Today on Tasteland we're speaking to James Webster, the co-owner of Recluse Books, an indie bookstore in Dallas-Fort Worth.

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Recluse Books

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Timestamps

00:00 Doing Italian things

03:53 Recluse best sellers

07:28 Logistics of picking and stocking 6,000 books

11:40 Bookstore culture of Fort Worth

15:05 Receiving feedback on book recommendations

17:11 Current reads

24:15 Running bookstore events

29:47 Bookstore location and community impact

36:04 Making books approachable

41:57 Reading hard books because they're hard

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Our intro song, Night Life, is written by Nakisso Peralta and performed by Chillers

Ep. 81: Bookseller as human algorithm ft. James Webster