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| Spencer Ruchti | |
Spencer Ruchti has been named the new author events manager at Seattle's Third Place Books, effective May 10, succeeding Sam Kaas, author events manager since 2018, who is leaving the company to move to Norwich, Vt., to become the new owner, with his partner, Emma Nichols, of the Norwich Bookstore.
Ruchti started as a bookseller in 2017, where he helped curate the author series of the Harvard Book Store, Cambridge, Mass. He's worked in editorial roles at Boston Review, Camas magazine and, most recently, Tin House Books, and is currently the co-editor of the Du Mois Monthly, a newsletter about literature in translation, with Du Mois creator Justin Walls. Before joining Third Place Books, he was a bookseller at Broadway Books in Portland, Ore.
Robert Sindelar, managing partner at Third Place Books, said, "As this new move makes clear, Sam is and has always been a 'lifer' in the bookstore business. His tireless creative work this past year to transform our large successful events program from physical to virtual has been invaluable. He is leaving our program in peak form; perfectly poised for someone of Spencer Ruchti's knowledge, experience and passion to take over."