Across the country and in Baton Rouge, reading gets a glow-up

Across the country and in Baton Rouge, reading gets a glow-up

Bookstore owner Missy Couhig didn’t know what to expect. One Saturday back in April, Couhig was preparing to participate in the first-ever Baton Rouge Book Crawl, an event organized across four local bookstores by Red Stick Reads co-owner Tere Hyfield to mark Independent Bookstore Day. “I got to my shop thinking, ‘I’ll put a few snacks out, maybe have some local authors stop by and just see how it goes,’” recalls Couhig, owner of The Conundrum b…