StudioTulsa

Magic in the Air, and on the Shelves, in Downtown Tulsa: Magic City Books Will Open Soon

Public Radio Tulsa | By Rich Fisher

Published November 17, 2017 at 6:22 PM CST

"To have great poets," as Walt Whitman once noted, "there must also be great audiences." And great cities, it would seem, likewise require great bookstores. On this edition of ST, we learn all about Magic City Books -- an indie bookstore owned and operated by the non-profit Tulsa Literary Coalition (or TLC) -- which will soon, at long last, open for business in downtown Tulsa. Indeed, after a series of construction-related delays, Magic City Books will open on Monday the 20th at 9pm...with Mayor G.T. Bynum cutting the ceremonial ribbon, no less. Our guests today bring us up to speed on what this much-anticipated bookshop will offer, and how it will operate, and so forth. Our two guests are Cindy Hulsey, the executive director of the TLC, and Jeff Martin, the president of the TLC's board of directors.

Rich Fisher

Rich Fisher passed through KWGS about thirty years ago, and just never left. Today, he is the general manager of Public Radio Tulsa, and the host of KWGS’s public affairs program, StudioTulsa, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary in August 2012 . As host of StudioTulsa, Rich has conducted roughly four thousand long-form interviews with local, national, and international figures in the arts, humanities, sciences, and government. Very few interviews have gone smoothly. Despite this, he has been honored for his work by several organizations including the Governor's Arts Award for Media by the State Arts Council, a Harwelden Award from the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, and was named one of the “99 Great Things About Oklahoma” in 2000 by Oklahoma Today magazine.

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