One of our favorite 2024 interviews: Karl Weber, author/editor of "Why Books Still Matter: Honoring Joyce Meskis: Essays on the Past, Present and Future of Books, Bookselling, and Publishing." Joyce Meskis was the founder of Tattered Cover Books in Denver, CO- one of the most famous independent bookstores in the world .... which really helped to revolutionize the notion of what a bookstore could be. The book is a collection of fascinating essays (by various writers) about various facets of the book industry. The interview originally aired during Banned Books Week. The book spends some time talking about Book Banning and why the practice is so destructive to democracy.