The Store Next Door
Thanks for taking a stroll with us and checking out the retail gems down the street, around the corner, and in our own backyards in The Store Next Door podcast with Author Doug Cooper where each show we talk to owners, managers, and employees of some of the coolest book stores around and chat with authors about their latest releases.
Season 2 Now Available on Your Favorite Podcast Streaming Platform
New Episode Each Month from Owners, Managers, and Employees of Some of the Coolest Book Stores Around and Some of your Favorite and Soon-to-be-Favorite Authors and Book Industry Professionals.
Season 2 Episode 2
Doug Cooper continues season 2 with Gary Lippman, author of We Loved The World But Could Not Stay: A Collection of One-Sentence Stories. Listen to the audio on your favorite podcast platform or below.
Gary Lippman, has followed his acclaimed novel Set the Controls for the Heart of Sharon Tate with another masterpiece. Praised by Laurie Anderson, Tom Robbins, and Lorraine Bracco, WE LOVED THE WORLD BUT COULD NOT STAY is no dry philosophical tome. Offering up psychedelic portraits of time travelers and taxi drivers, a wrestling match between ancient Gods, and the meaning of a mural on the wall of a Miami Beach pizzeria, Lippman deploys a unique artistic sensibility, one that combines Borscht Belt-style one-liners and surreal takes on American pop iconography.
Season 2 Ep 2: Gary Lippman, Author of We Loved The World But Could Not Stay
About The Store Next Door
The Store Next Door podcast is about bookstores, booksellers, and the authors behind your favorite books. One of the many misconceptions about the book business is that bookstores are disappearing from the business landscape. In fact, according to Statistica, the number of independent bookstores has increased year over from 2009 to 2019. The purpose of the The Store Next Door is to promote and celebrate the unique people, places, and products that are driving this growth and creating the book-loving communities we need to function and prosper as an educated society.
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Doug Cooper
Doug Cooper is the award-winning author of the novels Outside In, The Investment Club, and Focus Lost, and coming in Spring 2023, the children’s book The Snail & The Butterfly. Always searching, he has traveled to over twenty-five countries on five continents, exploring the contradictions between what we believe and how we act in the pursuit of truth, beauty, and love. He has also called Cleveland, St. Louis, Detroit, New York, Las Vegas, and Oslo, Norway home, and now resides in Vermilion, Ohio.
His love for books and those who dedicate their lives to writing them and tirelessly promoting and selling them inspired him to create The Store Next Door podcast and share the stories behind the stories. Learn more about Doug and his writing by clicking the button below or following him on social media or asking your favorite bookstore to order his books.
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Author Gary Lippman
Gary Lippman, has followed his acclaimed novel Set the Controls for the Heart of Sharon Tate with another masterpiece. Praised by Laurie Anderson, Tom Robbins, and Lorraine Bracco, WE LOVED THE WORLD BUT COULD NOT STAY is no dry philosophical tome. Offering up psychedelic portraits of time travelers and taxi drivers, a wrestling match between ancient Gods, and the meaning of a mural on the wall of a Miami Beach pizzeria, Lippman deploys a unique artistic sensibility, one that combines Borscht Belt-style one-liners and surreal takes on American pop iconography.
Born and raised in New Jersey, Gary Lippman received a law degree from Northwestern University and has worked with New York’s Innocence Project. Lippman’s play Paradox Lust ran off-off-Broadway for a month in 2001 and his writing has been published in The New York Times, The Paris Review, VICE, Fodors, Upstate Diary, Open City, Sex And Design, and 8 By 8, while his visual art can be seen at apocalippy.com. To learn more about Gary and his writing, follow him on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram.
Gary Lippman, We Loved The World But Could Not Stay
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