In a live interview with NPR's Brooke Gladstone, Dave Eggers talks about publishing, the future of print journalism, and McSweeney's latest newspaper offering, Panorama. Here's Dave:

"For me, I don't know what I would do if I didn't have two, three daily papers a day to read. I don't want to read online. I don't want to wake up and look at a screen. I feel like, you know, as a society, we try to put everything on that same goddamn screen. And pretty soon we're going to be eating on the screen or like [LAUGHTER] making love through the screen. It’s just sort of like why does everything have to be on a screen? ....I like the curatorial, the calmness, the authority of a daily paper. But I do think that it’s a time to make the paper form more robust and more surprising and beautiful and expansive. People still want to read long form literary journals and nonfiction, etc., and so why can't the print medium do that and be that home and leave the Internet to do the more quick thinking and quick reacting things?"

For the complete transcript or the audio, visit OnTheMedia.org.

"These stories do not always end badly. Two years ago, [Frank] Kramer found motivated buyers for his Harvard Square bookstore: Jeff Mayersohn and his wife, Linda Seamonson. They have invested in the property and retained the highly regarded staff. There was a recession in 2008, maybe you heard. 'Sales are down but not catastrophically,' Mayersohn said. 'I am a big believer in the future of books. I think there is money to be made in the book business. People are spending a lot of time talking about books, and that can’t be all that bad.' " Click here for the full article.

Meanwhile, Union Park Press, an independent publisher in Boston, has taken up the torch with a little contest: tell them about your favorite independent bookstore, and you'll be entered into a raffle to win a free book!