Mina Hemingway, Ernest’s granddaughter, has found a new occupation: bookstore owner. On September 14, according to Bookselling This Week, Bookstore at the Pavilion in Naples, Florida, officially became Mina Hemingway’s Florida Bookstore. The store, which features 1,200 square feet of retail space, remained open during the transfer of ownership, Mina Hemingway recently told BTW. “We carry everything available written by Hemingway, and we’re working on growing the section on Hemingway by other writers,” Mina Hemingway explained. “We also carry magazines and used books. The bulk of our customers are retirees,” Hemingway observed, “but we do have a children’s section, and it does very well.”
About to open in just a few days is Garrison Keillor‘s much-ballyhooed entry into bookselling, Corner Books in St. Paul. You can visit it below Nina’s Coffee Cafe at the corner of Western and Selby Avenues. (second-to-last item.)