• Bookstores and Libraries

    Record Stores

    Why a Small-Town Record Store in Rural Pennsylvania Was My First Library

    By Jolene McIlwain  May 18, 2023
    Marriage

    Kelly McMasters on Starting a Bookstore to Save Her Marriage

    By Kelly McMasters  May 9, 2023
    The Hub

    Chinese man builds bookstore on a mountaintop. Yes, he’s a poet.

    By Jonny Diamond  May 8, 2023
    Bookstores

    Meet the owners of the newest bookstore in Brooklyn.

    By Emily Firetog  May 8, 2023
    Book Collection

    Libraries and Loss: How Our Books (Don’t) Travel With Us

    By Nasser Al-Dhafiri and Nashwa Nasreldin  May 8, 2023
    The Hub

    This Alaska bookstore in Sarah Palin’s hometown isn’t backing down about its drag story time.

    By Jonny Diamond  May 4, 2023
    Bookstores

    10 of the Best Indie Bookstores in the World

    By Emily Temple  April 28, 2023
    The Hub

    If he were alive today, would former librarian Mao Zedong be a men’s rights YouTube star?

    By Jonny Diamond  April 25, 2023
    The Hub

    Moronic anti-LGBTQ bullies kicked out of Barnes and Noble.

    By Jonny Diamond  April 20, 2023
    Librarians

    The Reader is the Only Place That Matters: On the Metaphysical Space Within Literature

    By Blair Austin  April 10, 2023
    The Hub

    Heroic DC library staff trolls all-star conservative story hour with LGBTQ display.

    By Jonny Diamond  March 30, 2023
    The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan

    Readings and Conversation with the NBF 2022 5 Under 35 Honorees

    By The Literary Life  March 17, 2023
    Just the Right Book

    Just the Right Book: What We’re Excited About This Week

    By Just the Right Book   March 16, 2023
    The Hub

    The FBI is spying on a Chicago bookstore because it’s hosting “extremists.”

    By Jonny Diamond  March 15, 2023
    The Hub

    In a surprise to no one, Gen Z prefers printed books over e-books.

    By Jonny Diamond  March 14, 2023
    Booksellers

    An Unstandardized, Decentralized Carnival Fire: How Rare Books Are Cataloged

    By Oliver Darkshire  March 14, 2023
    AWP

    72 Hours in Seattle: Where to Eat, Drink, and Visit During AWP 2023

    By Literary Hub  March 7, 2023
    Interview with an Indie Press

    Interview with an Indie Press: Catalyst Press

    By Katie Yee  March 3, 2023
    The Hub

    Judy Blume asks that you stop being so weird about what your kid reads.

    By Janet Manley  March 1, 2023
    The Hub

    The Kirk Cameron-drag queen story hour cage match is officially on.

    By Janet Manley  February 27, 2023
    The Hub

    Chip Gaines bought Larry McMurtry’s legendary bookstore to… fix up, we hope?

    By Janet Manley  February 23, 2023
    Reading

    How the Armed Services Editions Created a Nation of Readers

    By Brianna Labuskes  February 23, 2023
    Book Collection

    Book Stalls and Back Rooms: Traveling the World in Search of Literary Serendipity

    By Barry Yourgrau  February 15, 2023
    Love Stories

    Indie Booksellers Recommend 26 Books for Valentine’s Day

    By Katie Yee  February 14, 2023
    Remembrances

    Tom Verlaine was the Strand’s Best Customer

    By Colin Groundwater  February 7, 2023
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