We’re thrilled to report that BookPeople of Moscow has been sold. Longtime owner Bob Greene, who is retiring, announced on 11-11-2011 at 11:11, that Carol Spurling and Steffen Werner have bought the store. Spurling has been a bookseller at Old Harbor Books in Sitka, Alaska, and also managed Brused Books in Pullman for three years. …
Josh Ritter, the talented troubadour who hails from Moscow, ID, will go on an altogether different kind of tour this summer—one to promote his new novel, Bright’s Passage, which debuts this Tuesday from Dial Press. Ritter shared with us this vignette about his hometown bookstore, BookPeople of Moscow: “I remember BookPeople from when it was …
When BookPeople of Moscow’s Bob Greene announced his retirement in March, the terms were a bit . . . flexible, we’ll say. His farewell tour started with a St. Patty’s Day celebration and continues to this day. Bob’s last day is, at least to some degree, tied to the fate of the store, which, it …
