• Bookstores and Libraries

    The Hub

    Read Mosab Abu Toha’s statement on the destruction of the Edward Said Library in Gaza.

     
    By Dan Sheehan  January 24, 2025
    The Hub

    Stuck in a reading rut? Sign up for the annual Free Black Women’s Library Reading Challenge.

    By Brittany Allen  January 14, 2025
    The Hub

    You can now find Jhumpa Lahiri’s first drafts at the New York Public Library.

    By Brittany Allen  January 13, 2025
    Mutual Aid

    Here’s How You Can Help Fire-Affected Angelenos

    By Brittany Allen  January 10, 2025
    Best of 2024

    The 50 Biggest Literary Stories of 2024

    By Literary Hub  December 24, 2024
    The Hub

    According to library checkouts, New Yorkers read a lot of Gabrielle Zevin this year.

    By James Folta  December 18, 2024
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Travel

    Move over, Alexandria: A new exhibit features lost, imagined, and totally fake books.

    By Brittany Allen  December 16, 2024
    Book Bans

    New Jersey fights back in the face of national book-banning.

    By Jonny Diamond  December 12, 2024
    The Hub

    Joseph Earl Thomas wins The Center for Fiction’s 2024 First Novel Prize.

    By James Folta  December 11, 2024
    Travel

    Make 2025 the year you read more books in translation.

    By Brittany Allen  January 21, 2025
    Home Libraries

    A Refuge for the Soul: How to Build a Library, According to Montaigne

    By Andrew Hui  December 5, 2024
    The Hub

    Spending Thanksgiving Eve at a bookstore is what the Founders intended.

    By James Folta  November 27, 2024
    Small Presses

    On Small Business Saturday, Consider the Small Press

    By Casie Dodd  November 26, 2024
    The Hub

    The 2024 Cercador Prize goes to The Book of All Loves.

    By Drew Broussard  November 18, 2024
    The Hub

    Want to know how libraries fared on the ballot? This cool non-profit made a chart.

    By Brittany Allen  November 13, 2024
    The Hub

    Here are Libro’s bestselling audiobooks of 2024.

    By Brittany Allen  November 13, 2024
    On Identity

    How a Novel by Mildred D. Taylor Helped Glory Edim Understand Being Black in the South

    By Glory Edim  November 6, 2024
    Libraries

    Brittany Rogers on How Libraries Helped Her Feel Safe and Embrace Her Queerness

    The Author of “Good Dress” Explores Libraries as Spaces for Self-Growth for Her and the Next Generation

    By Brittany Rogers  October 16, 2024
    The Hub

    Threatened with eviction, a Brooklyn comic shop raised almost $90K to stay open.

    By James Folta  October 9, 2024
    The Hub

    Five cultural hubs to follow for Hurricane Helene updates.

    By Brittany Allen  September 30, 2024
    Literary History

    An Expat’s Homebase: How the Iconic Village Voice Bookshop in Paris Launched Lit Mags

    By Odile Hellier  September 26, 2024
    Motherhood

    Books Have No Gender: On Being a Small Town Librarian While Raising a Trans Child

    Abi Maxwell: “This town felt so conservative, its social norms so crushing. I needed someone who would help me swim against them.”

    By Abi Maxwell  September 17, 2024
    Small Presses

    Community and Connection: On the Unexpected Benefits of Publishing Through a Small Press

    By Rilla Askew  September 17, 2024
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    If You Skip a Friend’s Book Launch Are You the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  August 22, 2024
    The Hub

    Don’t cross the Strand Workers Union picket line!

    By James Folta  December 9, 2024
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