It's a bookseller-heavy episode this week—just in time to start thinking about shopping local/indie for your holiday shopping needs...

• Drew expands on his recent piece about the low-quality paperbacks suddenly showing up in bookstores

• Calvin Kasulke talks to Ramsey Kanaan of PM Press about his leftist press taking ownership of Autumn Leaves, the legendary indie bookstore in Ithaca, NY

• Maris Kreizman drops in to discuss her latest column on the need for better fact-checking

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