt my way through the story that seemed to emerge when I encountered these characters, which is what I always try to do. Of course I had moments of self-reflection and self-consciousness, because I was thinking, What do I know about this form of interiority and specifically — which is different from Connell in “Normal People” — relationships between men?

—Sally Rooney, Interview, The New York Times

Decide For Yourself Banned Book Feature:
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzie Lee
This Grand Tour was supposed to be Monty’s last big hurrah before adulthood, but it has quickly turned into an unmitigated disaster. Instead of partying and gambling through Europe in style with his (unfairly handsome) best friend Percy, Monty is stuck with a dour chaperone who’s forbidden him from doing anything fun, his unpleasantly bookish sister, and a growing rift between him and (the still handsome) Percy. And that is before the highwaymen attack, setting Mackenzie Lee’s delightful characters on a swashbuckling caper from the highways of France, through Barcelona’s darkened alleys, to the sparkling (and sinking) islands of Venice. A Room with a View meets The Goonies in waistcoats and cravats, The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice & Virtue is charming, witty, and heartfelt, and it’s bound to become an instant classic!
― Rebecca Speas, One More Page Books in Arlington, Virginia

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