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To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. The bookstore was a big part of my upbringing. Conyers, Georgia, was not a hotbed of literature or culture, but we did have a small local chain called Tattersall’s Books. It had a cursed ’90s-coffeehouse feel but did stock the necessities for a teenager searching for a more exciting world. Paperback classics from Steinbeck, Kerouac, Vonnegut. Magazines like Thrasher, Spin, and NME. It was a poorly lit and somewhat disorganized space in a strip mall that could transport you to another place. The bookstore boom of the late ’90s and early aughts brought us the bloated behemoths of Barnes & Noble and Borders. They sold books and magazines, CDs, DVDs, games, home furnishings, and burnt coffee. They did what they needed to do, but the big-box experience lacked the personal touch of what I thought a bookstore should be. ....