Midtown Reader, Tallahassee, Fla., will hold its grand opening on Saturday, November 12, celebrating with events featuring Curious George and Martha the Talking Dog, as well as a 5:30 p.m. open house with Tallahassee authors hosted by David Kirby.
The store's soft opening is this week and it will host its first event November 5, for Craig Pittman, whose new book is Oh, Florida: How America's Weirdest State Influences the Rest of the Country. And on November 10, Ravi Howard, author of Driving the King, will appear.
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| Donna Paz Kaufman, Mark Kaufman and Sally Bradshaw | |
Midtown Reader is owned by Sally Bradshaw, a graduate of Paz & Associates' "bookstore boot camp," who has been helped by Donna Paz Kaufman and Mark Kaufman. Bradshaw, who served as senior adviser to former Governor Jeb Bush during his presidential campaign, said that she decided to open a bookstore after reading that Tallahassee had been ranked the smartest city in Florida and one of the smartest cities in the nation but, as she put it, the Florida capital has "really never had a true independent bookstore."