So, We Bought a Book Shop
By Shawn Smucker
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Episodes: 49
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Two writers buy a small-town, local book shop in Lancaster, PA, called Nooks and discover a beautiful community of readers all around them. These are conversations with and about the writers, readers, and books that make the world a better place.
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049 Regarding Viral Posts, an Antidote for AI, and the Resistance
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Jun 15, 2026 |
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048 How to Fit Creativity Into Your Busy Life
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May 26, 2026 |
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047 What We See in So Many of Our Favorite Books
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May 12, 2026 |
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046 What is it About Human-Made Beauty? (And Why AI Misses the Mark)
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May 06, 2026 |
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045 A Trip Overseas and the Fear that Comes With Success
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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044 What's Missing?
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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043 On Being Misunderstood as a Bookshop
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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042 New Challenges
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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041 How This Bookshop is Breaking Us Open
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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040 We Expanded! We Doubled Our Size! We're Exhausted!
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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039 An Exciting Announcement - Expansion!
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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038 A Book Written in One Sentence
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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037 How Books Connect Us to the Ones We've Lost
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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036 A Movie That Had Shawn Sobbing (And How Physical Spaces Nourish Us)
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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035 Rest, Wintering, and the Saying "This is Happiness"
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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034 It Finally Happened!
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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033 How These Booksellers Choose the Books We'll Read in 2026
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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032 Author Winnie Li on the Great American Road Trip
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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031 Ten Books From 2025 We Loved (Even Though Maile Hates Top 10 Lists)
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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030 The Monsters Among Us
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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029 Kaitlin Curtice is Enjoying the Seasons of Life
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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028 When Another Bookshop Opens Up Down the Street
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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027 Sara Billups On Anxiety, Caring for Parents, and Holy Indifference
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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026 The Books That Have Made Up Our Lives
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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025 Laura Tremaine Thinks You Should Read Horror
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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024 Five of Us Debate Our "Family Favorites" Book Shelf
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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023 A Son of the Bookshop
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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022 Evan Friss, Being Human, and The Bookshop
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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021 Jeff Chu, Compost, and His New Book Good Soil
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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020 Married With Children...and a Book Shop
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May 30, 2025 |
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019 "Good Gracious, We Have it Stacked Against Us"
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May 26, 2025 |
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018 When Water Comes Through the Ceiling
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May 14, 2025 |
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017 What We Learned In Our First Year
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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016 "If You Don't Do This," He Said, "Your Book Shop Will Fail"
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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015 Designing a Life of Courage at East Otis
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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014 Amy King Picks the Lock
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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013 Lore Wilbert Thinks She's a Scaredy-Cat
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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012 On Staring Down Our Book Shop Mortality
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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011 Bears Versus Men, Being Alone in the Store, and Vulnerability in Fiction
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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010 Ned Bustard and the Artist's Path of Courage, Creativity, and Rest
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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009 When Returning to the Dream is Tough (and the Death of Shawn's Books)
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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008 Regarding Competition, Banned Books, and What We're Taking Along
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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007 Time is Money...Until It Isn't
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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006 The Question We're Asked More Than Any Other
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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005 What It's Like to be a Writer Selling Other People's Stories
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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004 Our Fears About Owning a Book Shop, and Finding Hope
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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003 Is All Reading Beneficial?
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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002 How a Book Ends Up in Our Shop
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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001 So . . . We Bought a Book Shop
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Jan 07, 2025 |