Literary Hub
Craft and Criticism
Literary Criticism
Craft and Advice
In Conversation
On Translation
Fiction and Poetry
Short Story
From the Novel
Poem
News and Culture
History
Science
Politics
Biography
Memoir
Food
Technology
Bookstores and Libraries
Film and TV
Travel
Music
Art and Photography
The Hub
Style
Design
Sports
Lit Hub Radio
The Lit Hub Podcast
Awakeners
Fiction/Non/Fiction
The Critic and Her Publics
Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast
Memoir Nation
Beyond the Page
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
Thresholds
The Cosmic Library
Culture Schlock
Reading Lists
The Best of the Decade
Book Marks
Best Reviewed Books
CrimeReads
True Crime
The Daily Thrill
Log In
Craft and Criticism
Literary Criticism
Craft and Advice
In Conversation
On Translation
Fiction and Poetry
Short Story
From the Novel
Poem
News and Culture
History
Science
Politics
Biography
Memoir
Food
Technology
Bookstores and Libraries
Film and TV
Travel
Music
Art and Photography
The Hub
Style
Design
Sports
Lit Hub Radio
The Lit Hub Podcast
Awakeners
Fiction/Non/Fiction
The Critic and Her Publics
Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast
Memoir Nation
Beyond the Page
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
Thresholds
The Cosmic Library
Culture Schlock
Reading Lists
The Best of the Decade
Book Marks
Best Reviewed Books
CrimeReads
True Crime
The Daily Thrill
Log In
The Things We Learned in the Fire:
On the Destruction (and Rebirth) of a Bookstore
Brad Johnson on the Life and Death and Life of East Bay Booksellers
By
Brad Johnson
| February 26, 2025
So, Do You Really Want to
Help Bookstores?
Brad Johnson on the High Cost of Business as Usual
By
Brad Johnson
| March 23, 2020
Bookselling in the 21st Century: From the Seminary to the Bookstore
Brad Johnson Finds His Calling in the Unlikeliest Place
By
Brad Johnson
| October 26, 2016
Literary Long Weekend: East (San Francisco) Bay
Priced-Out Into a Bookstore Paradise
By
Brad Johnson
| November 13, 2015
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
The Ghosts of Inch Beach
October 29, 2025
by
Carlene O'Connor
Raising the Devil: Parenting, Control, and Horror Fiction’s Obsession with Sinister Children
October 29, 2025
by
Brian Asman
Predators On and Off the Page: Noelle Ilhi on Writing about Assault in Crime Fiction
October 29, 2025
by
Noelle Ihli
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
"Not much happens In fact there is much in the text that is not made…"