Fisher the Bookseller
FisherBook reviews, bookseller musings, and unsolicited advice
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A day in the life of a book buyer
This is a diaristic account of a single day buying books for my job. If you want to know more details about my book buying job, check out my post Who decides what goes on bookstore shelves or my interview with Lincoln Michel.
7:15AM
I wak...
My Favorite Bookseller Recommendation Moments of 2025
I fully planned on letting 2025 go by without marking it in any particular way. Not because I don’t like end-of-year posts, especially in their consumable list-friendly style. I love a list: a best books list, a bad review round-up list, a...
Book Pairings
There are a lot of gift guides floating around right now–to which I say, go ahead, get that bag—if you have affiliate links that is—but I have a lot of ambivalence about gift guides. I work in a bookstore because I like books, not because I...
Where are the crickets???
I had about ten ideas I tried to write this week and none of them wanted to be born yet, so instead I will share this bookstore anecdote that I think about probably once a week since it happened.
A few years ago, back in 2022, I wa...
Raised by wolves
I only ever stole one thing besides food and it was a book. It was 2007. I was 24, and in a Master’s degree program, so old enough and presumably intelligent enough to know better.
Except I didn’t.
In the two years leading up to this mom...
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Frontlist buyer for an established independent bookstore
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