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Astoria Characters: The Veteran Bookseller

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York

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Nancy Ruhling

There's no bookstore in the Ditmars section of Astoria. We don't need one. Harry puts the words out on the street -- his bookstand has been in the same spot for nearly a quarter century.

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What Women Publish: How Miss Pettigrew Came to Live Another Day

Chauncey Zalkin | Posted 11.20.2009 | Books

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Chauncey Zalkin

Here are outtakes from my conversation with the smart and funny-as-hell woman who started and runs Persephone Books. Without her, Miss Pettigrew would literally not have lived to see another day.

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Small Publisher Hits It Big

Elaine Petrocelli | Posted 10.08.2009 | Books

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Elaine Petrocelli

When our head buyer, Sheryl Cotleur, told me she had fallen in love with a novel, I was amazed that it came from a press that's connected to a hospital that makes most of us think of mental illness.

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