The author’s firsthand experience informs her new novel, “Bookish People.”
in 2011, and she promised the store’s owners that she wouldn’t write some kind of comic behind-the-scenes account of the beloved Connecticut Avenue shop. Oops. “I assured them that was not my intention,” says Coll, who ran the store’s programming and author events. “It truly was not! It just happened.”, turns out to be a lightly fictionalized, highly exaggerated, and very entertaining look at the lives of beleaguered booksellers.
Coll also serves as board president for the PEN/Faulkner Foundation—raising the question of whether her next novel might be set inside the wacky world of a DC literary organization. The possibility has led to a lot of jokes around PEN/Faulkner, but Coll says she isn’t planning anything along those lines. That’s what she promised with P&P, though, so . . . . “No,” Coll insists, laughing. “I am not writing that book.” Consider it a maybe.
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