Michael's picks

Michael Herrmann moved from New York City in 1994 to buy Gibson’s, and he is the fifth owner of the store in its 113 year history. Some of his favorite authors are Shakespeare, Joyce, Nabokov, Louise Erdrich, Dashiell Hammett, and Lee Child, in descending order of snootiness.  He thinks the best living writer is Cormac McCarthy, and will drop what he’s doing to argue the point. Michael has served on the boards of Main Street Concord, the New Hampshire Writers’ Project, and (currently) the New England Independent Booksellers Association.