Janet, when did you start your bookstore . We started with our first incarnation in 1989, we just celebrated our 30 years of selling books in detroit and not that time we were vendors going to put people from showing up and into thousand two we joined a collective of three independent stores that share the space and in 2013 we moved into the space that we run now midtown detroit. How far from the downtown area are you in detroit. We are about eight or 9 miles, downtown is one district as they say now in detroit and midtown is the next district after that. Years ago a news center was created, another part of the city and that is another five or 7 miles beyond us. We are in the heart of the cultural life of the city with the universities, the library, the main library, the university, the Health Center and a lot of galleries in africanamerican museum, the historical museum, were in a cultural rich area of the city and its really the heart of the city. You are just a couple blocks off woo
Look for more booktv on line error write us on facebook. Next in this booknotes from 1999, Randall Kenan discusses his book walking on water black american lives at the turn of the twentyfirst century. In preparing the book mr. Sapi travel the country for period of six years and interviewed nearly 200 africanamericans. This encore presentation is about an hour. Cspan Randall Kenan, author of walking on water, whats your book about . Guest well, its a travel narrative about what it means to be black in america. I sort of set out to travel all over north america, traveling on a theme. And the theme was to ask the question what does it mean at the end of the Twentieth Century to be black . Cspan wheres this cover picture taken . Guest i dont know thats one of the reasons we chose it, it sort of looks like everytown, america. Cspan when did you start to travel . Guest i started in 1991, beginning in new england and traveling north and west, going to places like alaska, coming back around d
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