Congratulations to Malaprop's Bookstore/Café, Asheville, N.C., which will celebrate its 30th anniversary next month. A party on June 30 will feature an official proclamation to owner Emoke B'Racz, read by Asheville City Council member Cecil Bothwell.
As part of the celebration, Malaprop's Burning Bush Press published Naked Came the Leaf Peeper, a serial collaborative novel featuring 12 local authors who built upon a story arc imagined in the first chapter by Brian Lee Knopp and finished by Tony Earley. Other anniversary highlights will include letterpress broadsides of two of B'Racz's poems, a storewide sale June 1, as well as Twitter and Facebook specials during the month.
On the shop's website, B'Racz observed that "thirty years after the birth of Malaprop's, our goals are the same as the ones we committed to in 1982":
- To be the best little bookstore in the land.
- To enjoy what we do while we're doing it.
- To be aware and supportive of financial needs and ensure that bookselling is a fine and noble profession.