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For Libraries, the "Customer is Always Right" Might Be Wrong

Kristen Arnett: Hard Lessons Learned from the Front Desk

By Kristen Arnett | May 2, 2018

Celeste Ng: Bookstores Are the Center of the Literary Ecosystem

Celeste Ng: Bookstores Are the Center of the Literary Ecosystem

In Conversation with this Year's Ambassador for Independent Bookstore Day

By Literary Hub | April 27, 2018

Interview with a Bookstore: City of Asylum Books

Interview with a Bookstore: City of Asylum Books

The Pittsburgh Bookstore Dedicated to International Literature

By Interview with a Bookstore | April 20, 2018

Essential DIY Tips for Surviving Slashed Library Budgets

Essential DIY Tips for Surviving Slashed Library Budgets

Kristen Arnett Finds (Figurative) Gems in the Trash

By Kristen Arnett | April 18, 2018

Writing About the Oldest Oral Library in Australia

Writing About the Oldest Oral Library in Australia

How Bruce Chatwin Popularized—and Misrepresented—the Arrernte People

By Stuart Kells | April 12, 2018

Are You Pregnant? Can I Have Some Creamer? And Other Questions I Get at the Library

Are You Pregnant? Can I Have Some Creamer? And Other Questions I Get at the Library

Kristen Arnett is Back with More Tales from the Library

By Kristen Arnett | April 4, 2018

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  • Mexico: A 500-Year History

The Life We Could Have Had Running a Parisian Bookstore

By Liam Callanan | April 3, 2018

France's Beloved Short Story Dispensers Are Coming to America

By Matt Grant | April 2, 2018

How to Make Bookstore Appearances Ten Times More Interesting

By Craig Terlson | March 28, 2018

The World's Smallest Publishing House: A Typewriter in a Bookstore

The World's Smallest Publishing House: A Typewriter in a Bookstore

Michael Gustafson on Opening Literati Bookstore

By Michael Gustafson | March 27, 2018

Interview with a Bookstore: Café Con Libros

Interview with a Bookstore: Café Con Libros

A New Feminist Community Bookstore in Brooklyn

By Interview with a Bookstore | March 23, 2018

What Exactly Does a Librarian Do? Everything.

What Exactly Does a Librarian Do? Everything.

Introducing a New Column by Kristen Arnett

By Kristen Arnett | March 21, 2018

When a Bookstore Stands Against Censorship

When a Bookstore Stands Against Censorship

Rachel Kaplan on Why We Need Queer Books

By Rachel Kaplan | March 19, 2018

The 10 Most Famous Bookstores in the World

The 10 Most Famous Bookstores in the World

For Dedicated Tourists Who Also Want to Buy Books

By Emily Temple | March 15, 2018

Why is a Harvard Business Professor Studying Independent Bookstores?

Why is a Harvard Business Professor Studying Independent Bookstores?

Maxwell Neely-Cohen Talks to Organizational Ethnographer Ryan Raffaelli

By Maxwell Neely-Cohen | March 9, 2018

Interview with a Bookstore: Michigan's McLean and Eakin

Interview with a Bookstore: Michigan's McLean and Eakin

Literary Community in Petoskey

By Interview with a Bookstore | February 23, 2018

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