Hi everybody --It's been a very long time between recordings. Much has been happening -- in our bookselling world and the world beyond bookselling.In today's episode, we crack open a few beers and discuss both. Argu...

Greetings! Liz & Brad are back & recuperated from Winter Institute, and they're ready to go with the podcast they thought they might record there ... but sociality and frivolity got in the way. In this episode, they discuss...

It's a rainy day .... so very rainy! Our heroes have parked a ways away, and consider the possibility that perhaps they might wait it out for a lull. They did not fully realize that the rains would continue for some eighteen days. Fortunately, ...

We took a bit of a break after our blow-out 20th episode way back in April. A break from podcasting, that is. In this episode we talk about what we've been up to in the meantime: e.g., Brad stirring up a tempest (not really!) his c...

Episode 20! That sort of number feels sort of monumental, so we opted for a super-sized episode to truly reward your patience and attention! Ah, but there are goodies along the way, fear not. What do we talk about this episode? Let's se...

Brad & Liz explain what they've been up for three months (not much), discuss their feelings about Zombie Winter Institute (aka Snow Days), and talk with Matt Keliher from Subtext Books (Saint Paul, Minnesota) about  the NAIBA "

A Faced Out Podcast tradition has been born, a New Years special!This episode was very quickly put together, and it sort of snowballs. If you think it starts of kind of meek and mild ... eh ... stick with it, I guess we'll say. There ar...

Liz & Brad talk to the one & only (maybe there's more, but the only one near & dear to them as booksellers), Gary Lovely. Gary is currently at Prologue Bookshop in Columbus, Ohio. Gary schools them about Midwestern university town b...

Brad & Liz are back from their vacations, they're rested (more or less), and they're still keen to talk about bookselling! Today's episode includes a discussion of the ABA tomfoolery, supply chain hijinks, and sideline shenanigans. 

Brad & Liz dig into the various ways "normal" is said to be nearly upon us, whether we like it or not. Unsurprisingly, they have thoughts about how all normalcy is taking shape. They take special issue with new developments in corporate dis...

In this episode, Brad & Liz are in a commemorative mood. Of their vaccinations, of Brad's birthday, (no mention of Liz's mop, alas) ... and, like a regular digestive system, Simon & Schuster's sh*tty ways. As it turns out, ...

Brad & Liz chat with Julia Callahan from Rare Bird Books and Cristina Rodriguez from A Public Space (recently of Deep Vellum Books) to talk all things "indie." And what a conversation it is! The weeds get high, and they're whacked mightily ...

Hey there! It's been a while. Two months, in fact. We're making up for lost time with the first installment of a two-parter! (Hang on to your seats for the cliffhanger ending!)In this issue we talk about what we've been up to since our ...

It's only been a week since Brad & Liz last recorded, but history is determined to cram as much as possible into our weeks these days. The riotous white supremacist free for all in D.C.  is the backdrop of a conversation w...

It's a half day for our heroes at the bookstore, New Years Eve. Upon closing up for the day and the year, they sat down for what they planned on being a "short podcast." It is, of course, an hour. The year that was! The year that m...

Brad & Liz have prepared notes for this episode and they're not afraid to use them ... provided Liz can get her phone to work!Recorded a couple of weeks after an epochal election that is not so much as mentioned! Not avoided ... jus...

No guest this week? Will we ever have a guest again? Have we burned every bookselling bridge we've ever known? Who's to say?!This week's episode is all about the month that was. We talk about the downturn in indie bookstore sales & ...

So much happening in the book world the past couple of weeks. From hijinks at purportedly venerable indie bookselling institutions, to a world-famous children's author double- and tripling-down on hateful trolling, to West Coast fires, to ... y...

SURPRISE!Liz & I thought we'd commemorate this year's Independent Bookstore Day with an impromptu recording. As is our wont -- our intention to keep it light and positive goes slightly ... well, you'll see. We talk abou...

One doesn't simply talk with Angela Maria Spring. She is one of the true forces of bookselling, and it was a pleasure talking with her in this episode of Faced Out.Liz & Brad get things rolling with a chat about "bookselling from a ...

[Note to the first-downloaders: Due to some technical issues, we've re-uploaded the podcast. There was a mysteriously missing 10 or so minutes around the 50 minute mark! -- BJ (8/1/20 6:38 PST)]

We're tired. You're tired. We're all tired. In this episode Brad & Liz power through their exhaustion and try to imagine alternative ideas of how to be a bookstore. We're hitting the limit of what we can do as a fulfillment center, ...

Episode Two was recorded in both the midst & the wake of protests against police violence. It's a fiery one, from start to finish. Lisa Lucas, Executive Director of the National Book Foundation, joins Liz & Brad for a conversation about...

In our extra special first episode we sip from tiny cups while speculating wildly about the future of this podcast, and chat with Hannah Oliver Depp, owner of Loyalty Bookstores, about a little b...