• Bookstores and Libraries

    Libraries

    How a Year Without My Library Has Changed Me

    By Lauren Du Graf  March 8, 2021
    Your Week in Virtual Book Events

    Your Week in Virtual Book Events, March 1st to March 7th

    By Kiki Nicole  March 1, 2021
    In Memoriam

    Thank You, Lawrence Ferlinghetti

    By Alysia Abbott  February 26, 2021
    Travel

    Feast your eyes on this gorgeous Tokyo bookshop-slash-hotel.

    By Walker Caplan  February 23, 2021
    Rare Books

    Own a Complete Set of the Paperback Experiment That Paved the Way for Penguin

    By Rebecca Rego Barry  February 22, 2021
    Your Week in Virtual Book Events

    Your Week in Virtual Book Events, Feb. 22nd to Feb. 28th

    By Kiki Nicole  February 22, 2021
    The Hub

    What I desperately miss about the book industry’s best annual gathering.

    By Jonny Diamond  February 19, 2021
    Libraries

    Getting Lost in the Libraries of Paris Researching WWII

    By Janet Skeslien Charles  February 19, 2021
    The Hub

    A library staffer has been fired for burning Trump and Ann Coulter books in his free time.

    By Walker Caplan  February 17, 2021
    African American History

    How the Schomburg Center Became a Cultural Beacon and Harlem’s Literary Sanctuary

    By Kevin Young  February 17, 2021
    The Hub

    No, Beinecke Library is not specially designed to suffocate humans in the event of a fire.

    By Walker Caplan  February 16, 2021
    Your Week in Virtual Book Events

    Your Week in Virtual Book Events, Feb. 15th to Feb. 21st

    By Kiki Nicole  February 15, 2021
    Children's Literature

    A Utah school district says a book about a transgender boy is “inappropriate,” and we have questions.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  February 12, 2021
    The Hub

    This month, Frederick Douglass’s papers will be made available to the public.

    By Walker Caplan  February 11, 2021
    The Hub

    This North Carolina indie bookstore just got a Super Bowl-sized publicity boost.

    By Dan Sheehan  February 8, 2021
    Your Week in Virtual Book Events

    Your Week in Virtual Book Events, Feb. 8th to Feb. 14th

    By Kiki Nicole  February 8, 2021
    The Hub

    Furloughed Waterstones booksellers are petitioning their hedge fund owner for minimum wage.

    By Walker Caplan  February 3, 2021
    Religion

    How Istanbul’s Literature House Bridges a Divide in Contemporary Turkey

    By Jan-Peter Westad  February 3, 2021
    The Hub

    A 68-year-old man has been banned from his local library for sharing an anti-Trump poem.

    By Walker Caplan  February 1, 2021
    Your Week in Virtual Book Events

    Your Week in Virtual Book Events, Feb. 1st to Feb. 7th

    By Kiki Nicole  February 1, 2021
    The Hub

    This Turkish library is shaped like a shelf of giant books.

    By Walker Caplan  January 29, 2021
    The Literary Life

    Paul Yamazaki on Fifty Years of Bookselling at City Lights

    By The Literary Life  January 29, 2021
    The Hub

    Take a look at China’s first 3D-printed concrete bookstore.

    By Walker Caplan  January 28, 2021
    Bookselling

    Of Progressive Bookselling,
    Past and Future

    By Lucy Kogler  January 26, 2021
    The Hub

    Behold these cute phone booth libraries from around the world.

    By Dan Sheehan  January 25, 2021
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