I love that Andy Ross is the former owner of Cody’s Books in Berkeley, and that I went there when I first moved to San Francisco after college. When The Satanic Verses came out, someone threw a pipe bomb through the window (it didn’t explode), and the staff voted unanimously to continue to sell the controversial novel (was there ever a more controversial novel??).

“That was my proudest moment in bookselling,” Andy says on his website, andyrossagency.com.

For the entire hour that he was was on the show, Andy talks about the types of books and authors his agency takes on, the current state of publishing, Amazon, and more. He was great fun to talk to.

Barbara

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 (Broadcast date: August 6, 2014)