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Michael Brophy is the owner of Doyle's Books in Fayetteville, NY When Michael Brophy was living in Los Angeles in the mid-90s, he had a bit more free time than usual, and so he decided to spend it catching up on books he hadn’t read yet. One day, he stumbled upon John Steinbeck’s non-fiction narrative about marine biology “The Log from the Sea of Cortez” which especially sparked his interest, as he has a background in biology. It moved him to such a degree that he began combi

Leslie Arthur is the owner of Second Wind Books, an online antiquarian bookstore that specializes in early 20th century Modernist writers, with a specific concentration in Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group, but she wasn’t always in this field. Years ago, Leslie was a civil litigation paralegal, and left to join the world of bookselling. Now, 20 years after leaving law, Leslie is joining us at the Northampton Book Fair to exhibit and sell some of the books from her finel

We are excited to welcome Francisco Aguirre-Ghiso, our new Marketing and Communications Intern. Francisco is a University of Massachusetts, Amherst junior, majoring in journalism and English, and he also serves as assistant arts editor at The Daily Collegian, the student newspaper. That mix says a lot before the work even begins. It points to someone who understands deadlines, cares about language, pays attention to culture, and knows how to shape a story so readers want to k