Several authors have donned small-business hats and opened a bookstore Books are Magic Where: Brooklyn, New York from Emma Straub Books and Beans Where: Rocky Mount, North Carolina from Etaf Rum Books & Books Where: Key West, FL from Judy Blume Parnassus Books Where: Nashville, TN, from Karen Hayes and Bel Canto novelist Ann Patchett Birchbark Books & Native Arts Where: Minneapolis from Louise Erdrich An Unlikely Story Bookstore & Cafe Where: Plainville, MA from co-owner Jeff Kinney Beastly Books Where: Santa Fe, NM from George R.R. Martin Booked Up Where: Archer City, TX from Larry McMurtry Skylark Bookshop Where: Columbia, MD from Alex George