• Bookstores and Libraries

    The Hub

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

     
    By James Folta  October 9, 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

    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
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    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

    By Priscilla Morris  August 20, 2024
    Travel

    The coolest bookstore bars in America.

    By Brittany Allen  August 16, 2024
    The Hub

    Five cultural hubs to follow for Hurricane Helene updates.

    By Brittany Allen  September 30, 2024
    The Hub

    This veep likes books! Governor Tim Walz put a Little Free Library in the Minnesota capitol.

    By Brittany Allen  August 7, 2024
    The Hub

    Russian missiles destroyed one of Ukraine’s largest book-printing presses.

    By James Folta  July 18, 2024
    Posters

    100 of the Greatest Posters of Celebrities Urging You to Read

    By James Folta  July 18, 2024
    Literary History

    The Man Who Created the Trade Paperback

    Michael Castleman on the Life and Times of Jason Epstein, Cofounder of “The New York Review of Books”

    By Michael Castleman  July 18, 2024
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    My Local Indie Won’t Stock My Buzzy Debut and I’m Pissed: Am I the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  July 11, 2024
    Censorship

    Remembering Samuel Roth, the Bookseller Who Defied America’s Obscenity Laws

    By Ed Simon  July 3, 2024
    The Hub

    Ukraine has passed a new law that directly supports bookstores.

    By Drew Broussard  June 28, 2024
    Indie Presses

    How a Small Press Poetry Contest Launched Samuel Beckett’s Career

    Adam Smyth on Nancy Cunard, the Woman Who First Discovered the Future Nobel Laureate

    By Adam Smyth  June 26, 2024
    Queer Literature

    Winning the Culture War Against Queer Kids’ Books

    By Michael Leali  June 17, 2024
    The Hub

    The 2024 Young Lions Fiction Award goes to E.J. Koh.

    By Brittany Allen  June 14, 2024
    The Hub

    The Refaat Mobile Library is raising funds for Gaza.

    By Dan Sheehan  June 14, 2024
    The Hub

    1979’s The Book-Store Book documents a lost borough of booksellers.

    By James Folta  June 11, 2024
    The Hub

    The Philadelphia Free Library’s whole Author Events staff has resigned over workplace conditions.

    By James Folta  June 6, 2024
    The Hub

    Why it’s so hard to lend a book to a friend, according to the internet.

    By James Folta  May 30, 2024
    The Hub

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

    By James Folta  August 16, 2024
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