Andrew Laties
American writer and bookseller
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Andrew Laties is an American writer and bookseller born in Baltimore, Maryland.
Laties has written for a variety of websites[1][2] and magazines[3] He also maintains a personal blog.[4]
In 2005 Vox Pop published his IPPY Award-winning[5] book Rebel Bookseller: How To Improvise Your Own Indie Store And Beat Back The Chains.[6][7][8][9] Vox Pop was an independent publisher and a well-known local café in Brooklyn, New York[10][11][12][13] with which Laties was intimately involved.[14] As of September 8, 2010, however, Vox Pop was forced to close its doors.[15]
A second edition entitled Rebel Bookseller: Why Indie Businesses Represent Everything You Want to Fight for—from Free Speech to Buying Local to Building Communities came out in July 2011 from Seven Stories Press.[16]
In addition to his writing, Laties has spoken on the current state of independent publishing.[17] Most recently he presented a lecture titled "Indie Bookstores Still Count: What We Can Do For Publishers, and What Publishers Can Do For Us" at the Digital Book World 2011 conference.[18]
Laties is the founding manager of the Eric Carle Museum Bookshop[19][20] in Amherst, Massachusetts. Previously, in Chicago, Illinois, Laties co-founded The Children's Bookstore (1985–1996),[21][22][23] which received the 1987 WNBA Pannell Award for Excellence in Children's Bookselling.[24] He then created The Children's Museum Store (1994–2002).[25]
Laties with his life and artistic partner Rebecca Migdal is the proprietor of Book & Puppet a bookstore and performance venue on Northampton Street in Easton, Pennsylvania which opened in its first incarnation in the city in 2017.[26] Book and Puppet opened a new and eventually exclusive location on Center Square in Easton in 2019.[27]