Mary Cappello is featured in guest author blogs for this chain of bookstores in what us city?
Powell's Books Powell's Books is a chain of bookstores in Portland, Oregon, and its surrounding metropolitan area. Powell's headquarters, dubbed Powell's City of Books, claims to be the largest independent new and used bookstore in the world. Powell's City of Books is located in the Pearl District on the edge of downtown and occupies a full city block between NW 10th and 11th Avenues and between W. Burnside and NW Couch Streets. It contains over 68,000 ft2 , about 1.6 acres of retail floor space. CNN rates it one of the ten "coolest" bookstores in the world.
Elissa Schappell Elissa Schappell is an American novelist, short-story writer, editor and essayist. Her first book of fiction, "Use Me", a collection of 10 linked short stories, was published in 2000 by William Morrow, and was runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway Award. She is the co-founder of the literary magazine "Tin House" and Editor-at-Large. She was previously a Senior Editor at "The Paris Review". She is a Contributing-editor at "Vanity Fair", and was the longtime of author of the "Hot Type" book column. A second book of fiction, "Blueprints for Building Better Girls", was published by Simon & Schuster in 2011. It was chosen as a "Best Book of the Year" by "The San Francisco Chronicle", "The Boston Globe", "The Wall Street Journal". "Newsweek/The Daily Beast", and "O Magazine". She teaches at schools including Columbia University, NYU, and Queens University. Originally from Delaware, she now lives in Brooklyn with her family.