Interview with a Bookstore: The Last Bookstore

Which books would you like to find in the last bookstore on a post-apocalyptic earth? This was the premise behind the birth of The Last Bookstore in California

Interview with a Bookstore from Literary Hub is part of the Guardian Books Network

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Before LA’s the Last Bookstore opened its first brick-and-mortar store in December 2009, the staff sold used books online, out of owners Josh and Heidi Spencer’s home. In June 2011, the team moved to their current location in a former bank building. The goal was to create a bookstore that would contain a collection of what Josh would want to find in “the last bookstore on earth.”

Here, its booksellers talk to Literary Hub about the store’s past and present, and about great books.

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