Chief book buyer at Politics & Prose Mark Laframboise died this week. According to the store’s Facebook page, he joined Politics & Prose as a bookseller nearly 25 years ago and was promoted to the top buying position 11 years ago. He served as president of the board of the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association. On Facebook, owners Brad Graham and Lissa Muscatine wrote, “It is hard to imagine not seeing Mark hunched at his computer, with a publisher rep at his side, going through his buys for the next season. It is hard to imagine the floor without Mark […]
