CSPAN2 Book TV August 8, 2011
experience covering this location or the other. i was just saying to someone before the event started on this particular tour we had 40 some odd book signings and events and only one of them has been in a chain bookstore and i am very happy about that. [applause] chains are important to me but independent bookstores are more important to me. the independent bookstores are like my route 66. >> bookstores are like those monotonous turnpikes, interstate highways. i have to take them but i prefer to be on the old road, the authentic, the personal. tonight i'm in the unusual position of p...