My Bookstore by Richard Russo & Emily St. John Mandel & Ronald Rice

Author:Richard Russo & Emily St. John Mandel & Ronald Rice
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hachette Books
Published: 2017-04-11T00:00:00+00:00

LESLEY KAGEN is a mother of two, an actress, a former restaurateur, accomplished equestrienne, and award-winning New York Times best-selling author of Whistling in the Dark, Land of a Hundred Wonders, Tomorrow River, and Good Graces. Visit her at lesleykagen.com.

Stephanie Kallos

Third Place Books, LAKE FOREST PARK, WASHINGTON

Defining Third Place

third place \ ‘thrd ‘plās \

1: a term coined by urban sociologist Ray Oldenburg; used in the concept of community building to refer to social surroundings separate from the two usual social environments of home (first place) and work (second place).<What suburbia cries for are the means for people to gather easily, inexpensively, regularly, and pleasurably—a place on the corner, real-life alternatives to television, easy escapes from the cabin fever of marriage and family life that do not necessitate getting into an automobile ~ Ray Oldenburg> 2: an open, light-filled public space offering a variety of food and drink, furnished with large sturdy tables that have been sliced from the massive trunks of salvaged Douglas firs, and employing a waitstaff that is completely unconcerned with rapid customer turnover 3: deluxe amenities of some third-place locales include bookstores, bowling lanes, live music and/or juke boxes, upright pianos, beanbag and/or barber chairs, community kiosks, photo booths, beer and wine licenses, wood-burning stoves, and giant chess sets 4: the monthly meeting venue for The Commoners, a five-person writing group to which you belonged for ten years, through marriages and divorces, house sales and purchases, the deaths of parents and dear friends, the births of children and grandchildren, job firings, unemployment, and job retrainings 5: the place where your writers’ group spends seven of those years critiquing every chapter of your first novel, Part One of your second novel, and half a dozen short stories—all this beginning in 1996, long before you even dared to dream that anything you wrote would actually be published 6: where, season after season, your writers’ group offers smart, insightful, and kindly voiced variations on one of two things that all writers need to hear in order to become better: (1) Keep going. Don’t give up. It’s wonderful. (2) Keep going. Don’t give up. It’s not good enough. 7: comments involving variations on <it’s not good enough> sting less because they are offered over lattes, herbal tea, and calorically generous pastries provided by Honey Bear Bakery 8: it is where you nurse your second baby on the first Saturday of the month from November 1997 through April 1998 while drinking decaf and nibbling disks of fruit panettone sprinkled with generous amounts of organic sugar and fennel <an aid to lactation> and listening to your writers’ group continue to critique your first novel—the one you began writing before this baby was even conceived, the one you won’t finish and finally publish until he is 7 years old and his older brother is 10 9: where your sons play with the giant chess set as soon as they are slightly taller than the rooks 10: in the fall of 2003, where you spend

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