• Bookstores and Libraries

    The Hub

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

     
    By James Folta  December 18, 2024
    Best of 2024

    The 50 Biggest Literary Stories of 2024

    By Literary Hub  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
    The Hub

    Don’t cross the Strand Workers Union picket line!

    By James Folta  December 9, 2024
    Home Libraries

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

    By Andrew Hui  December 5, 2024
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    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
    Travel

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

    By Brittany Allen  December 16, 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

    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

    By Abi Maxwell  September 17, 2024
    Small Presses

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

    Rilla Askew Finds Her Audience with the Help of Indies After the Shuttering of Small Press Distribution

    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
    Bookselling

    Bigoted Bookselling: When the Nazis Opened a Propaganda Bookstore in Los Angeles

    By Evan Friss  August 21, 2024
    The Hub

    Never get stranded without a novel again with this map of 6,000 bookstores.

    By James Folta  August 20, 2024
    War

    What the Deliberate Targeting of Libraries Reveals About the Nature of War

    Priscilla Morris on the Burning Books and Besieged City That Inspired Her Novel

    By Priscilla Morris  August 20, 2024
    Travel

    The coolest bookstore bars in America.

    By Brittany Allen  August 16, 2024
    The Hub

    A Florida college shamefully tossed hundreds of LGBTQ+ books in a dumpster.

    By James Folta  August 16, 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
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