The Olive Reader

From our good friends at Shelf Awareness:

“When he opened the first Books & Books in a then-quiet downtown Coral Gables, Fla., in 1982, Mitchell Kaplan was an English teacher at Southridge High ‘who dreamed of opening his own bookstore, saw a future where book lovers from near and far would gather on Aragon Avenue to get a shot of literature, or culture or both,’ the Miami Herald wrote in a piece about the store’s month-long 25th anniversary celebration.

‘So much has changed,’ Kaplan told the paper. ‘When we started doing our author reading and author events, I think we tapped into a market that hadn’t quite been tapped into here in Coral Gables.’‘”