We — editors, writers, teachers, publishers — need to do whatever we can to enliven readers, to help create communities for them if we want to contin… - Heidi Pitlor

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We — editors, writers, teachers, publishers — need to do whatever we can to enliven readers, to help create communities for them if we want to continue to have readers at all. Our independent bookstores are the front lines, and many booksellers are fighting the good fight. Here, books stimulate conversation. Conversation stimulates a sense of community. Listening happens. Thinking. The exchange of thoughts.