Parnassus Books, the Nashville bookstore co-owned by author Ann Patchett and Random House sales rep Karen Hayes, will be located in the city’s Greenbriar Village neighborhood, the same area where Davis-Kidd was located before it closed at the beginning of 2011. The 2,500-square foot store will open in October. “The location was great. I would rather thrive in a small space than shiver in a big space,” Patchett told the Tennessean. “David Crabtree (executive vice president of Brookside Properties, which owns the space) is so spectacular. Some people said we don’t want a bookstore. Bookstores are dead, but he got […]
