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"Books saved my life," said author Luis J. Rodriguez in a recent interview. The 47-year-old author is a former Los Angeles gang member whose love and talent for poetry and prose convinced a judge to give Rodriguez a crucial break 26 years ago when he placed him, not back in prison, but on the road to a writer's life.
Eventually a newspaper job took Rodriguez to Chicago. There, he started his own poetry publishing house and wrote the award-winning 1994 memoir, Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. (Touchstone Books).
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 Last spring, out of the masses of books energetically offered at BookExpo America 2001, Jim Harris, owner of Prairie Lights Books in Iowa City, Iowa, found himself compelled to pick up and read an advance copy of The Last Summer of Reason by Tahar Djaout (Ruminator), he recently told BTW.
 After 12 years -- and two expansions -- the Okemos, Michigan, location of Schuler Books and Music has a new home. At 24,000 square feet, the new space (in the Greater Lansing area) is a good deal closer in size to the 20-year-old Grand Rapids Schuler Books and Music, which is 35,000 square feet.
Welcome to the first issue of the new Bookselling This Week e-mail edition. BTW is now a redesigned, online information resource for independent booksellers, available free to the book industry. We've begun this week with our expanded coverage of bookselling and publishing, with more frequent updates throughout the week of news about independent bookselling, books, authors, important free expression issues, and much more.
The January white box is being mailed to stores with Book Sense beginning next week. Among the goodies, booksellers will find inside:
January 11 -- Teen Readers 76 'Top Ten' 76
January 25 -- March/April Book Sense 76
February 8 -- Poetry Book Sense 'Top Ten' 76
February 8 -- SF/Fantasy Book Sense 'Top Ten' 76
February 8 -- Art/Design/Photo Book Sense 'Top Ten' 76
March 22 -- May/June Book Sense 76
March 29 -- Children's Spring Book Sense 76
March 29 -- Teen Book Sense 'Top Ten' 76
April 12 -- Audiobooks Book Sense 'Top Ten' 76
April 12 -- Juneteenth/African-American Book Sense 'Top Ten' 76
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