“It’s not, I don’t think, hyperbolic to say that books can and have changed people’s lives, and how we find books matters a great deal.” In this conversation with Politics and Prose Bookstore co-owner Bradley Graham, author Evan Friss talks about his book The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore (Viking, 2024) and how bookstores serve as important spaces that foster community and culture in America.