Longtime Tattered Cover owner Joyce Meskis, 80, died at home on December 22. Meskis purchased the small namesake bookstore in 1974 and grew it into a renowned group of stores, and sold the company in 2015. Longtime employee Cathy Langer said, “Her legacy is changing the way people think about bookstores and their role in society.” As the store notes, “Joyce was a literary lioness that evolved our industry in a way that few others had done before her.”
