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Porter Square Books and Author Fran Hawthorne
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Today I’m in Cambridge, Massachusetts speaking with Marika McCoola at Porter Square Books. Marika is the author of Baba Yaga’s Assistant, a YA graphic novel. In the second part of this episode, I chat with the author, Fran Hawthorne. Fran is a journalist and author of five non-fiction books: Ethical Chic, The Overloaded Liberal, Pension Dumping, Inside the FDA, and The Merck Druggernaut. Her most recent novel is The Heirs which asks the questions how many generations does guilt carry on and what did your grandparents do to my grandparents?
Links from this episode:
Booksellers of Porter Square Books
Video for Bookstore of the Year
So, You Want to Be a Bookseller, Porter Square Books
Marika McCoola, author & illustrator
Baba Yaga’s Assistant, Marika McCoola
Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Merck Druggernaut: The Inside Story of a Pharmaceutical Giant, Fran Hawthorn
Ethical Chic: The Inside Story of the Companies We Think We Love, Fran Hawthorne
Pension Investing and Social Activism: Combining Conscience and Commerce, Fran Hawthorne