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By Nancy Ostinato
Special to the Rappahannock News
James Gannon, former owner and founder of the Old Sperryville Bookshop, begins a new chapter as he returns to the bookshop, not as a bookseller but as a visiting author. Mr. Gannon will be on hand Friday April 8th at 7:30 pm reading selec-/ tions from and signing copies of his new book, A Life in Print.
The book, while based on Gannon’s 33-year career in journalism, is more than a collection of columns he wrote for various newspapers over the years. It reads like a remarkable diary, no doubt due to the emphasis on the personal, human experiences of the writer’s life. As one reviewer of the book, Carol Stevens of USA TODAY, so aptly put it, “some columns yellow like the newspaper on which they originally appeared. The selections from the sterling career of newsman Jim Gannon are a happy exception. He writes with clarity and wit not so much about yesterday’s headlines as about universal themes that resonate through the years: family and roots and the timeless promise of land. You will like these crystalline vignettes of an American life. And you will like even more the man who lived them.”
Gannon, who spent 17 years with The Wall Street Journal as a reporter and bureau chief, covered business and economics, national politics and
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