Literati Bookstore in Ann Arbor, Mich., has been named PW's Bookstore of the Year. Literati opened in 2013. As they celebrated the store's fifth anniversary last April, co-owners Hilary and Michael Gustafson posted on Facebook: "When we opened Literati we knew the importance of bookstores in our own lives and hoped to continue the long tradition of bookselling in Ann Arbor. We wanted to foster the idea that bookstores are places where people gather, where people discover new ideas, attend readings of an author they've never heard about before, and where people can surprise themselves. These ideas of community, curiosity, and a craving to interact with real people at a real bookstore are not new, and they did not begin here at Literati, but we feel incredibly lucky to work every day to keep them alive."
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This year's PW Rep of the Year is Cindy Heidemann, a PGW and Two Rivers sales representative in the Northwest. She began her book career at the University of Oregon Bookstore before becoming a commission rep for Redsides Pub Services. In 2003 she joined PGW.