10 Useful Skills For Working as a Bookseller

Claire Handscombe
5 min readNov 4, 2019

I’ve recently fulfilled my years-long dream of becoming a bookseller — I now work at East City Bookshop in Washington D.C., a lovely woman-owned bookshop on Capitol Hill, which is a picturesque neighbourhood of engaged, passionate readers and thinkers. So far, I love it — my colleagues are great, the customers are friendly, and I feel like Rory Gilmore every time I walk into work.

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Claire Handscombe

Editor of WALK WITH US: How the West Wing Changed Our Lives; author of the novel UNSCRIPTED and of CONQUERING BABEL: a Practical Guide to Learning a Language.